Dalton School English teacher with annual salary of $61,000 resigns after being accused of sexually abusing a student

• Mara Naaman, 50, is accused of abusing the student between 2020 and 2022
• The renowned school on the Upper East Side fears there could be more victims

A teacher at the elite New York school where Jeffrey Epstein once taught has resigned after being accused of sexually abusing a student for two years.

Mara Naaman, 50, resigned four days after the Dalton School received a letter “on behalf of a former student” alleging that the English teacher abused her between 2020 and 2022.

Three days later, parents at the private school, which costs $61,000 a school year, received an email from principal Jose De Jesús warning that there might be more victims.

“We are simply disclosing the teacher’s name so that anyone with relevant information can provide it,” he wrote.

“Our priority is to determine the veracity of these allegations and whether there are further allegations of abuse from other members of the community.”

Naaman, a mother and former Fulbright scholar who describes herself as a “writer, scholar, humanist,” was an assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at Williams College in Massachusetts, where she spent seven years before coming to Dalton in 2017.

At the school, she taught English literature for grades 9-12 and was appointed “house counselor.” Her job was to “create a safe space for conversations around personal responsibility,” the school’s website states.

“House Advisors not only provide advice on academic matters, but serve as a sounding board for students on all matters, including social and emotional issues,” it states.

“In addition, the House Advisor is the primary contact between Dalton and the student’s family.”

Former students of the K-12 school include journalist Anderson Cooper, actresses Claire Danes and Tracee Ellis Ross, and actor Chevy Chase

The school gained notoriety during the trial of Jeffrey Epstein, when it emerged that the pedophile billionaire had worked there as a physics and mathematics teacher in 1973 and had taught, among others, the son of the former CEO of Bear Stearns, Alan “Ace” Greenberg.

It was also at the center of a lawsuit against former school principal Gardner Dunnan, who was accused in a 2018 lawsuit of sexually abusing a 14-year-old student he took in in the 1980s.

Dunnan allowed the girl to be admitted to the school without her having to go through a formal application process, the lawsuit said.

Because she could not afford the school fees, the girl was allowed to live with Dunnan and his wife, according to the lawsuit, as long as she helped them with the newborn in their apartment near the school.

Naaman, a graduate of Columbia University, was among dozens of Dalton staff members who signed an “anti-racism manifesto” in 2020 calling for a curriculum overhaul before returning to class after the pandemic.

The eight-page document called for the hiring of 12 special diversity officers, the allocation of half of all donations to New York City’s public schools, and the elimination of AP classes if black students’ grades do not match those of white students.

School officials stressed that the document was merely a series of “food for thought” and said it already contained a “commitment to diversity, equality, inclusion and anti-racism, based on our deep appreciation for the dignity of all members of the community.”

The school has reported the latest allegations to police and “engaged an outside investigation firm, T&M USA LLC, experts in the field of sexual misconduct, to conduct an investigation.”

“The school has clear policies and guidelines for the appropriate treatment of Dalton students,” De Jesus wrote.

“Currently, all employees are fingerprinted upon hiring and we conduct a background check.”

“Every year they attend training on boundaries and sexual harassment prevention.”

Naaman’s sudden resignation has also alarmed some parents who had relied on her for college recommendations for their children.

“It was a very big surprise,” a former Dalton parent told the New York Post.

“Everyone talks about it, but nobody really knows what happened.”