The Knapp School & Yeshiva is committed to creating opportunities for student success.
We offer a dynamic academic and enriching curriculum
- Foreign language for high-school students (Spanish and, for Yeshiva students, Hebrew)
- Extensive visual arts program (clay, pottery, charcoal, collage and more)
- Corrective reading program
- Resource Room for academic support
- Physical education program
- Driver’s education course
- Extended school year (a summer program that combines educational courses with recreational activities)
Student achievement is measured & documented
- Cumulative student academic evidence portfolio
- Midterm, quarterly and semester progress reports and report cards
- Mid-semester open house and parent-teacher conferences
- Quarterly clinical reports
When the bar is set high, our students respond
- Close to 15% of our students re-enter public schools each year (exceeding the CPS benchmark)
- About half of our high school students hold jobs in our in-school work program
- Nearly 30% of students are on the academic and attendance Honor Rolls
- Many students see boosts to their KTEA-II Reading Achievement Test Scores
- 87% of participating high school students improved total reading comprehension from 2014-15
- 95% of participating elementary students improved total reading comprehension from 2014-15