Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, Summit School, Inc. offers two programs to serve at-risk children. Summit School serves students with learning differences while the Early Learning Center gets preschoolers with developmental delays ready for kindergarten
For 50 years Summit School, Inc. has remained committed to, “Empowering Children with Learning Differences to Achieve their Individual Potential.” The organization’s mission to, “Provide programs that build a solid foundation for educational and lifelong success” guides our organizational priorities and strategies for our two programs.
The Summit School Special Education Center is a small, therapeutic Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) approved and AdvancED accredited facility serving an average of 80 students whose educational needs are best served in a therapeutic environment. Summit students, from kindergarten through high school graduation, are typically placed by home school districts according to students’ individual education plans (IEPs). Children with identified learning, attentional and/or social difficulties, including children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, attend Summit from over 30 school districts.
Students benefit from an array of educational and support services, individualized according to IEPs, for a comprehensive educational experience. Students have a team of educators and therapists, coupled with parents and school districts, to optimize success. Transition programs help students return to their home schools or to prepare for life after graduation either at a post-secondary institution or in the workplace.
The Summit School Early Learning Center is an ExceleRate Gold Circle of Quality accredited preschool program serving three-to-four-year-olds deemed to be developmentally at risk. The Center strives to prepare children for kindergarten by providing programming to develop social-emotional skills, cognitive skills, math and literacy skills. In addition, the Center incorporates speech therapy and opportunities to learn self-regulation into the student experience.
Provide programs that build a solid foundation for educational and lifelong success.
- Services to support the educational and therapeutic needs of children with learning differences from kindergarten through high school graduation.
- Preschool programs for three- and four-year-old at-risk children assessed to be developmentally delayed.
