Therapeutic School
The Five Acres Therapeutic School, a leader in special education, supports students with behavioral, emotional and learning challenges. Focus is on building children's strengths academically with a special emphasis on reading, writing, arithmetic and social studies We work collaboratively with school districts. Children from Five Acres as well as from neighboring communities who have severe learning disabilities, behavioral problems or academic deficiencies associated with childhood trauma receive the intensive education and treatment they need.
Founded in 1981 as a Non-Public School (NPS) program, Five Acres' therapeutic school is WASC accredited and certified by the Special Education Division of the California Department of Education. ID (#19-64881-6917199). Five Acres School offers highly specialized instruction to students eligible for special education services in the areas of emotional disturbance, learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and mild mental retardation. A 50-day summer school program is offered with an academic and a social skills track.
(626) 798-6793 x 2315
Academic Environment
The Five Acres school offers a calm, nurturing and highly structured academic environment, including a large playground and swimming pool. Our course of study is in complete alignment with California standards and frameworks in all core academic areas. Our school contains a 6000-volume central library along with a 9000-volume Reading Renaissance library in individual classrooms. All classrooms have networked computer stations with filtered Internet access for educational study and research.
Rich in Resources
We offer highly individualized instruction along with the designated instructional services of speech, transportation and one-on-one assistance. Class sizes are small (8 to 12 students per class) and the teacher/student ratio is 1:4. In addition our program offers a great variety of community access including field trips, dual-enrollments and full mainstreaming to public school.
Nurturing Faculty and Staff
The faculty includes veteran teachers with clear regular and special education credentials and graduate degrees in special education. Our faculty and staff are highly experienced with special needs students and most have worked in our school for 10 to 25 years.
