How school works here
Children are placed in state schools and gans by the municipality's education department according to your address, so register with the city first. The Ministry of Education lists about 30 schools in Hod HaSharon, more than 100 municipal gans and about 50 registered day-care centres (maonot and mishpachtonim). Our schools and day care listings come from that ministry list.
Primary schools
State primary schools include Yigal Alon, Lapid, Re'ut, HaMagen, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Lea Goldberg, Orna Porat, Yael Rom, Nitzanim, Mamlachti Alef and the Neve Ne'eman community school. HaYarok school is named after Ariel Sharon. Shilo is the state-religious (mamlachti dati) primary school. There is also a democratic school and the Tamar anthroposophic school, and Haredi schools such as Meshivat Nefesh and Neve Moshe.
Middle and high schools
Middle schools: HaRishonim, HaShachar, Atidim and HaShikmim. High schools: Hadarim, Ilan Ramon, Shikmim, Mosenson (at the Mosenson Youth Village, which also takes students from abroad), a democratic high school and an anthroposophic high school. Tzurim is a special-education school.
For students from abroad
Alexander Muss High School in Israel, founded in 1972 and run with JNF-USA, brings high-school students from abroad for 6 to 18 weeks and shares its campus with Mosenson.
Day care before gan
For babies and toddlers, the day-care listings are registered centres and family day care. Ask about the subsidy from the Ministry of Labor if you both work.