Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County

Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County is a coeducational Jewish day school at 275 McKinley Avenue in New Milford, New Jersey, United States. The school is a member of the Conservative Jewish Movement and the Solomon Schechter Day School Association, as well as a school in the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.[1] It enrolls approximately 425 students from 3rd through 8th grade.

Campus entrance

History

Campus Garden

Campus

The school has an indoor basketball court with stage, fitness center, library, Holocaust Resource Room, Innovation lab with 3D printers, art and music rooms, computer lab, Beit Midrash, and kosher cafeteria. The campus also includes outdoor basketball courts, AstroTurf soccer fields, Ga-ga pit, vegetable gardens and monarch butterfly sanctuary. [2]

International Baccalaureate and Innovation Lab

In 2018, the school earned the status of being an International Baccalaureate World School for the Middle Years Program.[3] Becoming an IB school is an often rigorous process, and not many educational facilities can qualify. As of 2018, SSBC is the only Jewish school in the Northeast United States to have gained the IB status.[4][5]

Administration

  • Head of School - Ruth Gafni[6]
  • School Rabbi & Middle School Principal - Rabbi Fred Elias[7]
  • Director of Academic Affairs - Andrew Katz[7]
  • Early Childhood & Lower School Principal, Director of General Studies - Lauren Goldman-Brown[8]
  • Early Childhood & Lower School Principal, Director of Judaic Studies - Ricky Stamler-Goldberg[9]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ School Search Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Machine., New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Accessed July 29, 2008.
  2. ↑ https://www.ssdsbergen.org/prospective-parents/about/campus/
  3. ↑ "Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County". International Baccalaureate®. International Baccalaureate®.
  4. ↑ Taylor, Charlie (9 May 2018). "First New York Area Jewish School to Earn International Baccalaureate is a Solomon Schechter". The Times of Israel. Times of Israel.
  5. ↑ Palmer, Joanne (26 April 2018). "Books to Africa, IB to Schechter". Jewish Standard. Times of Israel. Jewish Standard.
  6. ↑ Palmer, Joanne (17 June 2016). "Schechter school takes on new framework". The Jewish Standard. TOI.
  7. ↑ Palmer, Joanne (7 August 2014). "Seeds of knowledge". Jewish Standard. TOI.
  8. ↑ Standard, Jewish (15 August 2011). "One of Israel's 10 most influential women visits Solomon Schechter Day School". Jewish Standard. TOI.
  9. ↑ Leichman, Joseph. "More powerful than a locomotive...", Jewish Standard, November 26, 2010. Accessed January 2, 2013. "Jack Antonoff of New Milford and Daniel Silbert of Tenafly first crossed paths in elementary school at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County in New Milford, where they also met Evan Winiker, whose family moved to Teaneck in time for him to begin the sixth grade at Schechter."
  10. ↑ Dan Colen
  11. ↑ Jewish Standard: "‘Drawn Together’ creators, from area, decry anti-Israel accusations" by Josh Lipowsky June 4, 2010
  12. ↑ http://www.newsweek.com/about-newsweek

Coordinates: 40°56′18″N 74°01′02″W / 40.938217°N 74.01726°W / 40.938217; -74.01726

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