History
The school opened in 1967 with 18 children at the Morristown Jewish Center in Morristown. The school opened its current facility in Randolph in September 1980. As of the 2009-10 school year (the latest year for which data is available from the National Center for Education Statistics), the school had 124 students in kindergarten through eighth grade (plus 94 students in pre-K, for a total enrollment of 218) and 15.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.1.
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