Before your child spends their first day at Winston Prep, we spend weeks designing an academic program for your child’s specific needs. Our individualized educational process begins with the review of each student’s standardized testing, informal testing, and social-emotional development, as well as anecdotal information provided by parents, teachers and the student themselves.

Winston Prep then groups students based on their learning profile, thus allowing our expert educators to develop a curriculum that meets the needs of each student in a small group setting. The design of an individualized program that encourages skill acquisition and independence is one of the most challenging tasks for an educator, and to do so successfully one must fully assess, understand, and evaluate the responses of each student as an individual learner.

In terms of criteria for admissions, a specific admissions checklist does not exist, as Winston Prep students possess various skills and abilities along the academic and social-emotional continuum. The educational philosophy is to serve a wide range of students as individual learners with individual needs; therefore a specific checklist requiring maximum and minimum scores and evaluation results would not be an accurate determinant of success at Winston Prep. 

Despite the individualized approach, there are some general expectations of the applicants:

1. They are diagnosed with a learning disability

2. They do not have a primary emotional or behavioral diagnosis

3. Their cognitive and academic profile matches that of our current students.