The Charlton School

While in residence at The Charlton School, students attend the Ketchum-Grande Memorial School. The on-campus school is approved by the New York State Education Department (NYSED) as an Article 89 school and provides instruction based on NYSED learning standards, assessments and curriculums.

These provide the basis of an intensive special education program designed to prepare students to pass Regents examinations through grade level courses and earn credits toward high school graduation. Students who have struggled with school in the past customarily achieve success through small classes and high levels of academic and counseling support. A Child Study Team monitors student progress to assure high quality individualized programming. Through this process, previously unrecognized learning difficulties may be assessed.

Remediation is regularly provided thorough Academic Intervention Services, a consulting special education teacher and instruction by experienced faculty. Guided by school based counseling, within the schools’ philosophical commitment to developing the whole child, students are empowered to change detrimental choices previously made in school, to constructive choices and behaviors that produce school success and life long learning. Within a choice based treatment approach, used campus wide, students acquire and practice normative behaviors until these become personal habits. The positive changes in each students’ personal development ultimately contribute to her successful reintegration in the home school, continuing achievement and sustained school adjustment.