School Financial Health Report Card

How to read this: The pool here is Jewish day schools, and grades are relative rather than absolute: a school's score is its percentile rank against whichever comparison group is active (all 86 Jewish day schools, or narrowed to just Non-Orthodox or Orthodox), so grades shift as you change groups or weights. Click a grade chip above (or a segment of the bar) to see just that band. Operating margin, tuition discount, and enrollment trend are averaged over up to 3 years (2023–24 to 2025–26). The individual-school figures behind them (raw balance sheets, reported surplus or deficit, tuition-discount detail) are reconstructed here by hand from each school's public IRS Form 990 income and expense totals, archived filings, and school web sources rather than pulled from any single feed. Head-of-school tenure comes from IRS Form 990 filings (2017–2024), name-matched to the roster by hand for 25 of these 86 schools, so treat it as illustrative rather than comprehensive. Margolin Hebrew Academy and Kohelet Yeshiva High School are excluded because their public filings didn't include the financial totals needed to score them. Four rows with clear data-entry errors (donation or expense figures off by orders of magnitude) were also corrected using the same screens already documented in the HLM analysis file. Where a peer set of comparable independent schools was consulted, it served only as a secondary cross-reference.