Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said unknown attackers spray painted "Death to Arabs" and "Kahane was right," on the school's playground in the Arab East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa.
"Kahane" is a reference to Meir Kahane, the founder of an extremist anti-Arab Jewish movement called Kach, which is officially outlawed in Israel.
Kahane was assassinated in 1990 but his ideology continues to find favor among some of Israel's most extreme right-wing settlers.
Samri said an investigation had been opened into the incident, the second time the school has been attacked in less than a week.
On February 7, intruders painted similar phrases on a wall of the school, a rare institution where students – both Arabs and Jews – study in both Arabic and Hebrew.
The incidents are the latest in a spate of so-called "price tag" attacks, usually carried out by extremist settlers in response to Israeli government action against settlements in the West Bank.
Attackers have targeted Palestinian and Arab property and buildings, including mosques, as well as Israeli military bases and left-wing Israeli activists.
The Jewish state continues to control the terms of Palestinian residency and arbitrarily denies Palestinians the ability to live and study in the areas where their families are from, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
A HRW report released last week said Israeli policies on Palestinian residency have indiscriminately denied thousands of Palestinians the ability to live in, and travel to and from, the West Bank and Gaza.
The report called on Israel to “immediately stop denying or canceling the residency of Palestinians and close family members with deep ties to the West Bank and Gaza, and end blanket bans on processing their applications for residency.”
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