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Within yeshiva life
Public founding accounts place the school inside the Torah Vodaath campus from its first year in 2001.
Our school · Our history
A small school
with a steadfast
purpose.
Founded by Nussen and Sarah Sander with seven students in September 2001, Yeshiva Bonim Lamokom is a boys’ Jewish special education school rooted in a shared Brooklyn yeshiva campus.
Seven founding students
in the first September school year.
7
students began the first school year in September 2001
A BEGINNING · A PLACE · A COMMUNITY
The beginning
A family’s idea
became a school.
Public reporting traces Yeshiva Bonim Lamokom to Nussen and Sarah Sander and a first class of seven students in September 2001.
From its opening, the school was located within the Yeshiva Torah Vodaath campus. That shared setting placed a specialized educational program inside the everyday environment of a Brooklyn yeshiva.
The details are modest but significant: two founders, seven students, one shared campus, and a school that public records still identify more than two decades later.
“A haven of warmth, love, acceptance, education.
Sarah Sander, in a published account of the school’s founding
Nussen Sander
Sarah Sander
September 2001
Purpose visible in the record
A place within tradition.
A setting built to know each learner.
The school does not publish a current official mission statement online. These themes are a careful synthesis of its documented founding, setting, and NCES profile.
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Personal in scale
NCES recorded 52 students and 12.6 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers—a 4.1:1 ratio—in 2023–24.
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Ungraded by design
NCES classifies the all-boys school as ungraded special education at elementary and secondary levels.
About this language: “Within yeshiva life,” “personal in scale,” and “ungraded by design” are editorial descriptions based on cited public facts, not quotations from an official school mission. Classroom photographs are representative licensed imagery, not enrolled students or confirmed school interiors.
A documented timeline
From seven students
to today’s school.
This timeline separates the founding account from the latest comprehensive federal school profile available for public review.
Sept. 2001
The first school year
Seven students begin
A published account records Yeshiva Bonim Lamokom opening in September 2001 with seven students.
2001
The founders
Nussen and Sarah Sander
The school’s public founding story identifies Nussen and Sarah Sander as the couple who established the program.
From opening
The setting
A home inside Torah Vodaath
The same account places the program on the Yeshiva Torah Vodaath campus from the beginning. The shared building shown on this page is at 425 East 9th Street in Brooklyn.
2023–24
The federal profile
52 students in a boys’ ungraded school
NCES reports 52 students, 12.6 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, a 4.1:1 student–teacher ratio, and an eight-hour school day.
מקום · מסורת · צמיחה
A school story held
Place · Tradition · Growth
A school story held
inside a living tradition.
Our Brooklyn setting
One address.
A shared campus.
Yeshiva Bonim Lamokom is listed at 425 East 9th Street in Brooklyn—the Torah Vodaath campus connected to its founding story.
The historic relationship to this location is more than a line in a directory: the public founding account specifically describes the school as having opened inside Torah Vodaath.
Image note
The campus photograph used throughout this page is a documented exterior image of the shared Torah Vodaath building. Other educational and Judaic photographs are representative licensed images.
Address source: NCES 2023–24 Private School Universe Survey. Call the school before arranging a visit.
425
East 9th Street · Brooklyn, New York 11218
BROOKLYN · NEW YORK · SHARED CAMPUS
Except for the documented campus exterior, these are representative licensed photographs and do not depict Yeshiva Bonim Lamokom students, staff, or interiors.
Verified school profile
The school,
clearly sourced.
The figures below come from the 2023–24 NCES Private School Universe Survey; the opening details come from a published community account of the school’s founding.
NCES 2023–24 snapshot
- School type
- Jewish special education
- Student body
- All boys
- Level
- Elementary and secondary
- Grade structure
- Ungraded
- Enrollment
- 52 students
- Classroom teachers
- 12.6 full-time equivalent
- Student–teacher ratio
- 4.1 students per teacher
- Length of school day
- 8 hours
- Address
- 425 E 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11218
Historical source: The September 2001 opening, seven founding students, Nussen and Sarah Sander, and Torah Vodaath setting are drawn from the published founding account. Public information can lag behind current operations; families should confirm present-day details directly with the school.
Shared Torah Vodaath campus · Brooklyn
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Address425 East 9th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11218
Brooklyn, NY 11218
Phone(718) 693-9032
Cortelyou Rd
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