UT SUCCESS Academy

Children of Hope Academy is a nonprofit school in St. George for students with disabilities, grown out of the National Association for Child Development. The founder started with a handful of individuals coming to her home each day to work NACD programs after her own daughter was born with Down syndrome, and she went on to lead NACD chapters in St. George and Hawaii. In 2008 the school took over a run-down donated building and rebuilt it with community labor, materials, and money. Daily instruction is built around each student's individualized NACD program, worked one on one, and the school depends heavily on community volunteers to deliver it. Tutors are matched to a student for two to three hour blocks, one or more days a week. The weekly schedule includes Spanish Monday through Thursday, a Friday cooking class focused on simple meals students can make at home, and physical education adapted for students with physical limitations. Operations lean on donations rather than on a published tuition schedule. Call the school for the details that decide fit. Ages served, cost, and how enrollment works are not spelled out publicly. Children of Hope Academy is at 1008 E 200 S in St. George, at 435-272-4575 or nacdcoha@gmail.com.

Desert Hills High School serves grades 10 through 12 at 828 East Desert Hills Drive in St. George, Utah, as part of the Washington County School District. Its teams compete as the Thunder. Academic departments include math, science, social studies, language arts, foreign language, fine arts, career and technical education, and special education. The school also runs a counseling office, a media center, athletics, and student clubs, plus a Teen Center staffed by intervention aides. The special education department is staffed with resource teachers covering severe resource and resource math, resource aides, and special education teachers. Students and families access district services such as new student registration, PowerSchool, and student health resources through the Washington County School District.

Post High School is a community-based transition program in the Washington County School District, located at 2040 W. 2000 North in St. George, Utah. It provides special education services specific to each individual student. Its vision is to build a community in which students acquire the skills and knowledge that lead to responsible citizenship and individual independence. Programming is organized around five areas: education and instruction, career and employment, IEP related services, community experiences, and post-school adult living. IEP services include individualized instruction in math, reading, and writing, transition services covering independent living, employment, cooking, and cleaning, speech services, and physical therapy using gait trainers, standers, mats, and movement work. The employment transition curriculum moves students through preemployment skills, supported job sampling in the community with school staff, independent job samples, and paid employment for students who can complete applications and interviews. Related service providers include speech, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and a psychologist, and instructional staff include para-educators and registered behavior technicians. School hours are 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday with an early out on Friday.