First- and second-grade students of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach returned to their school building last week, after they were displaced to the Lawrence Middle School after Hurricane Sandy.
The students of the yeshiva, which serves children in grades one through eight at 530 W. Broadway, returned on the fourth day of Chanukah, after they were schooled in various rooms throughout LMS, including the gym, the assistant superintendent offices and the occupational and physical therapy rooms that were converted into classrooms.
A week after the storm, Gary Schall, superintendent of Lawrence Public Schools, reached out to Richard Hagler, HALB’s executive director, to see if the district could help the students, according to The Jewish Star.
Schall said:
“We could allocate the space. It has no impact on public school operations; it’s very workable.”
In August, HALB came in second to Mount Sinai Hospital in a bid for a former school property in Woodmere, the Number Six School at the corner of Peninsula Boulevard and Branch Boulevard.
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