The Shefa School is a Jewish community day school in Manhattan that offers students with language-based learning disabilities a place to grow, thrive, and reach their full potential.

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Welcome Home

Shefa offers high-quality, research-based instruction for children with language-based learning disabilities that is seamlessly integrated with Jewish community. For students who have struggled to find a school where they can thrive, the search is finally over.

Our Program
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Shefa Center

The Shefa Center's professional development program empowers and equips Jewish educators. The Shefa Center as a resource, many more children will blossom and thrive in mainstream Jewish day schools.

Shefa Center
Youthful joy is evident as two girls, one with curly hair and the other with straight hair, share a moment of reading together amidst their peers.

Apply to Shefa

We are eager to welcome your family into ours and to provide a warm, nurturing, safe home for your child. We know how to empower these students to succeed. We are accepting applications for students entering grades K–7 for enrollment in September 2024.

Admissions

חֲנֹךְ‭ ‬לַנַּעַר‭ ‬עַל פִּי‭ ‬דַרְכּוֹ‭ ‬גַּם‭ ‬כִּי יַזְקִין‭ ‬לֹא יָסוּר‭ ‬מִמֶּנָּה‭.‬‭ ‬

“Teach a child according to their way, and even when they grow old, they will not depart from it.”

PROVERBS 22:6

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