How to apply

1
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
2
Take a tour

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

3
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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4
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
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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.
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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

Learn more about the Senesh Experience

The Senesh Experience