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Research has shown that referrals are the best source of new students for Jewish day schools. But how do schools know if their parents are referrers? How can they judge their reputation within their parent body?
Rockwern Academy serves toddlers through sixth graders (and in some years seventh and eighth graders), and our enrollment is 215 this year. Founded in 1952, Rockwern is a community day school and the only non-Orthodox Jewish...
By Jonathan Posner Making Jewish day school education more affordable is a long-standing goal shared by day schools of all stripes across the US and Canada. In 2016, the Julia and Henry Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education...
By Rachelle Jagolinzer, Skip Carpowich, Zvi Weiss, and Keri Copans In 2018, San Diego Jewish Academy, a K-12 community school with an early childhood center, began a program to address affordability, a challenge faced by many...
Background In 2019, the Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford and the Hebrew High School of New England merged to create a vibrant, cornerstone K-12 Orthodox Jewish day school in West Hartford, Connecticut...
By Eric Amar Please allow me to start by saying that unless your school is in the highly enviable position of being able to fill almost every seat in every classroom with a full-paying student, this article applies to you! I...
The Covid pandemic has had a significant impact on Jewish day schools, increasing enrollment at some, forcing others into a virtual existence. It has also caused many schools to reexamine their tuition and fee structures...
This article is part of a series representing a partnership between JEIC and Prizmah. It grew out of a collaboration at the 2019 Prizmah Conference, where JEIC ran Listening Booths in which 52 participants shared their dream...
Our data suggests that well over one-third of Jewish day schools across North America offer some type of alternative or creative tuition program. An alternative or creative tuition program is defined as any tuition program...
Tell us your personal journey that led you to create your school. I was educated in a very traditional, Orthodox setting from kindergarten until I graduated high school. (Despite what my friends and kids assert, at no point...