How many campers attend Starlight?
Our camp consists of 220 boys and 220 girls, ranging in age from 7-15. The vast majority of campers return to Camp Starlight year after year as there is a strong sense of community and closeness among campers and staff.

How many staff do you have and what are their qualifications?
The staff consists of professional educators, coaches and upper-level college and graduate students. A 3:1 camper to counselor ratio is maintained. The minimum staff age is 20 years old or having finished one’s sophomore year in college. Junior counselors have previous camper experience. Departments are headed by professionals in their respective fields and many of them return to Starlight summer after summer. We also have Head Counselors, Assistant Head Counselors, Division Leaders and Unit Leaders working directly with the campers and staff on a daily basis. Counselors are carefully selected by the directors for their ability to provide an encouraging, caring and supportive environment and for their skills in teaching and coaching. Thorough screening and reference checks are conducted on each staff member. All staff members participate in an intensive pre-season training program.

What is a brother/sister camp?
Our brother/sister program allows the girls and boys to enjoy separate activities during the day with all the elements of a single sex camp with the advantages of being together for meals and many evening programs and special events. Siblings can see each other at line up in the mornings and evenings, meals, free-play following dinner and all-camp evening activities such as theatrical productions. Our camper population is generally divided equally between girls and boys. The living accommodations for the boys and girls are located on opposite sides of the campus.

What is the program?
The best way to describe a camper’s summer at Starlight is to explain how the athletics, outdoor adventure, fine arts and crafts, performing arts and water sports all combine to provide a well-rounded experience. Each camper has two morning and two afternoon activity periods with his/her own bunk and one elective period in the morning and one in the afternoon. The morning elective period is selected weekly and allows for more intensive instruction and program time. Super Sixth is a daily option scheduled for the last period of the day. Campers choose their Super Sixth the evening before and make their choice from a select list of activities, which always includes General Swim. This is a time for campers to improve on their athletic skills, finish projects, try-out and practice for teams or take a dip in the lake. Senior campers have the flexibility to incorporate more individual choices into their program.

What are the living arrangements like?
Camp Starlight offers cabins or "bunks" that incorporate the comforts of home with the rustic nature of camping. Each bunk, which houses 8-12 campers and 2-3 counselors, is equipped with beds and dressers in the main living room, closets for clothes and gear in the back room and cubbies for toiletries in the bathroom. Each bunk has a hot water heater, smoke alarm, front and back entrances, outside clothes line, loft for storage, windows, electric outlets, two toilets and 1-2 showers. The front of each bunk faces inward towards a semi-circle with a view of the lake, designed to promote cohesiveness among divisions.

How is the food served, and what choices will my child have?
Camp Starlight’s Dining Hall is situated in the center of camp overlooking the first lake and separates the two campuses. It is also home to thousands of bunk plaques, the first of which dates back to 1947. Boys and girls eat on separate sides of the dining hall by bunk, with our youngest campers in their own part of the dining hall. Older campers eat in a separate seating. Our Kitchen and Dining Room is kosher. Breakfast and dinner are served family style with the addition of bagel/cereal bars at breakfast and salad/pasta or potato bars at dinner. Lunch is served buffet style and also features an extensive salad bar, homemade soups and fresh fruit. Campers have the option of picnicking outside for lunch. There is a mid-afternoon "fruit break". Once a week there is a cookout held for the entire camp at our outdoor barbeque overlooking the countryside. The outdoor barbeque is also the location for our breakfast cookouts, which rotates from division to division throughout the summer. Candy and other light snacks are available from the canteen during the day or evenings as scheduled by division.

Is Starlight affiliated with a certain religion?
The majority of our campers come from Jewish families, but Camp Starlight welcomes all religions. There is a Friday night service that is attended by all staff members and campers.