Enrollment Options

School and Residential Enrollment

The Heartspring School is open all year, with a seven-hour school day, Monday through Friday. Each student has a team of professionals that work together to develop the student's individual educational plan (IEP). A student’s team may include members from the student's home school district, the parents, and a certified special education teacher, home coordinator, developmental pediatrician, two consulting physicians, a nurse, PhD-level psychologist, masters-level behavioral specialist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, and speech language pathologists. Small classroom sizes and student to teacher ratios, combined with our expert staff, create an environment ideal for each student’s growth (many of our students are staffed one-on-one). Completing the school program is a special education music teacher, adapted physical education teacher and an art instructor.

For students who reside on campus, the educational program reaches beyond the seven-hour school day and continues the education program in the home environments and in the community. Home coordinators and para-educators supervise continued instructional programming in home living, community living, personal and recreation/leisure skills, often tied to skills the students learned in class during the school day. These skills are taught in the home or community setting, and help generalize skills sets across different environments. All students living on campus reside in our group homes

Through the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's Student and Exchange Visitors Program (SEVP), Heartspring is certified to enroll international students.

School (Day Only) Enrollment

Heartspring's Day School Program has the same seven-hour school day, Monday through Friday, and follows the school-calendar schedule of the referring school district. All Heartspring students have access to the same IEP team members and resources our residential students have access to (see above).  Day School program students do not live on the Heartspring campus and will return to their home every day.