About
CARES Schools are accredited, non-public schools designed to meet the educational and behavioral needs of students whose behavior prohibits them from succeeding in a traditional classroom setting. The goal of CARES School is for each student to live and learn effectively.
Our fully-accredited schools are located in Hattiesburg and Jackson and are accredited by the Mississippi Department of Education. The work completed at the CARES School is fully transferable to Mississippi public schools.
Features
CARES Schools provide quality, individualized instruction that meets the needs of each student. While attending CARES School, the child learns social, life, and leisure skills to maximizing their academic achievement. With small class sizes of eight to ten students, students get personal attention so they can attain their best. We provide a licensed teacher and a behavioral specialist for each classroom. With a multi-disciplinary strengths-based approach, each student participates on a child and family team to coordinate academic and behavioral health supports.
Solution Offers
- Small class sizes
- Trauma-focused classrooms
- Licensed Teachers and Behavioral Educational Interventionists in each classroom
- Intense, individualized educational and therapeutic services that meet the needs of each student
- Specialized classrooms for children on the autism spectrum
- Solutions designed to improve relationships at home and in the community
- Access to a full continuum of services
- Extended school year
- Referral is required by the student’s school district
- Transportation provided by student’s school district
Eligibility
- Special Education ruling in:
- Autism (AU)
- Developmentally Disabled (DD)
- Emotionally Disabled (EMD)
- Intellectual Disability (ID)
- Multiple Disability (MD)
- Other Health Impairment (OHI)
- Exhausted all possible courses of intervention available to them within the public-school setting
- Referral is required by the student’s school district