Learning together. For life. Learning together. For life.
BETH TFILOH DAHAN
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BETH TFILOH DAHAN
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Live Curiously
A s Baltimore’s premier Jewish private school, serving preschool through 12th grade, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School provides a learning environment where students become proud Jews, self-reliant scholars and discover their unique potential. Beth Tfiloh combines rigorous academics with character development
in a warm, caring and supportive environment that is rooted in Torah and Jewish values.
Our School Community
The Beth Tfiloh school community values academic rigor, intellectual curiosity, and personal integrity. Our outstanding
educators teach students to lead lives of purpose as global citizens and create positive change in the world. At Beth Tfiloh, we teach students how to advocate for themselves, ask difficult questions, and pursue their aspirations.
Our rigorous program and supportive learning environment prepare students for future success as self-reliant scholars.
Live Inclusively
The Beth Tfiloh community serves as a warm, caring and supportive family that fosters the strengths of each child.
Live Jewishly
youngest students. Committed to an educational philosophy of studentcentered learning, our curriculum prepares children for Kindergarten by encouraging them to exercise their curiosity and stretch their imaginations as they explore the world around them.
Lower School (Kindergarten-4th Grade)
Personalized Attention for Your Child’s Success
Small class sizes allow our teachers to provide our students with personalized attention and to nurture their talents and strengths. Our teachers are focused on preparing their students for future success. Furthermore, our unparalleled
individualized college guidance program ensures that 100% of BT seniors who apply to a four-year university get accepted to the one that is right for them.
PreSchool (Ages 2-4)
BT PreSchool celebrates and cultivates joy, discovery, and respect in our
Our Lower School children flourish in a joyful environment charged with the excitement of discovery and the love of learning. Small class sizes combined with the research-based Responsive Classroom curriculum, creates classroom communities where teachers can meet the academic needs of each individual student. That highly individualized learning experience fosters the intellectual skills and confidence students need to take thoughtful risks, ensuring their success in Middle School.
Live Creatively
Students pursue their creative interests and discover their unique potential through our award-winning arts program.
Our students celebrate the joy of Judaism while learning Jewish values and wisdom, and cultivating a love of Israel, the land, people and culture.
Live Innovatively
Middle School (Grades 5-8)
Our Middle School embraces the special energy unique to emerging adolescents. The curriculum supports students’ social and emotional growth while discovering new skills and talents to build a strong academic foundation for High School.
Our student athletes develop competitive skills and sportsmanship as valued members of a team.
High School (Grades 9-12)
Beth Tfiloh High School’s renowned college preparatory program offers students many opportunities for exploration, connection, and leadership— in the classroom, on the playing field, on stage, and in the community—as young men and women preparing for
the challenges of contemporary society. Graduates are fully prepared to continue studies at the finest colleges, universities, yeshivot, seminaries, and gap year programs—and to take their places as Jewish leaders committed to making the world a better place.
Live Actively
Our holistic STEM integration provides countless opportunities for developing solutions to tomorrow’s challenges.
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RIGOROUS ACADEMIC PROGRAM TO ENSURE YOUR CHILD’S SUCCESS
Licensed counselors in each school division provide
and a framework for each
A school-wide writing curriculum focuses on written expression, opinion and narrative writing, and the writing process from brainstorming through publishing. The reading program integrates more phonics instruction, helping children to learn reading skills in a systemic and sequential way.
The High School’s expansive curriculum includes 12 Advanced Placement courses and 54 honors classes to prepare students for college learning.
by the NUMBERS 17:1 Average class size 2,003 Alumni $3.6 million Annual financial aid awards Founded in 1941 40 interscholastic athletics teams including 2022 IAAM/MIAA softball, swimming, and golf champions 3 college guidance counselors who advocate for our seniors to each school where they apply 7 learning specialists on Lower School’s Academic Support team to provide support and enrichment services to every student in K-4 n 100% of seniors who applied were accepted at a university, college or Israel/gap year program of their choice n $4 million+ merit scholarships awards n 6 seniors received athletic scholarships Class of 2022PERSONALIZED,
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4 state-of-the-art STEM/Innovation Labs
cultivate students’ STEM mindset 169 current students have parents who graduated from BT High School
Learning together. For life.
BT instilled in me the principles of derech eretz, especially kindness, which I try to achieve in my professional and personal life.”
– Aviva Vogelstein Ghitman
Lawyer, with a special interest in civil rights and fighting antisemitism
BT Class of 2005
I think in a different environment at a different school, it’s unlikely I would have ended up where I am today. The most important part was probably BT embracing creativity and allowing me the kind of freedom that cultivated my own enthusiasm for learning and advancing science.”
–Dr. Ryan Sochol
Professor - University of Maryland, College Park
BT Class of 2001
The values of compassion, hard work, and gemilut chasadim, instilled in me throughout my years at BT, have been instrumental in shaping my career as a family law attorney.”
– Kelley Goldberg
Family Law Attorney
BT Class of 2004
BT made me ready for a diverse and challenging Jewish world and bigger world. BT gave me a love of Israel that eventually led to my aliya, some great role models, and at least a few lifetime friends who I am still in touch with.”
– Yonah Jeremy Bob Intelligence, terrorism and legal analyst for The Jerusalem Post and Foreign Affairs Lecturer
BT Class of 1996
My professional decisions are often guided by my Jewish identity. The inspiring and nurturing teachers at BT, who imbued Torah in expected and unexpected places, are largely responsible for shaping the Jewish lens through which I see the world as an adult.”
– Andrea Brem WolfCEO & Breast Cancer Prevention Advocate at The Brem Foundation
BT Class of 2001
BT was a school that felt like home, a nurturing place to grow ‘where everybody knows your name.’ It gave us the confidence and values to try to make a difference in the world.
– Avi MeyersteinAttorney and partner, Husch Blackwell LLP President and Founder, Alliance for Middle East Peace
BT Class of 1995
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