Blue Ribbon Jewish Day Schools Part II
Last week, I compiled a to-the-best-of-my-knowledge list of Jewish day schools that have received Department of Education Blue Ribbon awards *after* 2002. Here is the companion list, schools between 1982 and 2002. As with last week, I’m basing this list on school names alone; it’s easy to exclude schools with “Saint” in the name, but there are probably a couple Jewish day schools I missed. Please let me know if I have.
| School | City | State | Year |
| Beth Jacob High School of Denver | Denver | CO | 1984 |
| Yeshiva High School | Atlanta | GA | 1985 |
| Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Greater Miami Hebrew Academy | Miami Beach | FL | 1986 |
| Hebrew Academy of Atlanta | Atlanta | GA | 1986 |
| H.F. Epstein Hebrew Academy | St. Louis | MS | 1986 |
| Akiba Academy of Dallas | Dallas | TX | 1986 |
| Shulamith High School for Girls | Brooklyn | NY | 1987, 1993 |
| Bi-Cultural Day School | Stamford | CT | 1988 |
| Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School | Chicago | IL | 1988 |
| Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway | Lawrence | NY | 1988 |
| Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington | Silver Spring | MD | 1988, 1993 |
| Hillel Academy of Broome County | Binghamton | NY | 1988 |
| Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy | Bloomfield | CT | 1990 |
| Hebrew Academy of Atlantic City | Margate | NJ | 1990 |
| Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis | Indianapolis | IN | 1990, 1994 |
| San Diego Hebrew Day School | San Diego | CA | 1992 |
| Salanter Akiba Riverdale (SAR) Academy | Riverdale | NY | 1992 |
| Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy | Beverly Hills | CA | 1994 |
| Yeshiva of Central Queens | Flushing | NY | 1994 |
| Hebrew Academy | Westminster Huntington Beach | CA | 1997, 2003 |
| Tarbut V’Torah Community Day School | Irvine | CA | 1999 |
| Minneapolis Jewish Day School | Minneapolis | MN | 1999 |
| Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PA | 1999 |
| Merkaz Bnoz High School | Brooklyn | NY | 2000 |
| Beth Tfiloh Community School | Baltimore | MD | 2001 |
And so ends the PEJE Blog’s Blue Ribbon Week. Apply here for the 2010 award.
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Thanks for doing this!
Hebrew Academy (in Huntington Beach not Westminister) is a two time recipient of the Presidential Blue Ribbon.
One in 1997 and the other in 2003. On a side note, this year it also was awarded the highest WASC accredidation possible so reapplication won’t be again until 2015.
Thanks, please add The Epstein School located in Sandy Springs, GA:
http://www.epsteinatlanta.org/podium/default.aspx?t=17049
In 2004, The Epstein School was one of only three Jewish day schools in the nation to be honored as a 2004 Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.
In 2005, Epstein was identified as a US Department of Education Innovator.
Coleen – we have Epstein listed in our post-2002 list: http://www.peje.org/blog/?p=235