Our History

Yavneh Academy of Dallas was founded in 1992 by a group of involved parents and Jewish visionaries concerned by the diminishing population of the American Jewish community. Our founders wanted to provide their children with a superior, dynamic, combined Judaic and secular education.

The founders intended Yavneh’s educational mission to embrace a Torah, Maddah, U’medinah approach and to navigate the secular world with a moral compass based on Torah study with the ultimate aim of creating a vital, thinking, educated Jewish populace prepared to give back to the community.

The name Yavneh stands for Jewish continuity implemented through Jewish education and is connected historically with both the Yavneh learning center of antiquity as well as Yavneh Academy of Cologne, Germany, destroyed during the Shoah.

In just over 10 years, Yavneh has grown from 13 to more than 110 students, and the school’s facility has progressed from the one-room lodge located behind the Jewish Community Center of Dallas to one of the premier private school campuses in the nation – Schultz Rosenberg campus.

Click here to a view a timeline of our history.