Testimonials

““Deciding to send our 3 boys to Kellman Brown Academy was one of the easiest decisions my husband and I have made as parents. As a graduate of KBA and a KBA parent I have an even deeper appreciation for the gift that my parents gave me in a Kellman education.

One particular aspect of Kellman that has resonated with me since I was a student is the remarkable sense of school-wide community. Children are encouraged to create relationships with their peers but are also expected to teach and learn from children both younger and older. I remember attending school-wide events like ‘model seders’ and Lag BaOmer field days. As a younger KBA student I was filled with admiration for my older brother׳s friends who were my assigned learning buddies in school-wide educational events. As an older KBA student, to finally become the learning buddy for my younger sister’s classmates was beyond exciting. This emphasis on becoming an impactful part of a community continues to flourish today at KBA where school wide assemblies are often started with everyone together saying “We not me.” And the daily pledge focuses on ‘chesed,’ kindness towards others.””

“All I know is that the kids who graduate from Kellman Brown Academy are well educated, successful, balanced and confident in who they are. We lend our name to the school because we believe in the mission of creating well educated leaders of the future who are community minded, good citizens and overall kind people.”

“KBA completely prepped me academically and laid the foundation for me to be successful in high school, college and graduate school. It is those early years when you learn not just the materials but how to think. KBA taught me how to be a thinker, problem solver, and to be able to work under pressure and deal with difficult subject matters.”

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”From the moment that I was hired by Rabbi Furman (z”l), I knew this was the place I wanted to be, and this was the place where I wanted to teach. It quickly became my second home, an integral and inseparable part of my life.

I love to see the children grow and progress. The students learn to be better people, and definitely better Jews who understand our history, our values, our rituals and ceremonies and the importance of being a proud Jew in a non- Jewish world. The graduates return to see us and they tell us about their plans. They come to visit and we are so happy to see how they have grown, matured, and prospered. Kellman is also a second home for our students. They talk to us about their concerns, their thoughts, and their dreams.

Students remember the warm relationships with the teachers, and how as adults, they still maintain friendships that began in KBA’s kindergarten or preschool.
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“I love KBA because the school has managed to escape the social and academic problems plaguing education today. In a close-knit environment teachers, working with the support of parents, develop confident young people who are knowledgeable and ethically prepared.”

“In recent years, a number of Kellman Brown graduates have chosen to attend high school at Moorestown Friends. They were well-prepared at KBA and have done well in our rigorous college preparatory courses. They have also become active participants in the life of MFS and KBA/MFS grads have gone on to attend highly selective colleges and universities.”

““Even more than 20 years after graduating from Kellman, I still look back on my time there fondly. So much of who I am comes from the time I spent walking the Kellman halls and sitting in its classrooms. Great memories, lessons, and life-long friends; I couldn’t ask for much more from a school I called home from 3-year nursery through 8th grade.
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