Sappo School

(Sappo’s Holistic Approach and Procedures in Education) Strategies, Sappo has been successful in changing the way children learn. Sappo School is a New York State approved college preparatory school with an approved special education department. We cater to students who work best in an intimate environment with lots of personal attention and attachments. There are no more than 12 students per class, while the average class size is 8 students. The dropout rate is 0% and over 90% of our graduates go on to the colleges of their choice. A high percent of our graduates receive substantial scholarships toward their post-graduate education

Our program promotes the truism that diverse needs can be met, no matter what the origin or nature of those needs may be. Sappo’s unique program is able to bend to the needs of the student, rather than unrealistically expecting the student to bend to the rigid demands of an impersonal institution. Individual differences become a source of stimulation and richness that often sparks mutual stimulus toward achieving higher goals. Diversity is identified, nurtured, and addressed using an all encompassing range of criterion-based responses from our team of educators. As the only research based private school on Long Island, Sappo is able to address the needs of the regular and special education student with careful and purposeful instruction. Research has taught us to respectfully consider that learning best happens when social-emotional components of the child are in place. Sappo uses an SEL (Social-emotional Learning) approach that is made complete by the holistic nature of the program. Our inclusion setting us to remove all barriers between the general education and regular education student, in order to give the right to participate in the education process free from a socially limited exclusion policy. Teaching to the whole child, rather than to his or her independent parts, is the basis for all of our work and the reason for the remarkable success we have had.