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 New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. It enrolls 434 students from age 3 through 8th grade, has a staff count of 93 from both New York (state) and New Jersey.
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History
In 1973–74, the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County opened.
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, gaga pit, vegetable gardens and monarch butterfly sanctuary.
Administration
Head of School - Steve Freedman
Director of Education and Judaic Studies - Ricky Stamler-Goldberg*
Director of Student Learning - Liav Shapiro
Director of Early Childhood - Gena Khelemsky
School Psychologist - Ilana Kustanowitz
Director of Operations and Finance - Ronni Brenner
Director of Admissions - Charlotte Carter
Director of Institutional Advancement - Michelle Weinraub
Notable alumni
Jack Antonoff (born 1984), musician for the bands fun. and Bleachers
Dan Colen (born 1979), artist
Jeremy Feigenbaum
Dave Jeser (born 1977), television writer
Rob Kaminsky (born 1994), pitcher drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals with the 28th pick in the 2013 MLB Draft, made his major league debut in 2020
Ari Levine (born 1984), Grammy-nominated songwriter and record producer, one-third of the trio The Smeezingtons
Elijah Wolfson (born 1985), journalist and editorial director of TIME