Welcome / Vision

New Community Jewish High School is a coed, 9th-12th grade college preparatory
Jewish day high school. Our vision may be summarized as “rigorous academics with
unrelenting support.” We combine advanced placement academics with advanced
placement kindness in a pluralistic Jewish learning environment. We are a community
where the Jewish souls of our students are nurtured with the same passion that fuels our
academic program. At the same time, we are a school that values treating students and
teachers with kindness.

At New Community Jewish High School, our academic program is on par with the nation’s
most prestigious independent high schools. Our academic excellence begins with hiring
teachers who possess deep knowledge of their subject, are at the cutting edge of their field,
who value imagination and creative thinking, and who understand, and frankly, love
teenagers. For us, “rigorous academics” means teaching kids how to analyze, synthesize,
and evaluate concepts, values, and knowledge. It means encouraging new ideas, new
thinking, invention, and imagination. It means an emphasis on self-discipline,
organizational skills, drive, and integrity. It means developing “respectful and inclusive
minds” with moral courage. It means engagement and leadership today and for the future.
Excellence includes literacy, numeracy, scientific method, and fluency in language.
Excellence means developing an empathic mind, creative play, and, ultimately, meaning
and purpose.

At New Community Jewish High School, our definition of “educational greatness” is not
measured by standardized test scores alone. Rather, it is measured by true success in life;
by how outstanding universities accept and value our graduates; by the creativity,
imagination, deeds, and moral actions of our students. Educational greatness is measured
by our children’s ability to celebrate, find joy, form lifelong relationships, work in teams, and
become agents of transformation in the “real world.” It is about being a good person.
The school’s motto, “Building community, one mind at a time,” reflects the value placed upon
the special gifts of each student. Moreover, the Hebrew motto of our community, livnot
kehillah, li v’leha, means “to build community, for the benefit of everyone.” New Community Jewish High School is a partnership involving faculty, students, and parents, and numerous community friends.

New Community Jewish High School is a school of the 21st century — a high school driven
by the most profound Jewish and American values. It is a school that strives for “greatness”
as defined by the wisdom and traditions of Jewish and world civilizations. New Community
Jewish High School’s mission is, perhaps, the most demanding of missions; our curriculum
demands excellence over a life-time; our “scores” are writ large within the souls of our
children, upon the history of the Jewish people, and within the great experiment of freedom
we call America.