The San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) is a private, independent Jewish day school currently located in the Carmel Valley community of San Diego, California. The school is composed of two schools: Golda Meir Lower School for grades K-5 and Maimonides Upper School for grades 6-12. SDJA also opened a Reggio-inspired preschool in 2011.
SDJA’s curriculum is based around Torah (study, learning) Avodah (worship, service) and Gemilut Hasidim (acts of loving kindness). As a pluralistic Jewish day school, SDJA is not affiliated with any one synagogue or movement of Judaism.
SDJA began as a small neighborhood school in rented facilities on the property of Congregation Tifereth Israel in 1979. In 1999, San Diego Jewish Academy built a 40-acre campus in Carmel Valley. The campus has expanded to 47 acres after a donation by Irving and Eleanor Jaffe of Boca Raton, Fla., 3 acres of which were turned into athletic fields. The campus also includes a newly built gym that opened in 1996.
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