Donna Klein Jewish Academy

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Donna Klein Jewish Academy is a diverse and close-knit community of families across the spectrum of Jewish denominations with a shared commitment to Jewish identity, heritage, and values. The school is located within the vibrant, 100-acre campus of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. The largest Jewish campus in the country, safety concern, is paramount with 24-hour security.

Students thrive in a nurturing environment where everyone knows and supports one another. New students make friends quickly. The traditional and contemporary not only co-exist but complement each other on a campus where a strong sense of community and deep respect for diversity buoys spirits and focuses on education. Daily life revolves around family-centered values and the celebration of traditions among the generations: L'Dor V' dor, Shabbat, Tefillah, lifecycle ceremonies, cultural performances, and community service. Parents have welcomed partners in their child's education, and faculty provides a watchful continuum of care between school and home. The DKJA family comes together as one in a culture of intellectual honesty, kindness, and Tikkun Olam — the commitment to social action and pursuit of social justice — that translates to the larger world.

Our mission is to educate our children and the Donna Klein Jewish Academy community to be knowledgeable and responsible citizens of the world, committed to Jewish values and lifelong learning. Our values:

• DKJA is committed to each student knowing the history, traditions, and values of the Jewish people, literate and conversant with our texts and ideas, and being deeply identified with Klal Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael. We are dedicated to motivating our students to maintain a deep and passionate lifelong engagement with Jewish life.
• Our diverse Jewish community strives to model the unity of the Jewish people. We seek ways to learn from those who hold different views and practices while, at the same time, recognizing and creating a community that understands we are ultimately one people.
• We are dedicated to the State of Israel, the Land of Israel, and the People of Israel. Through classes, speakers, conversations, and experiences, we instill in our students a love for Israel and recognize its centrality in the past, present, and future of the Jewish people.
• Formal and experiential Jewish education is at the core of our Judaism at DKJA, sparking a fire within our students to appreciate and build committed Jewish lives, expressing one's identity through practice and acts of kindness and leadership.

Donna Klein Jewish Academy is a community of commitment, bonded by a love of knowledge and learning joy. Here, a dual curriculum of college preparatory academics and Judaic Studies ensures a level of academic rigor and achievement that few other schools can match. The comprehensive K-12 program offers something rare: a 21st-century education founded in centuries of wisdom and tradition. Teachers are the heart and soul of the DKJA experience. Caring and talented, they provide a deliberate balance of challenge and support, inspiration and discipline, setting high expectations, and providing the assistance needed to achieve students' goals.

The school's STEAM-powered curriculum includes Honors, AP, and advanced college-level courses, including pre-med, pre-law, and engineering programs in High School. Integrated classroom technology and innovative teaching methodologies provide a state-of-the-art learning experience. A broad range of hands-on and immersive learning experiences at every grade level provides the relevant context that transforms classroom knowledge into real-world skills.

DKJA also is the only Jewish Community Day School in the world to have earned certification as a FranklinCovey Leader In Me Lighthouse School. In Kindergarten, this renowned leadership program equips DKJA students with critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and executive functioning skills that are the hallmarks of high achievers.

As a testament to the school's high academic standards, DKJA graduates consistently gain admission to the country's most prestigious colleges and universities and go on to rank among a "Who is Who" of Jewish leaders around the world. College acceptances include Amherst College, Brandeis, Columbia University Jewish Theological Seminary, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, NYU Stern School of Business, Princeton, Tel Aviv University, Vanderbilt, and many other fine educational institutions.

Students explore their passions and develop their talents through the arts, athletics, clubs, community service, and Shomrei HaAdamah, our school-wide environmental science project. Donna Klein Jewish Academy offers an after-school program filled with engineering, cooking, dance, debate, Minecraft, and chess. Fine arts programs encourage lifelong engagement with music, art, and theater. A competitive sports program fosters the values of discipline, commitment, and teamwork. Our students participate in national and state competitions, including Lego League, Haifa Teen Tech, SourceAmerica Design Challenge: Designing Technology So Everyone Can Work, VEX Robotic Competitions, and Chidon Hatanach (International Bible Quiz). At DKJA, individuality is celebrated. Students have the chance to discover who they are and gain self-esteem and confidence that comes from personal achievement.

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