Lehrman Community Day School

Lehrman Community Day School is housed in a three story building on the corner of Dickens and 77th Street on Miami Beach. Our address is: 727 77th Street, Miami Beach, Florida 33141. Click  HERE for directions.

Lehrman Community Day School was founded in 1960. Lehrman is the oldest pluralistic Jewish day school in Florida.

Our families represent a cross-section of the Jewish community, encompassing all denominations as well as unaffiliated families. At Lehrman we create a climate of comfort and respect for children and their families who come with all varieties of observance.


Lehrman has an excellent Early Childhood program for children ages 18 months to pre-kindergarten. The elementary school begins with kindergarten and goes through fifth grade.


Lehrman is actively committed to being a diverse community. Our families come from 42 different countries, from a variety of ZIP codes, and they come from all streams of Judaism.

Our two divisions educate about 350 children. Our students represent every spectrum of Jewish life.

We do not permit a child to be denied an LCDS education because of finances; thus we have a generous need-based Tuition Assistance program.

Our ratio is 6:1. Our committed and talented teachers have a median of 20 years teaching experience. Like our families, our teachers come to us with a broad variety of backgrounds and experience.

Lehrman Community Day School is accredited by the Association of Independent Schools of Florida (AISF) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS); Affiliated with The Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE), Lehrman is a beneficiary of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.

The ECD day is 8:10–3:30 and parents may stay with their children until class activities begin at 9:00 am. The K–5th grade division is 8:10 am–3:30 pm (M-Th). In honor of the Sabbath, every division ends at 2:40 pm on Fridays throughout the year.

Lehrman offers our students premier curricular offerings detailed in our curriculum guides:
 The Early Childhood (ages 18 months to 4 yrs) Curriculum is thematic and interactive;
 Core Knowledge is a scoped and sequenced history based program in Grades K-5 (a complete overview is available on the Core Knowledge web site).

Lehrman Jewish Studies and Hebrew curricula are also carefully chosen and are the most widely used in their genre: Hebrew emersion curricula: Chalav u’Dvash in Nursery-K, Tal AM in 1-4, MaToK in grade 4-grade 5.

Students go to Jewish day school middle schools, local independent schools such as Ransom Everglades, Miami Country Day School, University School of Nova Southeastern, as well as public schools, usually in honors programs. Lehrman students are accepted at the schools of their choice.


Lerhman is a member of the Florida High School Athletic Association and the Jewish Athletic League. We field 3 teams in 4 different sports.

The LCDS formal arts program is taught by teacher/practitioners, and as Tom Lollar, Director of Visual Arts for New York’s Lincoln Center said about Lehrman:
“The program is very exciting and encourages creativity in a unique setting.” 
Extra-curricular and elective offerings include: Chorale (Zimriyah), Israeli Dance, Visual Arts, Photography, Musical Theatre Production (the past years have seen outstanding performances of “Annie,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,”and “Beaty and the Beast.”), and Instrumental Ensemble.