The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy is a

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Yeshiva Day School located in

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. The Academy is dedicated towards developmental education and religious growth, for both boys and girls from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8. The affiliated

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serves students in grades nine through 12. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 673 students (plus 39 in PreK) and 110.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 6.1:1. The school's student body was 100% White.School data for Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy Rae Kushner Yeshiva

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Schooling

The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy seeks to instill in its students a love and commitment for the Torah of Israel, the People of Israel and the Land of Israel.Kushner Academy Mission Statement
, accessed July 2, 2006. The school houses a program of the

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, an organization dedicated to serving the educational, psychological and emotional needs of Jewish children and young adults. Children of below to above average intelligence with different degrees of learning disability, with a wide variety of behavioral characteristics are served, whose needs could not be addressed by traditional Jewish day school programs and curricula.

History

The school was founded by

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, named in honor of his father

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. In 2020, the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy was the recipient of $1–2 million dollars in

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Administration

Core members of the school's administration are * Rabbi Eliezer Rubin - Head of School * Jeremy Halpern and Dov Lando - co-presidents

References

External links

Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy WebsiteData for Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy

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