Politz Hebrew Academy vs. Shaare Shamayim Preschool And Kindergarten
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School Overview
Top Rankings
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Overview
Politz Hebrew Academy is dedicated to providing a quality Orthodox Jewish Day School education to students in grades Nursery through 8th.
The academic, social and emotional well-being of each student is developed in a secure and nurturing environment.
As the Academy grows, we are determined to maintain its special atmosphere.
It is this warm and caring environment that is one of the many positive aspects of the Academy.
Each student is number one. The Academy seeks to help each student realize his or her potential.
Effective education can exist only in an environment where students, parents, faculty and administration create and maintain open lines of communication.
Our entire staff is prepared to assist you in all matters concerning the education and progress of your children.
Congregations of Shaare Shamayim offers comprehensive preschool and kindergarten programs in Northeast Philadelphia.
Our program is committed to providing a highly regarded educational foundation while combining life skills and values to ensure a smooth, easy, and successful transition to elementary school.
Our program emphasizes the development of the “whole child” by recognizing the need for allowing each child to develop intellectually, socially, emotionally, and physically at their own pace.
We encourage the development of life skills such as sharing, personal responsibility, positive interactions, respecting rights of others, and conflict resolution, which are formed and developed during these years.
We are instilling valuable Jewish values as we teach our children that they can help to heal the world one good deed at a time.
Our goal is to accomplish all of the above in a warm, supportive, accepting, safe, nurturing, and stimulating educational environment.
Our staff of dedicated and experienced teaching professionals has been carefully selected to meet the individual needs of young children.
Grades Offered
K-8
K-K
Blue Ribbon School
No
No
Offers Post-Graduate Year
No
Yes
Learning Difference Programs
Yes
Yes
Learning Programs Supported
Special Needs/Resource Department
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Year Founded
1982
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Students Body
Total Students
396 students
8 students
Student Body Type
Co-ed
Co-ed
% Students of Color
3%
38%
Students by Grade
Students by Grade
Kindergarten Students
45
8
Grade 1 Students
48
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Grade 2 Students
37
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Grade 3 Students
41
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Grade 4 Students
50
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Grade 5 Students
46
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Grade 6 Students
41
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Grade 7 Students
39
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Grade 8 Students
49
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Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers
27 teachers
1 teacher
Average Class Size
28
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Teacher : Student Ratio
1:15
1:8
Classroom Dress Code
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Casual
Finances and Admission
Admission Deadline
None / Rolling
None / Rolling
Admissions Director
Besie Katz
Sherri Herschfeld
Admissions Associate
Marsha Konell
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Extracurriculars
Total Extra-curric.Total Extracurriculars
2
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Extra-curric.Extracurriculars
Girls' Basketball, Sports Club
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