Our Founding

Since 1996, our community of parents has been building a school dedicated to academic excellence in a moral setting. A New Hope for all children.

New Hope School was founded by two mothers, Jeanne Carroll and Ginny Christofferson. With six first graders, their goal was to establish a challenging academic as well as moral educational environment for their children.

Working at first out of the home of Mrs. Carroll and adding one grade level each year, the school gradually expanded and, in 2002, relocated to rent space at the Athenia Reformed Church on Clifton Avenue in Clifton, New Jersey. In 2024, New Hope School partnered with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Clifton to use the wonderful facility at 822 Clifton Ave.

Our enrollment currently comprises students from 25 countries embracing various Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and Oriental religious traditions.

From the beginning, New Hope School has been offering a curriculum based upon universal values that have been at the basis of all the world's great religious and cultural traditions. Specifically, we seek to promote family values together with a vigorous academic program to develop our student's hearts and intellects in preparation for an adult life of living for the sake of others.