Kehillah Jewish High School

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Kehillah Jewish High School
Address
Kehillah Jewish High School
3900 Fabian Way

Palo Alto
,
California

United States
Coordinates 37°25′30″N122°06′16″W / 37.4249°N 122.1045°W / 37.4249; -122.1045
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TypeIndependent Coeducational Secondary
Established1999
Head of schoolDaisy Pellant
Teaching staff38.5 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades9–12 [1]
Number of students216 [1]  (2017–18)
Student to teacher ratio5.6 [1]
Campus Suburban
Affiliation Jewish
Website kehillah.org

Kehillah Jewish High School is an independent college preparatory high school located in Palo Alto, California. "Kehillah" is a Hebrew word meaning "community." The school is one of a series of pluralistic (community) Jewish day schools in the United States at the high school level.

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In the fall of 2005, the school moved from its original location in San Jose to its new campus at 3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, where it also hosted the Keddem Congregation (Reconstructionist Judaism) for several years.

Kehillah Jewish High School was founded in 1999 and opened in the fall of 2002 on the Blackford High School campus in San Jose with 32 9th grade students. Rabbi Reuven Greenvald joined Kehillah as its Head of School in the summer of 2004 and left in March 2007. He was replaced by Lillian Howard, who most recently served as the founding Head of School of the Shoshana S. Cardin School in Baltimore, Maryland. Upon Lillian Howard's retirement in June 2013, Rabbi Darren Kleinberg, Ph.D. became the Head of School. Rabbi Darren Kleinberg, Ph.D. left in the end of the 2019-2020 school year. During the 2020-2021 school year, Dr. Daisy Pellant became the new Head of the School. [2]

Since 2002, Kehillah Jewish High School has grown from a 9th-grade class of 33 students to a community of approximately 220 students in grades 9-12. The school experienced multiple years of double-digit enrollment growth. In 2016 Kehillah was described as the fastest-growing Jewish community high school in North America by Marc Kramer, co-executive director of Ravsak, a national Jewish community day school network. [3]

In addition to American students, Kehillah has a large Israeli student population. Students’ first languages include Russian, Hebrew, Spanish, and French as well as English. They live as far south as Morgan Hill, as far north as Burlingame, and as far east as Castro Valley and Fremont. Approximately half attended public school through 8th grade, and the other half attended private and public middle schools.

Campus

The new 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) campus at 3900 Fabian Way in Palo Alto, California was completed for the 2005–2006 academic year. It is situated across the street from the recently opened Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life, [4] a new development for the Palo Alto JCC and the senior home. The facility was originally constructed in 1997, and was extensively remodeled in 2005. The building includes 27 classrooms, four tutorial rooms, high-end physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science laboratories, music and art rooms, a photo lab, a makerspace, a library and assembly space, student and faculty work and meeting spaces, faculty and administrative office clusters, and a Beit Midrash – a room for prayer and study. Each teaching space is equipped with extensive electronic media and SMARTBoard technology. The campus was most recently renovated in the summer of 2016, during which the library, theater, and student learning center were redesigned. After the COVID-19 pandemic, in the summer of 2021, the campus was renovated again to remodel all classrooms. The library, student center, and hangout spaces were also redone to look and feel more inclusive.

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  2. ↑ "New Head of School". Kehillah Jewish High School. 2019-06-25. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  3. ↑ "Kehillah High sees big growth - j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California". J. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
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  5. ↑ "Alumni Spotting: Harris Mowbray's Philanthropic Efforts to Make Braille More Accessible".
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