Name: Learning Prep School
Address: 1507 Washington Street West Newton, MA 02465
District: Newton
Phone Number: 617-965-0764
Fax: 617-527-1514
Web site: www.Learningprep.org
Email: NRosoff@Learningprep.org
Head of School: Nancy E. Rosoff
School Type: Special Needs School
Founded: 1970
Ages/Grades: 8-21
Setting: Language based disability
School Size: 405 students
Classroom Size: 8
Student/Teacher ratio: 8:1
Tuition: 26,918.34
Financial Aid: None
% of Graduating class to continue education: 100%
Departments: academics, SPL, O.T., Childcare, Horticulture, Computers, Art, Counseling, Thinking Maps, HS Workstudy
Curriculum: curriculum is specially designed for the language-impaired, it is taught to students at their pace
Support Services: SPL, O.T., Tutor, Thinking Maps
Camp Programs: No
Afterschool Programs: Yes
Computer Capabilities: Computer technology focus' on increasing their level of computer literacy by focusing on how to, safety, PCs in society, vocabulary
School Clubs: SADD, Student Council,Yearbook
Parking Spaces/Availability: Yes
Uniform Guidelines: No- just guidelines in rules and policies per grade level
Mission Statement: Mission Statement - is gradual release of responsibility leading to student independence
Notes: We go by the Public School Calendar

Admissions Requirements:
send application, along with IEP, testing, to be reviewed by the Director to determine the appropriatness of the student. If so the student is invited to have a tour and interview. Then a two week trial is arrange to determine if the student will be accepted based on input from adiministration, staff, the student and parents.

School History:
opened in 1970 wrapped in a supportive context of adaptive and extended services. Students from over 115 New England communities come to our highly supportive environment. Our unique, time-proven methods foster the gradual release of responsiblity for learning and behavior, leading to student independence.

The premise of LPS's EMS, 8th and HS programs is that most language-challenged students do not learn incidentally from the environment as do non-impaired students. Language-impaired students demostrates deficits in the acquisition of language as well as in their ability to access the competencies they have acquired. In addition, their ability to understand the social and non-literal meaning of language is often impaired. To address these problems, LPS provides language-impaired students with specially designed instructional programs within a safe, and highly structured classroom setting.