Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Teaneck, New Jersey
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Private schools=== Teaneck is home to the Metropolitan Campus of [[Fairleigh Dickinson University]], which straddles the [[Hackensack River]] in Teaneck and [[Hackensack, New Jersey|Hackensack]]. The campus served 4,114 undergraduates and 2,350 graduate students.<ref>[http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=700 Metropolitan Campus > About the Campus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002172300/http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=700 |date=October 2, 2013 }}, [[Fairleigh Dickinson University]]. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref> Teaneck is also home to four private [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[Jewish day school]]s and/or high schools. Those schools include [[Torah Academy of Bergen County]] (for boys in grades 9–12)<ref>[http://www.tabc.org/about-tabc/index.aspx About TABC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030858/http://www.tabc.org/about-tabc/index.aspx |date=2013-12-19 }}, [[Torah Academy of Bergen County]]. Accessed December 18, 2013.</ref> which completed an $8 million expansion project at the start of the 2013–2014 school year that doubled the size of the school, adding new classrooms and an additional gym to accommodate the record enrollment of 293 students, with room for expansion for the several years ahead.<ref>Schwartz, Bracha. [http://jewishlinkbc.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=698%3Atabc-doubling-in-size&Itemid=562 "Tabc Doubling In Size"], ''The Jewish Link of Bergen County'', May 2, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2013. "When the students of Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC) start the 2013–14 school year, they will enter a building that doubled in size over the summer.... The cost is estimated at $8 million and $2.6 million has been raised."</ref><ref>Schwartz, Bracha. [http://www.jewishlinkbc.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=2075%3Atabc-chanukat-habayit-in-time-for-chanukah&Itemid=562 "TABC Chanukat HaBayit in Time For Chanukah"], ''The Jewish Link of Bergen County'', November 28, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2013.</ref> The [[SINAI Special Needs Institute]], a school specializing in the education of students with [[Learning disability|learning disabilities]] and other [[special needs]], is hosted in the same building.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Palmer |first=Joanne |date=Nov 17, 2016 |title=Sinai to open new school |url=https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/sinai-to-open-new-school/ |website=Jewish Standard}}</ref> [[Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School]], located on the same section of Palisade Avenue, serves girls in grades 9–12.<ref>[http://www.maayanot.org/ Welcome], [[Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School]]. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref> In 2016, Yeshivat He'atid, a private K–8 Jewish day school, moved from Bergenfield to Teaneck, taking over an empty [[data center]] building near TABC and Ma'ayanot.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pinzow |first=Anne Phyllis |title='Soft' Commercial Building Boom Hits Teaneck |url=http://jewishlinknj.com//community-news/8667-soft-commercial-building-boom-hits-teaneck |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=jewishlinknj.com |date=June 25, 2015 |language=en-GB}}</ref> The school employs a [[blended learning]] model.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kessler |first=E.J. |date=2018-03-14 |title=Embraced by low-tuition Jewish schools, 'blended learning' now catching on more widely |url=https://www.jta.org/2018/03/14/united-states/embraced-low-tuition-jewish-schools-blended-learning-now-catching-widely |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref> With enrollment growing from 116 to 600 students in under a decade, the school began an expansion project in 2021.<ref>Rosenberg, Michal. [https://jewishlink.news//community-news/44809-yeshivat-he-atid-looks-to-the-future "Yeshivat He’Atid Looks to the Future"], ''Jewish Link'', July 1, 2021. Accessed June 2, 2022. "The school brought its novel approach to the Bergen County community in 2012, starting out with 116 students—just six classes—in a rented space in Bergenfield. When He’Atid moved into its new building five years ago, and Rav Tomer Ronen came in as head of school, that number had risen to 300 students. Now the school has doubled its numbers again, in just five years, to over 600 students and has graduated its second eighth-grade class this year."</ref> Yeshivas Heichal HaTorah, another high school, opened in September 2013 at the Teaneck Jewish Center with an initial enrollment of 17 students.<ref>Chasan, Aliza. [http://jewishlinkbc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1315:heichal-hatorah-joins-ranks-of-local-high-schools&catid=150:news&Itemid=562 "Heichal HaTorah Joins Ranks of Local High Schools"], ''The Jewish Link of Bergen County'', August 9, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2013. "Heichal HaTorah opens in Teaneck at the start of this upcoming academic year with 17 students who are making the most of it.... The school will be located in the Teaneck Jewish Center which is already outfitted with classrooms, laboratories, a gym and a pool."</ref> A post high school program, called Yeshivas Bais Mordechai (and formerly called Yeshiva Gedolah of Teaneck), opened in 2005 on Palisade Avenue.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neff |first=Andrew |date=2009-05-09 |title=From Bear Stearns to Bava Metzia |url=https://aish.com/48943781/ |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=Aish.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The Community School is a private school, founded in 1968 to serve the bright child with learning and attentional disabilities. Both the [[Community School, Teaneck, New Jersey|lower school]] and [[Community High School, Teaneck, New Jersey|high school]] are in Teaneck.<ref>[http://www.communityschool.k12.nj.us/pages/CommunitySchool_k12/About/facts Facts & Highlights], [[Community School, Teaneck, New Jersey]]. Accessed February 4, 2014.</ref> Teaneck was home to the [[Schechter Regional High School|Metropolitan Schechter High School]], a co-ed [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative Jew]]ish high school, which closed its doors in August 2007 due to fundraising problems.<ref>Spence, Rebecca. [http://www.forward.com/articles/11505/ "Families Mourn as School Abruptly Closes"], ''[[The Jewish Daily Forward]]'', August 29, 2007. Accessed August 29, 2007. "Less than two weeks before the Metropolitan Schechter High School in Teaneck, N.J., was set to begin the academic year, the board announced to a shocked audience of parents, teachers and students that the school had not met its fundraising goals and would therefore be forced close its doors for good."</ref> [[Al-Ghazaly High School]], a co-ed religious day school for [[seventh grade|seventh]] through [[twelfth grade]]s founded in 1984, was located on 441 North Street, serving the [[Muslim]] community from the greater Teaneck area. The school relocated to a larger facility in [[Wayne, New Jersey|Wayne]] and opened its doors to students in September 2013, with the Teaneck facility repurposed to serve students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade with the name of Academy of Greatness and Excellence, which is also an Islamic school.<ref>Burrow, Megan. [http://www.northjersey.com/news/221593581_Al-Ghazaly_Elementary_School_in_Teaneck_readies_for_opening.html "Al-Ghazaly Elementary School in Teaneck readies for opening"], ''Teaneck Suburbanite'', August 29, 2013. Accessed December 19, 2013. "Iman El-Dessouky, a board member at Al-Ghazaly School, said the change was precipitated when the school secured a bigger building for its high school students in Wayne.... Originally, El-Dessouky said, the school planned to use the Teaneck campus for pre-kindergarten through first grade students, but after the school held an open house for parents and prospective students earlier this month, the board decided to expand its offerings up to third grade."</ref><ref>[http://www.iefnj.org/OurSchools/AlGhazalyHighSchool/GeneralInformation.aspx Al-Ghazaly High School], The Islamic Education Foundation of New Jersey. Accessed December 19, 2013.</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Teaneck, New Jersey
(section)
Add topic