Ramaz School ישיבת רמז |
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60 East 78th Street (Upper School) 114 East 85th Street (Middle School) 125 East 85th Street (Lower School) New York City, New York United States |
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Type | Private coeducational Jewish Day School |
Religious affiliation(s) | Modern Orthodox Judaism |
Established | 1937 |
Founder | Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein |
Principal | Rabbi Haskel Lookstein |
Head of school | Rabbi Eric Grossman |
Faculty | 325 |
Grades | Nursery-12 |
Gender | Coeducational |
Enrollment | 1150 |
Schedule | Day |
Campus type | Urban |
Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
Athletics conference | Yeshiva Athletic League |
Mascot | The Ramaz Ram |
Team name | The Ramaz Rams |
Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, New York State Association of Independent Schools |
Newspaper | Rampage |
Yearbook | Ramifications |
Website | ramaz.org |
The Ramaz School is a coeducational Jewish Modern Orthodox Day School, which offers a dual curriculum of general studies taught in English and Judaic studies taught in Hebrew. The school is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It consists of an early childhood center (nursery-kindergarten), a lower school (1st-4th grade), a middle school (5th-8th grade), and an upper school (9th-12th grade).
The Ramaz Upper School is a college preparatory program, designed to develop an appreciation for and understanding of the intellectual disciplines that are part of western civilization. The Judaic studies curriculum provides an equally rigorous program through which the religious and cultural tradition of Judaism is both taught and experienced. It is located on East 78th Street, seven city blocks (0.5 km) away from the other two school buildings, located on East 85th Street. Approximately fifty percent of the Upper School student body advances from the Middle School, as well as daily commuters from Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester, and Nassau counties in New York; Stamford and New Haven in Connecticut; from all over metropolitan New Jersey; and on a weekly or longer basis from more distant communities.
Ramaz was founded in 1937 and is affiliated with Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun ("KJ"), a synagogue located on East 85th Street, which shares a building with the lower school and is across the street from the middle school. The congregation and its rabbi, Joseph Lookstein, helped to found and finance the school.