Best Private Special Education Schools In Houston Near Me

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Hear what families, faculty, and students have to say about the transformative work being done at Monarch!


Students with autism spectrum disorder, AD/HD, and learning disorders, combining academic rigor with therapeutic practices that address each student’s specific needs.

The Monarch School is dedicated to serving the educational needs of individuals with neurological differences by offering a unique, therapeutic learning environment where active minds are challenged, all are treated with respect and dignity, learning is a joy, and wisdom is the outcome.


All teachers are degreed; many have advanced degrees, some of the fields include: education, special education and psychology. All are experienced in child development and teaching students with diverse learning needs.


Our therapeutic school, which offers each student a curriculum that uniquely blends psychology and education to provide a highly individualized program to meet the child’s emotional, social and academic needs.


The Monarch School admits all qualified students to the privileges, programs and activities made available to the student body. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender or national origin in the administration of our admission, or financial aid program, and we adhere to the policies stated in the policy handbook.


The Monarch School has a rolling admissions policy, whereby students may be enrolled at the beginning of each new quarter as space becomes available.

4worldlovers: Gateway Academy is a unique school in Houston, Texas that serves 6th-12th grade students with academic and social challenges. We opened our doors in 2006, committed to teaching traditional academics, while also meeting the social and emotional needs of our students with learning and social differences. Over the last fifteen years, our work has been to create a safe space that provides students with the opportunities for identity exploration, learning self-awareness, and practicing self-advocacy.

As a team, we consistently gauge our success against two measurements: our impact on individual families and our impact on the community.

We consider an individual student a “success” when they are able to move into a workplace or academic setting with confidence, operating within their community with a sense of direction and purpose. Our program aims to provide the education and experiences necessary to foster self-advocacy skills that will ultimately lead our graduates to a life of self-sufficiency. So to us, success isn’t simply about a high school diploma – success is about our graduates’ accessibility and initiative to leading a life filled with joy, relationships, and independence after leaving Gateway.

Secondly, we consider ourselves “successful” in delivering our mission to the community when people are more informed about resources, services, and options available to their families after engaging with our staff, our families, and our social media. We believe that the most revolutionary thing we can do, besides being an innovative educational program, is to give resources freely and frequently to all families and providers, to grow a more connected community. This benefits not only our school and families, but all families of children with differences in the greater Houston area.

Our Mission - Gateway Academy serves 6th-12th grade students with academic and social challenges through innovative approaches to learning, physical fitness, and social awareness. Our graduates encounter a changing world with self-advocacy, opening a path to personal significance in college, career, and community.

Our highest priority from the very beginning has been to create a school community where every student feels safe, connected, understood, and supported. This positive environment reshapes attitudes about school, improves the prospects for success in the classroom, and allows the student to bring their best self every day. Over the last 15 years, we have worked with over 300 students and families in the greater Houston area. Our campus is located within the Houston ISD boundaries and our unique programming has served students from 20+ school districts.

4worldlovers: “Having The Arbor School, with teachers who love him as much as we do and have so much understanding and persistence, have enabled what may seem like small conquests to become monumental feats for both Gray and our family. The Arbor School has empowered our family to see a future that we thought was improbable for my grandson – and that is priceless.”


“The Arbor School is a place Cason looks forward to attending every day and it gives our family a since of peace because we know that they are teaching our son to be his very best. It truly takes a village, and our family is very thankful that The Arbor is part of ours. We are so grateful for the teachers and staff at The Arbor and all they have provided to our family and the community. Our family will never be able to repay them for what they do daily. Thank you just doesn’t seem like enough.”

Many of our families have been told not to expect much, if anything at all, for their child’s physical mobility and capacity to learn. But our customized curriculum and low student-teacher ratios ranging from 3:2 to 2:1 have helped countless kids defy the odds stacked against them. Each day we’re amazed by our students’ desire to learn and the joy it brings their families.

“To not be defined by a diagnosis or disability is amazing! And rather than being categorized by what he cannot do, he is nurtured and allowed to learn at his pace in ways that traditional classrooms just do not provide. There is no other place like The Arbor!”

4worldlovers: The Harris School (THS) offers children from PreK3 to grade 6 a chance to succeed. Our specialized curriculum and therapeutic approach help students function at their full potential.


They may have struggled in traditional schools due to underlying social or emotional challenges. This may include anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, PDD, SID, ODD, Bipolar Disorder, Tourette's Syndrome, or high-functioning Autism.

We focus on each student's emotional world and how it impacts their behaviors to help them make lasting change. Students typically stay at THS for 2 to 3 years before transitioning to a more mainstream school.

“The Harris School not only taught my son an amazing array of coping skills but also preserved his love for learning.”

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Improve your student’s spelling, reading and writing abilities through our phonics, manuscript handwriting, and cursive therapy program.

Overcome ADD and ADHD with our brain integration technique that transforms your child’s academic skills in class and improves focus.


Acquire lost math skills and build your student’s foundation in basic math facts, problem solving ability, and develop math vocabulary & concepts.

Establish solid fine motor skills, develop sensory integration, & improve your student’s directionality through brain training exercise/tools.

Our brain training and therapy techniques include helping students with focusing abilities, memory barriers,

Improves visual-motor integration, directionality, mental math skills, and cognitive skill building

Struggling readers become independent readers by acquiring phonemic sounds with words and learning the basics of the English language

Improve auditory memory, reading comprehension, and language processing; develop understanding of paragraph structure, apply acquired spelling rules to writing

Improve phonemic awareness, forming syllables, visual discrimination and sequencing, and apply spelling generalizations

Improve short term memory and auditory sequencing skills through hearing code letters “buzzed” into words; each word is analyzed to improve vocabulary and word usage

Acquire basic math facts, develop problem solving abilities, improve reasoning and logical thinking, develop math vocabulary and concepts

Our unique therapy techniques are derived from Orton-Gillingham among other visual, auditory, and cognitived based excercises. Our Educational Therapy teaches how to learn as opposed to what to learn and helps students become independent learners. Through cognitive brain training, students are able to memorize academic material more efficiently and take on tasks on a more productive manner.

Our school is designed around the philosophy of a good work-life balance. Therefore, we retain are students in school for no more than 7 hours per class day and ensure they get all core classes and necessary electives each week. Homework time is an average of just 1-1.5 hours each day.

As a mother, I found Excelsior Academy and saw a difference in the first day of class. She was placed in a class where she felt like she belonged. My daughter is benefiting from individualized attention at Excelsior; the teacher and the staff show they care about their students. They also worked hard to get my daughter on grade level. My daughter is finally happy to go to school each morning.

At Excelsior the instruction is tailored to the individual student’s need. The teacher customizes curriculum for each child, which allows for self-paced learning. If the student learns the concept then she moves forward or if needed she can continue to review that material. My child made excellent progress and gained confidence at Excelsior. Previously she hated to read but now reads for pleasure!