FIRST LOOK: Shulamith’s new Inwood campus

The Shulamith School for Girls this week announced its purchase of a site in Inwood where it will open a new campus to house the entire school, nursery through grade 12.

The new campus — on Prospect Street between Doughby Boulevard and Alvin Place — is being designed by the Patchogue-based BBS Architects & Engineers. It will includes a performing arts center that seats over 400, gymnasiums, library/media centers, lecture laboratories for the sciences, small group instruction rooms for academic support, and early childhood classrooms that surround a two-story indoor playground.

The campus will be crafted in tandem with educational technology experts to enable cutting edge integration of technology in education, a Shulamith spokesperson said.  

The expanded hi-tech space will be coming online not a moment too soon. Shulamith is opening a high school next fall, completing the school’s nursery through 12th grade educational experience.  

Founded in Brooklyn in 1930, Shulamith is the oldest Orthodox girls school in North America. Shulamith’s Woodmere location, opened in 2000, became an independent entity four years ago. Today 546 students study in the Early Childhood, Lower and Middle Divisions at three different facilities in the Five Towns.

Work on the new site is expected to begin next spring.

For more information about Shulamith, contact Executive Director Rabbi Perry Tirschwell (rpt@shulamith.org).

Rederings by BBS Architecture