Cunningham Park, Flushing NY | Nearby Businesses

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Cunningham Park
Flushing, NY 11364
(718) 217-6452

The Summit School is a state approved, private special education school in New York City. It operates on two campuses in Queens and surrounds the St. John's University campus. The Lower School, which educates elementary and middle school students, utilizes space in the Hillcrest Jewish Center, and the Summit's Upper School serves high school students. It is currently directed by John Renner with Richard Sitman as executive director (in affiliation with Summit Children's Residence Center in Nyack). Summit accepts students from all five boroughs of New York City as well as from Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, and Rockland Counties.The school employs a faculty and clinical staff of 150 professionals, and has a student to teacher-assistant to teacher ratio of 12:1.5:1. It features a staff of job coaches, social workers, speech and occupational therapists, teachers, as well as 1:1 aides as needed. They provide full therapeutic support as well as "focus on the academic, social, emotional, and prevocational development of each child." According to a section of New York Magazine in late 2003, the school had the highest number of student admission forms received—more than 1,000—in the city among "special schools for special kids," with only 35 spaces available, and approximately 300 students overall.Work-based learningHigh school students participate in a work-based learning program; they work as interns at businesses participating in the program. Freshman, sophomores, and juniors work part of the school day once a week with their job coaches (who are often assistant teachers), while seniors travel independently and work the entire school day on Fridays.

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