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We understand that kids need more than a safe haven from a life of crisis, trauma and neglect. That’s why we champion their best interests – empowering each of them to transcend their circumstances – with positive support and consistent, ongoing guidance. We believe everyone deserves a healthy childhood, a caring family, and a chance to learn, grow and change course. Allendale is a place where kids have the opportunity to restore their lives and discover a better future. We believe in every kid until they can believe in themselves. Founded in 1897, Allendale is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to excellence and innovation in the care, treatment, education and advocacy for families, children and youth with serious emotional, mental and behavioral health challenges.

The Quad Preparatory School transforms the lives of twice-exceptional students -- gifted children with learning differences -- by redefining the experience of school. Our unparalleled and personalized model fully integrates social and emotional learning with engaging academics. By teaching to the way each individual student learns, we empower them to rise to the level of their talents and go on to contribute to communities of excellence.

City Elementary is a unique school tailored to the intellectual, social, and sensory needs of diverse learners, including those on the autism spectrum, those with attentional issues, and those with sensory integration challenges. By combining the principles of progressive education with gold standard therapeutic supports, City Elementary strives to ensure that every child has the opportunity to reach his or her full potential.

The mission of Calvary Christian Academy is to educate the whole student within a Christian context of spiritual, social, mental, and physical development. As an extension of the ministry of the Church, we exist to help students cultivate a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, to discover and encourage their gifts, and to inspire each student to realize his or her full potential in serving God in spirit and in truth.

At Keystone, our mission is to offer a different approach to high school where students with unique learning styles thrive academically, emotionally and socially. It is Keystone's collaborative vision to be the recognized educational model for individualized support for students who learn differently to become successful, independent thinking, self-sufficient, creative problem solvers who are responsible, contributing members of society.

The John Thomas Dye School, an independent school, provides for its students a program of academic excellence, one both traditional and dynamic, with a commitment to family and community. The school encourages its students to reach their highest individual potential intellectually, artistically and physically; it nurtures their emotional, moral and social development; and it prepares them to meet the challenges of a diverse and competitive world.

The mission of the Pratyush Sinha Foundation is to assist local communities in achieving health and harmony through yoga and mindfulness programs. PSF believes that every child has the potential to become a healthy, happy, and conscious citizen of the world. We believe that we can create healthier communities by teaching children skills that will help them cope with social, economic, and environmental factors

DreamYard is committed to helping transform Bronx schools and communities through the power of innovative, project based arts education. Our schools and students are based in the nation's poorest urban county, with one-third of the Bronx's residents living below the poverty line. In response, DreamYard programs are designed to challenge the cyclical systems of inequality and poverty by empowering youth to discover and develop their best possible selves and to locate meaningful paths and ways to engage with their fellow students, schools, families, and communities. As the largest arts education provider in the Bronx, DreamYard critically impacts the social and intellectual growth of thousands of Bronx youth through safe, positive and creatively challenging programs. DreamYard's team of professional artists partner with classroom teachers and community educators to help students learn how to express, write and perform their own stories. Through year-long programs offered during the school day, after school, on weekends and during the summer, DreamYard supports youth development, enhances life-long learning skills, and promotes creative thinking and expression. DreamYard artists spark an interest in education that often lies latent in our youth. The organization understands that it is imperative to direct a young person's creativity toward positive goals as we strive to develop well-rounded and engaged citizens. Through DreamYard, young people believe that they can have an impact and change their communities and society as a whole. Its projects are catalysts that help teachers and communities propel students and their families into a life-long learning process.

Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS) was founded in 1878 by Felix Adler. His educational vision - to develop individuals who will be competent to change their environment to greater conformity with moral ideals - is as important today as it was when ECFS was founded. We continue to realize that vision by exploring what it means to be an ethical and responsible member of society, valuing inclusion and economic and racial diversity, striving for academic excellence, and teaching students to become independent thinkers through progressive education. ECFS provides educational instruction for approximately 1,670 students in various classes from pre-kindergarten through the twelfth grade. Our school challenges students to reach their highest potential in body, mind and spirit through the humanities, sciences, the arts and physical education.

Founded in 1913 by Miss Ela Hockaday, the Hockaday School is an independent college preparatory day and boarding school for girls. The School prepares girls of strong potential, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade to assume positions of responsibility and leadership in a rapidly changing world by giving them a foundation for living grounded on the traditional four cornerstones: character, courtesy, scholarship, and athletics. Hockaday offers a challenging college preparatory curriculum with Advanced Placement courses, honors courses, interdisciplinary program, and co-curricular classes with St. Mark's School of Texas, a boys' school in Dallas. The faculty consists of 118 full-time teachers and 13 part-time teachers, of whom 68 have a Master's degree, and nine hold Doctoral degrees.

Founded in 1961, it is the mission of Cambridge Friends School to provide an outstanding education. Guided by Quaker principles, we engage students in meaningful academic learning within a caring community strongly committed to social justice. We expect all students to develop their intellectual, physical, creative, and spiritual potential and, through the example of their lives, to challenge oppression and to contribute to justice and understanding in the world.

To prepare its students for admission to and success in college the school offers a rigorous curriculum that meets the university of California a-g requirements, with an emphasis on basic skills and core subject matter in English language arts, mathematics, social studies and science, and a comprehensive support program that promotes healthy youth development, including preparing the students to apply their knowledge and skills for the benefit of the community and environment.