Far Brook School

Far Brook School
Location
52 Great Hills Road
Short Hills, NJ 07078

40°44′54″N 74°18′53″W / 40.7482°N 74.3147°W / 40.7482; -74.3147
Information
TypePrivate school
MottoThey Shout for Joy, They Also Sing
Established1948
Head of school
Amy Ziebarth
Faculty78
GradesNursery - Eight
Enrollment246 students in the 2025-2026 school year
Student to teacher ratio
5:1
WebsiteSchool website

Far Brook School is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational day school located in the Short Hills section of Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in nursery through eighth grade.

Far Brook School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Elementary Schools, and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools, the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, the Educational Records Bureau, and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.[citation needed]

Notable alumni

Notable staff

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Home". farbrook.org.
  2. ↑ School Search Archived September 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Accessed July 29, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Concert is benefit for Far Brook fund", The Item of Millburn snd Short Hills, December 31, 1981. Accessed July 3, 2026, via Newspapers.com. "David Finckel, cellist with the Emerson String Quartet, will give a concert to benefit Far Brook School January 9 at 8 p.m. in the YM-YWHA of Metropolitan New Jersey, West Orange. Accompanist will be Lambert Orkis, pianist with the e National Symphony in Washington, D.C. Mr. Finckel, a native of Madison, is a Far Brook graduate who began his study of the cello with Mary Gili of 40 Elm Street."
  4. ↑ Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ph.D., Awaken.com. Accessed July 5, 2026. "Lerner grew up in the Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey. He attended the Far Brook Country Day School, a private school known for interdenominational Christianity."
  5. ↑ Holden, Steven (May 10, 2001). "Edwin Finckel, 83, Composer, Jazz Pianist and Music Educator". The New York Times. Retrieved January 1, 2011.