Admissions

How to apply

Submit an inquiry form

Help us get to know your family by filling out a form to tell us you’re interested in Senesh. A member of our team will reach out to you.

Inquiry Form

Take a tour

Every interested family will have a one-on-one tour and conversation with Dana Goldberg, the Director of Enrollment.

Apply

All the materials you’ll need for your application, including school transcripts and teacher reports, will be compiled online using our platform Ravenna.

Applications are due December 31. We accept rolling admissions when space allows.

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Schedule a student visit

Once we receive your application, we’ll schedule a visit that gives your child a feel for Senesh and helps us learn more about them.

Get to Know Senesh

Join a virtual open house

These events are held on Zoom and give you a chance to hear from our educational leadership to learn more about the school, curriculum, and more.

Lower School: October 15, 2024, 9:00-10:00am
Middle School: November 13, 2024, 6:00-7:00pm
All-School: December 5, 2024, 9:00-10:00am

Connect with our community

We offer a few ways for prospective families to get a sense of what Senesh is all about:

Connect with a Senesh family. Our admissions team will introduce prospective families to current Senesh parents and/or faculty to speak about the Senesh experience.
Come to a community-wide event. Senesh hosts programs that are open to the public and are specifically geared toward Jewish families with young children.

See Upcoming Events

Our commitment to diversity and belonging

As an open and inclusive Jewish day school in the heart of Brooklyn, we strive to provide an unparalleled, modern academic home that is committed to the rich diversity of Jewish life. Our core Jewish value of Openness/Elu v’Elu guides our work in building empathy, promoting tolerance, and valuing difference. We live this value daily at Senesh in our curriculum, programming, admissions, hiring, professional development, and dialogue with our broader community.

It is integral to our ongoing journey/Masa as a school to embrace the complex conversation of diversity in the 21st Century, which we believe will continue to make our school community even more vibrant and strong.

Tuition

Tuition for the 2024-25 school year for kindergarten through eighth grade is $41,750.

Additional Fees

Materials and trip fees are additional, which includes the cost of books, classroom material, field trips, and overnight trips for Middle School students (to Washington, D.C., TEVA Nature Camp, and Israel). In 2024-25, additional fees are:

Kindergarten-4th grade: $550
5th grade: $1600
6th grade: $1850
7th grade: $1950
8th grade: $2600

Financial Aid

We believe all families seeking a Jewish day school education should have access to one, even if tuition is a barrier. We’re pleased to offer tuition assistance for K-8 students based on demonstrated need. Today, more than half of Senesh families receive some tuition assistance. The Financial Aid Committee makes decisions based on demonstrated need, the school’s commitment to diversity, and the availability of funds.

Financial aid deadlines:

Current Senesh families: December 2, 2024
New Senesh applicants: Early January 2025
We will continue taking applications for families who apply late as long as funds are available.

Lower School Grants for Jews of Color

As we build the rich mosaic of Jewish life, we’re striving to increase the representation of Jews of Color who have been underrepresented in our community and who would find a warm and welcoming Jewish home at Senesh. With this in mind, we’ve established a grant to enable more Jews of Color to attend our lower school.

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Beyond Senesh

Graduates of Senesh have been accepted at top high schools and colleges across the country and internationally. Our excellent outplacement services help parents and students explore, simplify, and navigate the process of high school admissions and beyond.

High school acceptances

The Abraham Joshua Heschel School
Art and Design High School
Avenues: The World School
Bard High School Early College
Baruch College Campus High School
BASIS Independent Brooklyn
Bay Ridge Preparatory School
The Beacon School
The Berkeley Carroll School
Boerum Hill School for International Studies
The Brearley School
Bronx High School of Science
Brooklyn Collaborative Studies
Brooklyn Friends School
Brooklyn High School of the Arts
Brooklyn Latin School
Brooklyn Prospect Charter School
Brooklyn Technical High School
The Calhoun School
Choate Rosemary Hall
The Churchill School and Center
Cresskill High School
The Dalton School
Design Works High School
Dwight School
Edward R. Murrow High School
Essex Street Academy
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Performing Arts
Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School
Friends Seminary
Grace Church School
Harvest Collegiate High School
The Harley School
High School of American Studies at Lehman College
High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology
High School for Environmental Studies
High School for Fashion Industries
Horace Mann School
Hunter College High School
James Madison High School
Landmark High School
The Lawrenceville School
Leman Manhattan Preparatory School
Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences
The Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI)
Magen David Yeshivah
Manhattan/Hunter Science High School
Manhattan Village Academy
Midwood High School
Millennium Brooklyn High School
Millennium High School
NEST+m
Northport High School
North Shore Hebrew Academy
NYC iSchool
NYC Lab High School for Collaborative Studies
NYC Museum School
Pace University High School
The Packer Collegiate Institute
Pascack Hills High School
Phillips Exeter Academy
Poly Prep Country Day School
The Ramaz School
Rudolph Steiner School
St. Ann’s School
SAR Academy
School of the Future
Special Music School
Staten Island Technical High School
Stuyvesant High School
Townsend Harris High School
Trinity School
Yeshivah of Flatbush
York Preparatory
The Winchendon School

College acceptances

Bard College
Barnard College
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
City College of New York
Clark University
Colgate University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Delaware State University
DePaul University
Drew University
Drury University
Drexel University
Florida State University
Florida Gulf University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Goucher College
Harvard University
Haverford College
IDC Herzliya
Indiana University
Insper Institute of Education & Research
Ithaca College
Johnson & Wales University
Kingsborough Community College
King’s College London
Lafayette College
Lawrence University
Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College
The Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College
McGill University
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
New England Conservatory
New York University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Princeton University
Reed College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rollins College
Rutgers University
Sarah Lawrence College
Savannah College of Art & Design
Skidmore College
Stevens Institute of Technology
St. John’s University
State University of New York
Stony Brook University
Susquehanna University
Syracuse University
Trinity College
Tufts University
Tulane University
Union College
University of Albany
University of Arizona
University of Chicago
University of Hartford
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Vermont
University of Wisconsin
Vassar College
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Western University
Williams College
Yale University

Gap year acceptances

Aardvark Israel
Habonim Dror Shnat
Mechina Aderet
Mechina Beit Israel
Mechina Kol Ami
Mechinat Rabin
Midreshet Lindenbaum
Shalom Hartman Institute
Tivnu
Young Judaea

Specialized Programs

A Senesh education integrates the best of both Jewish and General Studies. We offer small-group programs to meet students where they are, no matter when in their school tenure they enter Senesh, or where they enter from.

Bridge Program

For students who join Senesh with limited background in Hebrew and Judaic studies, we offer small group learning to meet students where they are at in Hebrew language.

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Hebrew Heritage

For native Hebrew speakers, we offer a dedicated program designed to address their unique needs while instilling a love for the Hebrew language and Israeli culture.

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