Baltimore Jewish Day Schools

The Krieger Schechter community congratulates the graduating Class of 2011. After years of embracing Derech Eretz, gaining a working knowledge of Torah and Talmud, mastering Hebrew, learning Spanish, studying for tests, writing research papers and essays, solving algebraic equations, experimenting with velocity and acceleration, and celebrating special events and holidays, our 8th grade students graduated on Thursday, June 3 at 7pm in the Chizuk Amuno Sanctuary.

We applaud their growth and acclaim their achievements. Along with their family and friends, the faculty and staff of Krieger Schechter are proud of these students, as individuals and as a class, and look forward to celebrating this milestone with them. The graduates will be attending a variety of highly competitive independent and public schools next year. Many of them will continue their Jewish education in day schools and Chizuk Amuno’s Netivon High School program.

Various studies reference the success of Jewish day school graduates in college.

A PEJE Day School Fact Sheet states as follows:

A 2007 study of day school alumni in college found that they excel academically no less

than private and public school alumni (using grade point averages as the basis of

comparison).

Graduates of day school choose their majors in roughly the same diversity as graduates of

private and public schools. They also pursue terminal degrees at about the same rate as

other students.

College students with any amount of day school education tend to be more involved with

political and social action groups than those without. They participate in athletics, the

performing arts, student government, and student media at roughly the same rates as

those without a day school background, are much more likely to be active in Hillel, and

are less likely to join fraternities and sororities.

For a list of college acceptances by graduates of Baltimore Jewish Day schools, see the listings by Beth Tfiloh and the Cardin School.