Butler was the founding principal and served until 1995, establishing the school's primary division.

SJCS opened a new campus in the Green Lake neighborhood on Woodlawn Ave N.E.in the building formerly occupied by Billings Middle School.

[3] In addition to tuition, SJCS receives funding from individual and institutional donors including the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and the Samis Foundation.

[4] SJCS enrollment is open to students from Seattle and its suburbs and who speak English, Hebrew, and Russian as first languages in their homes.

According to NWAIS, the accrediting body for the school, it enrolls families that are both affiliated and unaffiliated with a synagogue or havurah.