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To educate our children and the DKJA community to be knowledgeable and responsible citizens of the world, committed to Jewish values and lifelong learning.

Founded in 1922, Eaglebrook School is a boarding and day school for boys in the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. Eaglebrook has a diverse student body containing 280 students from 21 states and 21 countries. Eaglebrook's role is to help each boy come into full and confident possession of his innate talents, to improve the skills needed for the challenges of secondary school, and to establish values that will allow him to be a person who acts with thoughtfulness and humanity. Our vision is to help each student develop his unique gifts. Our mission is to meet children where they are in their development and to encourage them to build deserved self-confidence through success.

Founded in 1963, the East Harlem School educates middle school students from low-income families. The East Harlem School values teaching children who exhibit a desire to learn, and an eagerness to embrace new challenges. The School addresses the needs of the whole child by promoting intellectual, moral, aesthetic, and kinesthetic development. Through a rigorous curriculum that stresses interdisciplinary learning, skill acquisition, focused exploration, and cooperative learning, The East Harlem School instills confidence, skill, discipline, and moral accountability in its students. The school helps students develop academic excellence, moral integrity, courtesy, and an unshakeable commitment to their future and the fate of their community.

Founded in 1917, Eastern Mennonite School (EMS) joins with the home and church to call students into relationship with Jesus Christ for a lifetime of acquiring the knowledge, skills, compassionate attitudes and behaviors needed for serving the world community. As a Mennonite school, EMS combines an academically challenging curriculum with a strong commitment to Christian discipleship, peace and justice issues, service, and a global outlook. Regular activities are scheduled to help students grow spiritually as well as intellectually. In study, worship, and play, students are challenged to integrate faith with life - to learn and apply Biblical standards to life's decisions.

Since 1814, Emma Willard School has been one of the nation's leading college preparatory boarding and day schools for young women. At Emma Willard, every possible resource is dedicated to developing in students the values and skills that form the foundation of a life of accomplishment, leadership, and fulfillment. These include a love for the life of the mind, a commitment to service, courage and confidence, grace and creativity, and collaboration and friendship. Known for its rigor, the school promotes intellectual curiosity and disciplined study habits through a challenging curriculum distinguished by a wide array of advanced placement courses and electives.

The Ensworth School is a pre-first through twelfth grade, coeducational independent school. The School promotes academic excellence and inspires students to be intellectually curious, to use their talents to the fullest, to be people of integrity, and to be contributors to society. Ensworth School was chartered in 1958 and opened September 10 that year with 152 students in 8 grades and 10 teachers. Ensworth began the 2011-2012 school year with 1,053 students representing 48 zip codes and a faculty-staff of 200. There are 628 students in Grades P1-8 and 425 students in Grades 9-12.

Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS) was founded in 1878 by Felix Adler. His educational vision - to develop individuals who will be competent to change their environment to greater conformity with moral ideals - is as important today as it was when ECFS was founded. We continue to realize that vision by exploring what it means to be an ethical and responsible member of society, valuing inclusion and economic and racial diversity, striving for academic excellence, and teaching students to become independent thinkers through progressive education. ECFS provides educational instruction for approximately 1,670 students in various classes from pre-kindergarten through the twelfth grade. Our school challenges students to reach their highest potential in body, mind and spirit through the humanities, sciences, the arts and physical education.

The mission statement of the agency reads, "Based on the teachings of Christ, Children's Foundation of Mid-America provides compassionate and therapeutic social, psychological and educational services to children and families of all faiths." In response to the needs of hurting children and their families, it is our intention to continue to be creative in serving the needs of children who have been neglected or abused, or who are at risk. Children's Foundation wants to enable each child to become a strong contributing member of our society.

Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School is a kindergarten through eighth grade school founded in 1989. We are committed to promoting academic excellence, community responsibility, and vibrant Jewish living. As a community day school, Hausner serves families from a wide range of Jewish backgrounds and religious practices. Today we enroll close to 400 students and provide an exceptional education in science, math, history, literature, Jewish studies, Hebrew language, music, fine arts, sports, and technology. The academic excellence of our program is built on rigorous standards, exceptional faculty, and small student to teacher ratios.

- to provide a challenging academic program in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect, enhanced by caring, imaginative teachers and supportive parents, alumni and friends of the school; - to develop individual potential by promoting involvement in a broad range of academic and non-academic activities, in a nurturing environment characterized by close interaction between students, teachers, and a supporting staff; - to provide programs which stimulate curiosity, promote lifelong learning, emphasize process as well as content, and which value the importance of honor, personal integrity, responsible citizenship, and a respect for individual differences; and - to cultivate an appreciation for the broad ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious diversity of our school, community, nation and world.

The mission of Citizens Development Center is to empower men and women with disabilities to achieve their highest level of independence and employment.

After more than 100 years, these three values could ring hollow, but they are solid at Fessenden and continue to be our guiding principles. From the Headmaster down, boys are taught, guided and supported by a community united by these common and timeless values. Boys may lose their way at times, but with the consistent guidance and example that adults provide in their academic, social and emotional lives at Fessenden, they find their path and grow stronger from the journey. Fessenden aims to develop well-rounded citizens. Academics are valued, of course, but many boys find that in addition to academics they learned important life lessons during their time at Fessenden.