Enrollment is up as DAT gets through COVID

the end of a year that has imposed an abundance of hardships on educators and schools — all of them direct or indirect effects of the coronavirus pandemic — one Denver Jewish day school is happy to report that things are going surprisingly well, in spite of it all. The Denver Academy of Torah, the Lowry-based, K-12, modern Orthodox day school, has not only experienced an enrollment increase of nearly 20% during the current school term but has managed to maintain a fully staffed faculty, head-of-school Lisa Stroll told the Intermountain Jewish News last week. Those dynamics — student enrollment and teacher staffing — are precisely the areas in which the pandemic has most adversely affected many other schools, especially public ones, as closures, infections, […]