SAR High School

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Salanter Akiba of Riverdale High School
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SAR High School
503 West 259th Street

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New York 10471

United States
Coordinates 40°54′26″N73°54′16″W / 40.90722°N 73.90444°W / 40.90722; -73.90444
Information
Type Private high school
MottoIt's not just what you learn, it's who you become
Established2003
LocaleResidential area
PrincipalRabbi Tully Harcsztark
Rabbi Jonathan Kroll
Faculty117.0 FTEs [1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment593 (as of 2019-2020) [1]
Student to teacher ratio4.6:1 [1]
Color(s)Black and yellow
  
Team nameSAR Sting
NewspaperThe Buzz
Website saracademy.org
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Logo of SAR High School

Salanter Akiba Riverdale High School (SAR High School) is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school located in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York. It was founded in 2003 by Rabbi Naftali (Tully) Harcsztark. The school is affiliated with SAR Academy, which is also in Riverdale.

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The high school's founding and current principal is Rabbi Tully Harcsztark. In fall 2019, previous assistant principal Rabbi Jonathan Kroll, returned to the school to serve as its Co-Principal.

As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 539 students and 121.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 4.45:1.

Extracurricular activities

Students have the opportunity to contribute to a wide variety of publications including Ruach Searah, the Dvar Torah newsletter; 'SAR Broadcasting club' where students learn how to work cameras how to set up a broadcasting setup and broadcast sting/games played at the school. The Buzz, the official school newspaper; Modern Affairs, the school's geopolitical and current events newspaper; The Science Journal; Math Mag, an award-winning publication[ citation needed ]; the literary journal, Euphrates; The Israel Activism Committee's HaOketz covering Israel current events; "House Divided", the first student-run publication dedicated to political and historical dialogue; SARcasm, the school satire magazine, and the Global Awareness and Action Committee's (GAAC) publication. Clubs include Model United Nations, Debate, Mock Trial, College Bowl, the Humanities Colloquium, and countless others. SAR also has many charity clubs, including the Cookies For A Cause Club, which has won multiple grants and awards[ citation needed ], including the Optimum Charity Champions grant in 2015. [2] In 2019, SAR's Economics Club won the National Championships in the Personal Finance Challenge, beating over 18,000 other students nationwide. [3]

In February 2021, The EPG (elections, politics, and governance) club held a town hall for the New York City mayoral election. Several candidates, including Andrew Yang, Eric Adams, and Maya Wiley, were in attendance. [4]

Sports

All of SAR's teams are members of the Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League, which is composed of many of the Jewish day schools throughout the New York metropolitan area.

SAR teams compete in baseball, softball, hockey, soccer, Swim, volleyball, basketball, track, tennis, and wrestling.

SAR's College Bowl team was featured in the 2012–2013 season of MSG Varsity's the Challenge. They were the Bronx/Brooklyn champions but lost in the following round[ citation needed ]. SAR also has a Fencing Team that competes once a year with other Jewish day schools.

History

The Salanter Akiba Riverdale (SAR) Academy was founded in 1969 with the merger of the Salanter Yeshiva, Akiba Hebrew Academy, and the Riverdale Hebrew Day School. In 2003, SAR High School was established. [5]

SAR High School is considered among the more liberal Orthodox day schools in the United States. [6] In 2013, the school granted permission for two female students to put on tefillin during morning prayers, becoming what was believed to be one of the first Orthodox schools to do so. [7] In 2014, the school created a yearlong Jewish Sexual Ethics course for 10th graders that combined Jewish textual study with comprehensive sex education. [6]

On Tuesday, March 3, 2020, an email was sent out to the SAR Academy and High School announcing that school would be closed due to a parent in the community having contracting COVID-19, becoming one of the first schools in the United States to close for the pandemic. [8] The parents of students were asked to remain calm while no other cases were reported. [9] The sister schools responded rapidly to the closing of classes. Within 24 hours, the schools had set up a plan for remote learning for their students, using the platform Zoom. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 School data for SAR High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 15, 2017.
  2. Boller, Annie (June 12, 2015). "SAR Academy High School Is New York City Grand-Prize Winnter In Optimum Community's Charity Champions Program". The Bronx Chronicle. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  3. Smith, Heather J. (June 2, 2019). "SAR students win national finance challenge". The Riverdale Press. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
  4. Brennan, Rose (February 28, 2021). "They're too young to vote, but they're old enough to care: Education, economy and life after COVID-19 among key forum topics". The Riverdale Press. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  5. Gonzalez, Izania (January 19, 2024). "SAR Academy to celebrate its 55th anniversary with gala". Riverdale Press . Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  6. 1 2 Friedman, Micole (May 8, 2024). "A Reform Orthodox high school wants to end taboos around sex education". Jewish Telegraphic Agency . Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  7. "NYC Orthodox High School Lets Girls Put On Tefillin". Jewish Press . January 20, 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  8. SAR, one of country’s first schools to close, celebrates Covid-19 'heroes' JTA. February 1, 2021.
  9. "Riverdale's SAR Academy closes due to connection to confirmed coronavirus case". News 12 Hudson Valley. March 3, 2020.
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