The King David Schools
The children of our community attend the King David Schools in order to facilitate their personal growth, academically, emotionally, morally and Jewishly. The supreme value of King David is the maintenance of an atmosphere and an environment which facilitates these processes.

It is this environment which has made the name of the King David Schools synonymous with commitment to Jewish values and general excellence. The list of achievements both personal and of this school community are admirable and continue to reaffirm our justifiable pride in both the calibre of the learners as well as the staff of this fine school system.

These achievements go beyond the academic and flow into a wide range of activities, not least of which are the areas of Gemilut Chasadim for those who are challenged in so many areas, as well as the Education Development Programme which provides educational and social interaction with formerly disadvantaged schools. The commitment of our staff and the learners at our schools is an example to be emulated.

As we head into the new millennium and look back, we have much of which we can be proud. We confront the challenges of the future with confidence. The changes which both our community as well as the broader community must integrate will create a different society for those who are still growing in the system.

We know that the students of 1999 have been given the best that we could offer. We also know that the matric results will once again confirm our confidence in them. They have a proud tradition to follow.

Yeshiva College
Yeshiva's College's commitment to excellence through torah, coupled with its aim to instil in each of its 800-plus pupils a sense of identity, value and direction, has seen the school grow its pupil population within the South African Jewish community.

Principal Frank Samuel says the school, catering for pupils from play school through to matric, topped the 800 pupil mark in 1999 for the first time in its history, having risen from the 750 pupils registered at Yeshiva College in 1998.

The growth is ascribed to the school's excellent matric results and the warm, accepting environment it has succeeded in creating. Academically, Yeshiva College achieved 63 distinctions from 31 pupils in the 1998 IEB examinations.

In addition, the Yeshiva College environment helps pupils develop an abiding love for Hashem, His Torah, His people, and the Land of Israel. As a result, they emerge as young adults able to make choices, contribute to the betterment of society, and lead full, meaningful lives.

Shaarei Torah Primary School
Shaarei Torah was founded in 1978 by Mr and Mrs Yaakov Allison, beginning as a pre-grade with a mere 12 children in a house at 28 Frances Street.

In 1979 the Primary School was officially opened by Chief Rabbi B M Casper. It was created out of visionary zeal by the Allisons and others who shared their ideals so as to grant every Jewish child the maximum opportunity to grow up in its natural element - Torah - while at the same time securing a competitive general education.

The novelty of this school is that it provides the most intensive and comprehensive Jewish religious education ever offered in this country, with 4 hours a day, 5 days a week devoted exclusively to Jewish studies.

The high school has also recently become an official examination centre for Cambridge University in London, with twelve Std. 8 students studying the 0 and A level syllabus.

Shaarei Torah sees the development of moral character to be of equal if not of more importance in its educational priorities. Its teachers are drawn from those Yeshivot and teacher training seminars here and abroad which further the promotion of the ethical values espoused by the great Torah centres and communities in pre-war Lithuania.

In order to provide an optimum atmosphere for learning and individual attention, classes are limited in size with the ideal of around 15 children per class. There are remedial teachers who attend to individual children with learning problems during the course of the day, thus enabling the child to spend the major part of his time within the mainstream of school life.

The Torah Academy Schools
The Torah Academy is a truly communal school for all Jewish children, regardless of levels of observance. It comprises full Pre-School, Primary School, Boys' High School and separate Girls' High School.

Based on the highest Torah values and standards, it lives up to its motto of providing "EXCELLENCE IN JEWISH AND GENERAL STUDIES", with an excellent Torah education paralleled by first-class secular studies, sports and extra-mural activities. Emphasis is on sound academic grounding AND character development and personal growth, as well as nurturing communal responsibility and a commitment to a safe future in South Africa.

Academic achievement is high. The Torah Academy has achieved an annual 100% Matric pass rate with a disproportionately large number of distinctions in relation to class sizes. The school does extremely well in inter-school sporting competitions, and has reached first place in the Annual Bible Quiz for a number of years. Students go on to the finest Yeshivot and universities here and abroad.