At the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan we challenge children to delve into important ideas, and support them in doing so. We are committed to helping all our children grow as "textpeople" - engaged learners whose knowledge, skills, and values develop hand in hand. Our children learn to love learning, to study deeply and to live life fully as Jews and as Americans.

Small classes, bilingual teachers working in teams, and an integrated, theme-based curriculum enrich students’ academic life, and also promote a wholesome social environment. We cultivate in our students the habit of reflecting on their studies, both secular and Jewish, as well as on their own growth and on the world around them.

Our children are surrounded by caring and kindness in school; they internalize these qualities and express them in the classroom community, as well as in their day-to-day relation to the larger community around them.

Our teachers are role models for the values we cultivate in our students: joy in learning, moral and religious sensitivity, and reflectiveness. Creating and sustaining a community of learners challenges and nurtures them as well, and has made our young school a magnet for excellent teachers. We are recognized nationally and internationally as an innovative source of best practices in Jewish day school education.

Finally, we are proud to make this education accessible to New York’s Jewish families through a unique need-blind admissions process, and through a sliding scale tuition-setting process that is confidential and respects every family’s dignity. Children learn menschlichkeit and love of Jewish values when their school models those same qualities. By doing so on every institutional level, we are building a precious resource for the entire Jewish community – one child, one teacher, one family at a time.