FAQ’s

Yes. Ezra Academy is accredited by the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools. Ezra is also a member of the Prizmah Jewish Day School Network.

Ezra provides financial assistance to approximately half of all families.

The student-to-teacher ratio is about 5:1. Small groupings and classes are very evident at Ezra. Most classes have 8-12 students.

Students are greeted each morning from 7:45 AM to 8:00 AM by head of school Tani Cohen-Fraade (himself an alumnus). The school day officially begins at 8:00 AM, and students are dismissed at 3:15 PM. In the winter months, students are dismissed at 2:30 PM on Fridays, since Shabbat begins early.

Ezra Academy draws students from a wide geographical area, including Bethany, Bridgeport, Cheshire, East Haven, Easton, Fairfield, Hamden, Madison, Milford, New Haven, Orange, Stratford, Trumbull, Westport, and Woodbridge.

Ezra Academy students have at least one Jewish parent, but our students are a mix of Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, Modern Orthodox, Orthodox, and unaffiliated, as well as the totally unclassifiable!

Quite the opposite. Our integrated curriculum gives students the best of all worlds. Jewish traditions such as collaborative text study and critical thinking infuse and improve our secular academics. Ezra students are tremendously successful in high school, college, and beyond.

While some of our families have strong Judaic backgrounds, many do not. Students enter at the appropriate level, and we’ve designed our curriculum so that all of our students succeed.

Students bring a dairy or pareve (non-meat and non-dairy) lunch to school. Traditionally, eighth-grade families provide a hot lunch two days per week, at an additional cost, to raise money for their students’ spring trip to Israel.

It simply means that all students, no matter their sex or gender, are given the same opportunities in the classroom, in the gym, on the playing field, and in the sanctuary.

At Ezra Academy, we provide a framework of Jewish values and living from which students engage the larger world. In recent years, we have had Jewish students of Asian and African heritage, of Israeli, American, Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi heritage, and of widely varying economic backgrounds. Although our students all have at least one Jewish parent, they are a very diverse group.

Beginning in kindergarten, students who live in Woodbridge are provided with busing at no cost. Families in Fairfield County are provided with bus service at an additional charge. Families have organized carpools to and from many towns and help one another out with rides whenever necessary.