Hillel Day School history

By 1960 it grew into a modern elementary day school with 51 students in kindergarten and three grades which combined Hebraic-religious and general studies under the spiritual influence of Conservative Judaism and Zionism.

By 1962, the year of its first 6th grade, the school became Hillel Academy of the North Shore, Inc.

By 1963, enrollment was 115 students in grades K–6.

Sometime around 1980 the ninth grade became the entry point for local public high schools, and enrollment to Hillel's ninth grade dropped.

In 1987, under the leadership of Doctor Bennett Solomon, Hillel built a new home on land leased from the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore in Marblehead.

In 1988, Hillel Day School held graduation exercises for its last graduating ninth grade class.

After months of hard work, their efforts paid off, and in September 1989 the Hillel Day School of Boca Raton opened its doors with 42 students.

In 2008, Hillel broke off the Schechter network and reestablished itself as a community (or, non-denominational) RAVSAK Jewish day school to better attract Reform and non-religious Jewish families.

In 2010, Hillel opened the Early Childhood Center, providing in its inaugural year full- and half-day programs for 69 pre-K students.

In March 2013, in its third year of operation, Hillel's ECC became the first licensed early childhood center or preschool in the Farmington or West Bloomfield area to receive a rating under the Michigan's "Great Start to Quality" program.

Our current Head of School, Amy Gold, began her tenure at Cohen Hillel Academy in 2015.

In January 2016 the school was officially named Katz Hillel Day School of Boca Raton.

Arthur J. Epstein with school leadership, 2017