Welcome to Hillel Academy of Dayton –
We are a school committed to student success within a caring Jewish community connected to the world!
We are dedicated to excellence in education and service to our students. We will develop your child's potential to become an independent, passionate learner grounded in Judaic values and ethics.
Our Mission
The purpose of Hillel Academy is to provide the opportunity for all Jewish children in Kindergarten through 6th grade, where possible, to receive an outstanding integrated Judaic and secular education. Hillel Academy provides a combination of dedicated staff, extraordinary focus, innovative curriculum, and instructional best practices to develop students with the academic and spiritual tools to develop into creative, independent, critical thinking, compassionate and responsible members of their communities.
Our History
Hillel Academy was founded in 1961 to provide a quality and comprehensive Jewish education for the children of the Dayton Jewish community.
“We knew we wanted our children in a Jewish school as we raise them in a Jewish home, but given how important academics are to us, we were initially concerned it would be a choice between the two. Hillel Academy has made it so that we did NOT have to choose between academics and religion. Our kindergartener comes home daily with a well-rounded, healthy, thirst-for-knowledge in ways we could only have hoped for. Our first grader, now reading and doing math above her grade level, as well as doodling the days of creation while she draws at the kitchen table.....we simply couldn’t be more proud. It is with a full heart we will be sending our third child to Hillel when he is old enough.”
— Miri Lader, M.D., FAAP