Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle

The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle is the oldest community Jewish day school in the Pacific Northwest. Adopted in 2012, JDS's mission is "to provide an exceptional education that empowers Jewish children to be confident, wise, and compassionate upstanders who are committed to life-long learning and community stewardship." JDS offers an integrated curriculum of Judaic studies and general studies focusing on the "whole student," from Pre-Kindergarten to grade 8.HistoryJDS was founded in 1980 by a group of community leaders as the region's first Jewish community day school. Regardless of Jewish lineage, the school was founded with the intent of providing all students a dual education in Judaic studies and general studies. In the mid-1980s, JDS purchased a former Bellevue, Washington elementary school to establish its campus that it still occupies today.FacilitiesLocated in Bellevue, Washington in the Crossroads neighborhood, adjacent to Temple B'nai Torah, JDS is situated on a seven-acre campus just south of the Microsoft Main Campus. The campus includes educational facilities with learning space, a library, a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) athletic center, as well as a soccer and play field.CurriculumJDS's integrated curriculum focuses both on Judaic Studies and general studies and is "designed to encourage the development of the whole child." In addition, its curriculum envelopes a natural language acquisition program for Hebrew. By Grade 8, when students journey to Israel, all students are expected to be proficient.