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Atlanta Jewish Academy was created by the merger of Greenfield Hebrew Academy and Yeshiva Atlanta on July 1, 2014. The school is the first Infant through 12th grade Jewish day school in
Greater Atlanta Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Alpharetta, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the ...
. It previously had two campuses, the lower school located in
Sandy Springs Sandy Springs is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia and an inner ring suburb of Atlanta. The city's population was 108,080 at the 2020 census, making it Georgia's seventh-largest city. It is the site of several corporate headquarters, i ...
and the upper school located in
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. However, in August 2017, the upper school moved into a new building added on to the Sandy Springs location. Atlanta Jewish Academy is accredited by AdvancED (formerly SACS) and the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS). The first head of school was Rabbi Pinchos Hecht. The second head of school is Rabbi Ari Leubitz, who began his term on August 1, 2016.


See also

* History of the Jews in Atlanta


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* {{authority control Jewish schools in the United States Schools in Sandy Springs, Georgia Schools in DeKalb County, Georgia Modern Orthodox Jewish day schools in the United States Private K-12 schools in Sandy Springs, Georgia 2014 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Educational institutions established in 2014