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Headmaster Greeting

from Donald R. O'Quinn

Welcome to Yavneh Academy of Dallas, a co-educational college prep Jewish high school, which provides an outstanding educational experience in Judaic and general studies, taught from a Modern Orthodox perspective in a Modern Orthodox environment. Jewish students of all affiliations are welcome at Yavneh, regardless of their degree of observance. With small class sizes and a per-pupil expenditure exceeding $23,800, we are proud to
serve the Dallas Jewish community.

 

 


Our outstanding faculty enables us to offer superior Judaic and secular education to students. Our faculty’s accomplishments include:

  • Generally possessing master’s or doctoral degrees

  • Having an average of more than 15 years of high school classroom experience and more than 500 years of accumulated teaching experience

  • Receiving local, state, and national recognition for excellence in teaching college preparatory high school classes

  • Often training other teachers in local, state, and national programs and grading for the national AP examinations

  • Being certified in talented and gifted teaching and trained to work with special needs students

Yavneh students are encouraged to explore their strengths and talents and to develop skills necessary for a productive adult life. Some of our students’ accomplishments include:

  • Consistently exceeding an average score of 1850 on the SAT

  • Often becoming National Merit Scholars, including ten Commendees, seven Semi-Finalists and eight Scholars in the past ten years

  • Posting perfect scores on the SAT verbal and math sections

  • Being named AP Scholars for ten consecutive years

  • Serving as college leaders and receiving academic merit scholarships to leading universities and colleges, as well as yeshivot in Israel 

  • Being accepted by some of the finest colleges and universities in the world

 

 

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