Makif He’ Darca – Ashqelon

Darca Ironi Heh high school (municipal high school) was established on Sept 1st, 2010, 22 Elul 5770 as a growing high school. The school currently has 218 students in seven 8th grade classes, plus 180 students in six 7th grade classes; plus a teaching staff of 40.

Rabbi Carlebach said: “Each child needs at least one adult who will believe in him.”
This brilliant sentence is the moral compass for our educational, value-based work, and guides us in everything we do.

The population of students in our establishment is highly diverse, creating a multicoloured puzzle that poses a fascinating challenge to the teaching staff

Our Educational Vision

Excellence as quality routine

The school shall be a safe, protected abode that provides a climate of personal and social growth

• Belief in every student’s personal abilities
• Serving as a role model, providing a personal example as a way of imparting values
• Responsibility and commitment
• Sense of belonging and esprit de corps
• Optimal educational climate
• Awareness of multiculturalism
• Dialogue as a way of life
• Love and respect for one’s fellow man

School Goals

• Developing a pedagogical and disciplinary infrastructure
• Fostering an organizational culture (planning, executing and control)
• Deepening social & community involvement
• Strengthening Jewish identity and increasing heritage studies
• Improving students’ scholastic achievements and their quality
• Empowering the human resource

Teaching and Learning

• Nurturing Excellence
• Preparatory class in math, physics and culture
• Municipal excellence – a school for gifted children & youth
• Robotics
• Excellence in mathematics
• Kdam Atidim track [a program promoting outstanding youth from the periphery)
• Excellence 2000
• Narrowing the educational
• Nachshon project (virtual mentoring for youth in the periphery)
• Ye’adim program (math, English, written & oral proficiency, science)
• Learning strategies – Maslulim (institute for learning skills)
• ELAH program for locating and assisting students with learning difficulties

Value-Based Social Education

• Young leadership (youth movements, student council)
• School newspaper
• Strengthening Jewish identity through collaboration with like-minded bodies (HaRuach HaYehudit – The Jewish Spirit; Am Israel Echad – Jewish Education & Continuity; Morasha – network for Jewish heritage and
• social involvement; Memizrach Shemesh – religious seminary for social leadership)
• Ceremonies on remembrance days
• Social involvemet