As Capital Campaign co-Chairman and as President, I have used these Updates to communicate with you about important events in our school's life. The Updates were meant not only to communicate news, but to keep us together as a family when events were at their most challenging. Today, as my term as President draws to a close, we are in a new phase of our school's development. There are still challenges, but happily, they are of a different nature, as we focus on both planning for our future and maximizing our resources to provide the finest education possible. Our future looks bright indeed.
Enrollment is at an all time high.
We are a strong, growing school, with finances made stable by a combination of tuition, extraordinary fund raising efforts, and Federation support. Our operating budget will be balanced for the second year in a row and we have no accumulated deficit or debt. We own our Northwood campus, without a mortgage, and have the pledges and commitments necessary to complete our lower school home. Our technological capabilities are as good as any school, public or private, and we are beginning to harness that capability to enhance both Judaic and secular education. And while we haven't yet settled on a location for our upper school, or raised the funds to pay for building one, we are ever mindful of that need.