Benchmark School
Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School
About
Benchmark School’s evidence-based program uniquely equips students with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning differences to become successful and self-confident students.
Through holistic support in a warm environment, Benchmark School helps students in grades 1-8 turn their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. Using research-based practice honed over decades, Benchmark teachers intentionally cultivate and elevate students’ individual talents, helping to grow their self-confidence and self-advocacy.
Benchmark’s instructional methods have unlocked the gift of reading and writing with confidence and fluency for thousands of graduates. While the exclusive Benchmark Approach to learning provides students with the skills to be successful learners in all subjects, Benchmark’s literacy expertise remains a cornerstone of the Benchmark experience.
When graduates leave Benchmark School, they are confident and competent learners who know their learning styles intimately, and can advocate for their own success.
Awards or Certifications:
Member of National Association of Independent Schools, Pennsylvania Association for Independent Schools, and the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools.
What is your teaching or educational philosophy?
The Benchmark Approach is a unique way of teaching children with dyslexia, executive function skills challenges, ADHD, auditory and visual processing differences, and other language-based learning differences.
Developed and refined over decades of research and hands-on experience, the Benchmark Approach teaches children how to be critical, analytical thinkers with excellent emotional, social, and decision-making skills.
The Benchmark Approach is intentional, reflective, supportive, and teaches the whole child. The approach meets children where they are, and creates personalized instruction for each student. Benchmark's expert teachers use an array of tools and strategies—honed over more than fifty years—to scaffold student success.
What is your mission statement?
Benchmark School is committed to helping bright students who learn differently, or have yet to reach their academic potential, develop the confidence, strategies, and knowledge to become lifelong learners, thinkers, and problem-solvers.
Enrollment
180