South Peninsula Hebrew Day

read moreOur warm, welcoming and homey Early Childhood environment is designed to support the developmental needs of the children: Cognitive, Physical, and Social & Emotional. Through these areas of development children gain the lifelong skills needed to succeed in grade school and beyond. Our unique Kindergarten program balances Academic and Social & Emotional learning with Outdoor Education, Physical Education, Art, Computer Science, and Music. Building a strong foundation for literacy, numeracy and problem solving provides children with the keys to unlocking their potential and sets them on a path to success.

read moreWelcome to South Peninsula Hebrew Day School, a Jewish day school serving the areas of Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Palo Alto, Los Altos and San Jose. Founded nearly 40 years ago, SPHDS was the first school south of San Francisco to offer a program of excellence in both Jewish and General Studies. Since then, our community has grown in important ways. The Bay Area is now the third largest Jewish community in the United States. It is a home to Jews from many different backgrounds, traditions and countries of origin.

read moreThe mission of South Peninsula Hebrew Day School is to provide students with an excellent education in General and Judaic studies, and to instill in them Jewish values, and a love of Torah, the Jewish people and Israel. Founded in 1972, South Peninsula Hebrew Day School is a modern Orthodox institution that embraces the sophistication and multi-culturalism of the Bay Area while adhering to traditional Jewish observance. We participate actively in the Jewish Community Federation and belong to the Torah U'Mesorah organization.

read moreSchool should prepare your child to succeed in the real world, away from whiteboards and workbooks. In the real world, the ability to solve problems and negotiate relationships with integrity is more important than test scores or letter grades. That is the kind of education we wish that all children received in schools. Our commitment to preparing children to thrive is based upon a very special education program. At SPHDS, your child's education is different from anywhere else. We are committed to offering individual attention to each child within a classroom that is flexible, non-frontal and oriented to the effective use of small group instruction.

read moreSPHDS is committed to offering an exemplary Jewish education to all families. Awards of tuition assistance are subject to the availability of funds, therefore the school cannot guarantee aid or the level of aid repeated in subsequent years. SPHDS strives to provide assistance to the widest range of families. All scholarship offered by SPHDS are moral scholarships if granted a scholarship, the recipient has a future moral obligation to support the SPHDS Scholarship Fund to the best of their ability.

read moreOur physical education program represents a variety of activities, in which boys and girls acquire physical fitness, skills and socially desirable habits of good sportsmanship, teamwork, fair play and safety. Flag football, soccer, hockey, baseball and more are taught throughout the year. Students as young as kindergarten begin to learn skills to maintain healthy activity. Games and relays are used for the younger students to strengthen the same muscle groups that they will use as they grow older.