Grove School is a coeducational therapeutic boarding

Therapeutic boarding school

A therapeutic boarding school , alternatively known as an emotional growth boarding school, is a boarding school based on the therapeutic community model that offers an educational program together with specialized structure and supervision for students with emotional and behavioral problems,...

 and day school located in Madison, Connecticut

Madison, Connecticut

Madison is a town in the southeastern corner of New Haven County, Connecticut, occupying a central location on Connecticut's Long Island Sound shoreline. The population was 18,812 at the 2000 census....

 which serves grades six to twelve and post-graduates. Madison is a semi-suburban area, about 20 minutes from New Haven

New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...

, Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

. Grove School was founded by Jess Perlman.

Grove School serves students with dyslexia

Dyslexia

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, obsessive compulsive disorder, Asperger syndrome

Asperger syndrome

Asperger's syndrome that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development...

, Tourette's Syndrome

Tourette syndrome

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, Attention Deficit Disorder, Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder

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, Major Depressive Disorder, mild bulimia nervosa

Bulimia nervosa

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 and mild anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa

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. Grove School does not accept students with a diagnosis of moderate to severe cutting, conduct disorder, moderate to severe oppositional defiant disorder or chronic substance abuse

Substance abuse

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 problems.

History

• 1934 - Grove School was founded. It opened as an all boys school.
• 1956 - Dr. J. Sanford Davis becomes the CEO and President
  President
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  .
• 1979 - Fire breaks out in Lodge building killing two students Peter Cooper and Jon Lenoff
• 1986 - Richard Chorney was hired as the executive director
• 1991 - Grove School begins to accept girls.

Students

As of 2005 there were 105 students at Grove School, just one of whom was a day student. There was about a 60:40 male-female student ratio.
The majority of the students were from Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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 and New Jersey

New Jersey

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. Some other states are represented such as Illinois

Illinois

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, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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, Ohio

Ohio

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, California

California

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, Virginia

Virginia

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, and Delaware

Delaware

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.

Faculty

There are 3 psychiatrists, 7 therapists, 30 teachers (24 of whom are also dormitory staff), and 12 advisors. Half the teachers are certified in Special Education in CT and the other half are content area certified in CT. While the student to staff ratio is 4:1 the student to on-duty staff ratio is much lower.

College placement

There is a SAT preparation program available for juniors and seniors which is especially tailored for Grove School.

In the 2004 SAT 20% scored over 600 on verbal, 20% scored over 600 on math and 25% scored over 1200 combined on the 2004 SAT.

Some 2004 and 2005 graduates of Grove School attended the following colleges: Union College

Union College

Union College is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents. In the 19th century, it became the "Mother of Fraternities", as...

, Suffolk University

Suffolk University

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, Ithaca College

Ithaca College

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, Manhattanville College

Manhattanville College

Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 it was known initially as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart...

, Alfred University

Alfred University

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 and others. Since its inception Grove graduates have attended Curry College

Curry College

Curry College is a private liberal arts-based institution in Milton, Massachusetts that started as the School of Elocution in 1879.-History:...

, Mitchell College

Mitchell College

For the North Carolina college formerly known as Mitchell College, see Mitchell Community College.Mitchell College is a liberal arts college located on the banks of the Thames River, in New London, Connecticut, USA...

, Quinnipiac University

Quinnipiac University

Quinnipiac University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in Hamden, Connecticut, United States at the foot of Sleeping Giant State Park...

, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University is a Roman Catholic university located in suburban Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. Sacred Heart was founded in 1963 by the Most Reverend Walter W. Curtis, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Sacred Heart University was the first Catholic university in...

, Merrimack College

Merrimack College

Merrimack College is an independent college in the Roman Catholic, Augustinian tradition located in North Andover, Massachusetts, north of Boston, Massachusetts. It offers undergraduate degrees in business, education, science, engineering, and the liberal arts...

, Clark University

Clark University

Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.Founded in 1887, it is the oldest educational institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates...

, Berkshire Community College

Berkshire Community College

Berkshire Community College is a two-year community college in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It offers associate degrees as well as a transfer program for students to earn credits for transfer to other colleges...

, Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

, Mount Ida College

Mount Ida College

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, University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

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, Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

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, and others.

Some graduates of 2007 and 2008 are or were attending the following colleges: Frostburg State University

Frostburg State University

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, St. Thomas Aquinas College

St. Thomas Aquinas College

St. Thomas Aquinas College is a private four-year liberal arts college in Rockland County, New York that occupies a forty-eight acre campus. Located at 125 Route 340 in Sparkill, New York, the college is named after the medieval philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas...

, New England College

New England College

New England College is a private four-year college in Henniker, New Hampshire, enrolling a total of approximately 1800 undergraduate and graduate students.-History:The school was created in 1946 for students attending college on the G.I...

, UConn, Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University is a public university located in Richmond, Virginia. It comprises two campuses in the Downtown Richmond area, the product of a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968...

, NYIT, Wagner College

Wagner College

Wagner College is a private, co-educational, national liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 total students located atop Grymes Hill in New York City's borough of Staten Island...

, Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges...

, Curry College

Curry College

Curry College is a private liberal arts-based institution in Milton, Massachusetts that started as the School of Elocution in 1879.-History:...

, and Mitchell College

Mitchell College

For the North Carolina college formerly known as Mitchell College, see Mitchell Community College.Mitchell College is a liberal arts college located on the banks of the Thames River, in New London, Connecticut, USA...

.

Statistics of former students who graduate from college are not recorded.

Therapeutic element

Students see a therapist

Psychotherapy

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 twice a week for individual therapy and a psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

 as necessary for medication management. They also meet in group therapy once a week.

There is a nurse's office on campus as well as three nurses and one nurse assistant. The nurses and nurse assistant may refer students to physicians if they show medical need.
Students may also be referred to a registered dietician, an occupational therapist

Occupational therapist

An occupational therapist is trained in the practice of occupational therapy. The role of an occupational therapist is to work with a client to help them achieve a fulfilled and satisfied state in life through the use of "purposeful activity or interventions designed to achieve functional...

, a physical therapist and/or a speech therapist.

Extracurricular activities

Grove School has a varsity and junior varsity coed soccer team and basketball team. Grove School also has a boys' varsity and junior varsity baseball team, and a girls' softball team. In the 2005–2006 school year, there was a poetry club, outdoors club, and Student Council. Traditional activities the student council plans include pep rally, fall carnival, junior-senior prom, dress-up dinners (which is a semi-formal dress code), and Halloween Dance. Regular activities are also an important part of the campus life.

Campus

Grove School has many dorms set up around campus. The dorms include: White House, Middle House, The Olshin, The Lodge, The Perlman, The Redlich, The Patch, Charles House, Grey House, Blue House, and Tesler House.

External links

• Grove School website
• Grove School profile provided by privateschoolreview.com
• Grove School profile provided by petersons.com
• GreatSchools.Net entry on the Grove School