They all get 10 points out of a possible 10. The secular school, Elmwood School, is an expensive private girls school in the heart of Ottawa's well-heeled Rockliffe Park. Students are screened on a highly competitive basis.
Students represent a wide range of abilities and backgrounds, and fees depend on ability to pay.
The school offers an applied-level curriculum, as well as the more academic advanced curriculum for those heading to university. According to the principal, course failures and dropouts are rare. And some become plumbers, and we are proud of them too. They are called to serve wherever God plants them. There are two teachers, including the principal, Rabbi Benjamin Porat, and students are taught Hebrew and the Talmud as well as an advanced academic, secular curriculum.