Gross Schechter Day School has been enriching young Jewish minds for over 25 years. Our success has led to phenomenal growth in the school's enrollment. In just four years, Schechter has grown from 275 to 333 students - our largest enrollment in history. Our state-of-the-art campus combines comfortable modern facilities and the latest technologies to enhance active learning and allow for the school's continued growth and advancement.
Schechter delivers the quality you would expect from a top-tier private school. Our students are repeated award-winners in regional and statewide math, science, engineering, English and geography competitions. Many of our graduates enter advanced programs in private and public high schools, become effective student leaders, and attend some of America's best colleges and universities. High school counselors and teachers at private and public high schools routinely commend the academic strength of Schechter graduates.
Schechter teachers participate on local and state curriculum committees, and some have been selected by the governor to serve on blue ribbon panels. They have won more community wide awards than any other day school faculty.
Each of our five educational administrators have an average of two master's degrees each and 20 years of experience and are well known and highly respected in the community.
We are also a strong community that brings families together for fun, learning and friendship. Our students and families feel connected to one another, as well as to the broader Schechter community. Our community is built from families from all walks of life.
Schechter is dedicated to providing an outstanding education in an engaging empowering environment where boys and girls learn and participate fully and equally.
Below is a short list of the major organizational beliefs and principles at the heart of Schechter that guide us in all that we do.
Our Core Values
- Conservative Jewish Thought and Practice
- Academic Rigor & Critical Thinking
- Caring Community
- Living Jewishly
- Commitment to Israel and the Jewish People
- Respect for the Individual
- Tolerance & Acceptance
- Egalitarianism
- Leadership
For more information about the school, please contact:
Rachel Gonsenhauser, Director of Admissions
(216) 763-1400, ext. 413
rgonsenhauser@grossschechter.org
History
Gross Schechter Day School is a member of the Solomon Schechter Day School Association (affiliated with the Conservative movement) that began about 80 years ago and now has about 79 member schools all across the United States and Canada.
The school began modestly in 1980 when it opened its doors as Solomon Schechter Day School of Cleveland with 15 students in kindergarten and grade one in classrooms at Congregation Beth Am in Cleveland Heights. As grades were added, the school outgrew the available rooms at Beth Am and moved to Greenview School in South Euclid where it prospered for several years. It grew to over 150 students in kindergarten through 8th grade.
When the local school system needed its building, Schechter moved to Park Synagogue and in 1992 to its immediate past location in the former Malvern School in Shaker Heights, where a preschool was added.
We opened our own new campus in Pepper Pike in August 2002 with 280 students. Today, Gross Schechter Day School remains a vibrant and growing community of 333 students with a bright future.
For more information about the school, please contact:
Rachel Gonsenhauser, Director of Admissions
(216) 763-1400, ext. 413
rgonsenhauser@grossschechter.org
