Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls

Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls
Address
291 Meadowview Avenue
Hewlett Bay Park, NY, 11557
Coordinates 40°38′12″N 73°41′41″W / 40.63667°N 73.69472°WCoordinates: 40°38′12″N 73°41′41″W / 40.63667°N 73.69472°W
Information
Type Private secondary
Established 1992
NCES School ID A9503087[1]
Principal Helen G. Spirn
Faculty 32.6 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 360 (as of 2013-14)[1]
Student to teacher ratio 9.1:1[1]
Accreditation MSA
Website www.skahalb.org

Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school, a college preparatory high school for grades 9-12, located in Hewlett Bay Park in Nassau County, New York, United States. As of 2011 it had some 340 students and approximately 50 teachers. There are a total of 1,054 alumnae. The principal of 9th and 10th grade is Ms. Raizi Chechick, and the principal of 11th and 12th grade is Dr. Tzipora Meier. Head of school is currently Mrs. Helen Spirn.

As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 296 students and 32.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 9.1:1.[1]

The school is owned by the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach which purchased the former Lawrence Country Day School 9.2-acre (37,000 m2) campus in 1992 for $2.2 million. It aims for academic excellence both in the Limudei Kodesh (Torah studies) curriculum and in secular non-Jewish studies. The school is accredited by the New York State Board of Regents and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1999.[2] It was renamed for longtime resident Stella K. Abraham in 1994.

History

The Hebrew Academy's purchase of the site in affluent Hewlett Bay Park caused controversy when the village sought to acquire the property through eminent domain, leading to charges of anti-semitism and the filing of a $55.0 million civil rights lawsuit. After nearly two years, a compromise was reached allowing the school to operate but limiting its size and the suit was dropped at that time.

Awards and competitions

In 2001, two SKA seniors won the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse team science competition with their project entitled "A Viscometer for Ultra Thin Films". The students were subsequently named to 'Forbes magazine's High Tech Teenage All America Team[3] and were featured in the nanotechnology publication Small Times.[4]

Also, the school's mock trial team won the Long Island and NY State championship in 1998 beating over 500 teams that competed in local events.

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Search for Private Schools - School Detail for Stella K Abraham High School For Girls". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  2. ↑ Stella K. Abraham High School For Girls, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Accessed July 5, 2007.
  3. ↑ Boland, Michael, "ASAP Teenage All Stars", Forbes.com, March 25, 2002.
  4. ↑ Stuart, Candace, "Teen Inventors Earn Scholarship by making MEMS devices run better", SmallTimes.com, December 4, 2001

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