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Yavneh is named top non-selective state school

Five Jewish schools appear in the top seven in Sunday Times annual survey

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Yavneh College in Hertfordshire has been named as the top non-selective comprehensive in England by the Sunday Times.

Five Jewish secondaries appear in the leading 20 comprehensive and partially selective schools in the newspaper’s annual “Parent Power” survey this year.

Yavneh was fourth, JFS equal fifth Hasmonean High School for Boys seventh, Hasmonean High Schools for Girls at 11, and King David High School Manchester, 13.

But KD chairman Joshua Rowe noted that if only non-selective schools are counted, Yavneh comes first, JFS second, Hasmonean Boys fourth, Hasmonean Girls fifth and King David seventh.

Spencer Lewis, Yavneh’s executive head, said, “There are five Jewish schools in the top 20 which is something of which our entire community should be extremely proud.

PaJeS, the Jewish Leadership Council’s schools network, said it was “no small achievement” that so many community schools were so highly placed. Their performance was also “a reflection of the benefit the schools have gained through collaboration and communal support.”

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