At a Glance
The flagship Chabad-Lubavitch school on Eastern Parkway, training Shluchim at the movement's global epicenter.
Best suited for
Chabad-Lubavitch families, including Shluchim and emissary families, who want an immersive Torah education rooted in the Rebbe's teachings and centered in the movement's Crown Heights home base.
What stands out
- Officially designated as a flagship school for rearing Shluchim, giving the curriculum a mission orientation most day schools don't have.
- Multi-divisional campus — preschool, elementary (Oholei Menachem), Talmudical Seminary, and post-high school Shiur Hey — means continuity in one location from early childhood through post-secondary.
- Curriculum explicitly framed as Torah study with the Rebbe's teachings as integral, not supplemental.
- Flat $25,000 tuition is a notably approachable price point for a full-time NYC private Jewish education.
- Located on Eastern Parkway itself, directly inside the cultural and geographic center of world Chabad.
Things to consider
- This is a religiously specific school — only a fit for families already aligned with Chabad-Lubavitch practice and the Shlichus mission.
- Public reviews are mixed: at least one parent describes leadership issues, while another speaks positively about 3K teachers and social development, so it's worth asking other current families directly.
- The elementary school is billed under the same listing as the seminary and post-high school program — confirm with the school which division and grade configuration your child is applying to.
- Rolling admissions mean there's no single deadline pressure, but early contact helps clarify space availability in popular grades.
- The Shluchim-raising framing is the school's whole reason for being, not a marketing line — make sure that ethos matches what you want for your child.
Identity
A Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva whose curriculum is built around Torah study and the teachings of the Rebbe, with a stated mission to prepare students for Shlichus — emissary work around the world. The school organization runs a preschool (ages 2.5–5), an elementary division known as Oholei Menachem, a Talmudical Seminary, and the Shiur Hey post-high school program.
Community
Enrollment draws almost entirely from Chabad-Lubavitch families, including many Shluchim families whose parents are stationed in or passing through Crown Heights. The surrounding neighborhood shows a median household income of $73,859 with a 20.2% poverty rate, reflecting the economically mixed character of North Crown Heights itself, even as the school's own community is religiously uniform.
Neighborhood
The school sits on Eastern Parkway in North Crown Heights, walking distance of 770 Eastern Parkway and the surrounding Chabad infrastructure that defines daily life in this part of Brooklyn. Median household income sits at $73,859, with a 20.2% poverty rate and 42.4% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher. The block is the historic anchor of the Chabad movement's American presence.
Transit is genuinely convenient — Kingston Av (3) is about a 4-minute walk, Nostrand Av (3) about 5 minutes, and the 2/5 is reachable via President St–Medgar Evers College in about 7 minutes.
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What Parents Are Saying
Mixed reviews - one negative review describes the school as 'run like a zoo' with ineffective leadership, while another positive review mentions polite teachers and social development in 3K
Synthesized from public parent reviews · Apr 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions
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