At Community Day we are committed to helping each individual child excel in his or her studies, in spirituality, on the athletic field, and in the social arena. We know that children learn at different rates, in different styles, and from diverse strengths, and we build programs for children that help them grow from strength to strength.
Community Day's academic program is aligned with today's best practices in education. Students set high standards for themselves and are encouraged and guided to achieve their goals. Hebrew language and Judaic studies provide a rich context for learning in all subject areas.
We hold our children, our parents, and ourselves to high standards of derech eretz (conduct, respect, and manners). In a school where respect is valued, children learn to show respect, to earn respect, and to demand respect from others.
Our school motto is "making each day matter". It emerges from the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam (repair of the world), and the need and obligation each of us has to make this world a little better because we have passed through it. Community Day students know that what they do in their daily lives, in their studies, in their interactions with others, and for the good of the world around them, makes a difference and certainly does matter.
Located on seven wooded acres in the heart of Squirrel Hill, Community Day is Pittsburgh's only inclusive and pluralistic Jewish day school. It attracts Jewish students from across the religious spectrum; unaffiliated, Reconstructionist, Reform, Conservative and Orthodox families are all active members of our school community. The school, a beneficiary agency of the United Jewish Federation and a member of the Solomon Schechter Day School Association and the Pittsburgh Consortium of Independent Schools, is also accredited by the Pennsylvania Association of Private Academic Schools (PAPAS).
