School Profile
Student Profile
- Ages 5 to 13 – Kindergarten through Grade 8
- Average to superior intelligence
- Children with language-based learning differences such as a specific reading, writing, spelling, and/or math disability
Program Features
- Diagnostic, prescriptive, and therapeutic
- Language-based to improve academic skills
- Multisensory to increase each child’s opportunities for learning
- Individualized and child-centered to work with each child’s strengths and learning needs
- Structured to ensure clear expectations of behavior and academic success
School Features
- Small classes
- Approximately 50% of Hillside students receive financial aid
- Students come from 24 districts in 7 counties in the greater Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas in eastern PA
- Accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary Schools
- Membership in CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education), NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools), PAIS (Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools), and ADVIS (Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools)
