[1] Ein Kerem school opened in 1948, after a farm school established in 1933 in East Talpiot by Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi (later wife of President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi) moved to abandoned buildings in Ein Kerem that belonged to Palestinians after they fled during the events of the Nakba of 1948.

[2] Aharon Appelfeld, who went on to become of one of Israel's leading authors, attended the Ein Kerem Agricultural School.

My daily routine was clear during those years: reveille before dawn, arduous labor from 6:00 to 8:00, a full and aromatic breakfast, and uninterrupted work after that.

The war years dropped through me like a stone and I went and communed with the soil, the Hebrew language, and the books that I read with immense thirst.”[3]Today, Ein Kerem Agricultural School is a regional high school for localities in the Matte Yehuda Regional Council area.

It offers classes in horticulture, nutrition, treatment of potted plants, geology, environmental studies, theater, Arabic and biology in addition to the regular curriculum.