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The student population enrolled at Parkhill School includes approximately ninety students, ages 6 to 21 years of age, in grades 1 - 12, with average or better intellectual abilities and specific learning disabilities coupled with significant social, emotional, behavioural, and vocational difficulties.

Currently, elementary and middle school students compromise 60% of the student body, with secondary students compromising the remaining 40%.  Over half the students (56.8%) have Emotional Disturbances as their primary eligibility to receive special education services.  The balance of students is distributed over Specific Learning Disabilities (16%), Other Health Impaired (13.6%), a combination of the three categories (9.9%), and other (3.7%).

The students of Parkhill represent a diversity of ethnic, cultural, racial and SEC backgrounds, i.e. Caucasian (37.04%), Hispanic (37.04%), African American (17.28%), Mixed and Other (8.64%).  These distributions are fairly representative of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in Parkhill's area.  Male students do outnumber female students by 5:1 (84% vs. 16%).

Approximately 18,000 special education students attend nearly 400 state-certified nonpublic schools in California.  LAUSD enrolls approximately 4000 (6%) of it's 650,000 students in nonpublic schools.  These are students for which there is no appropriate educational placement in their local public school.  These are students who, through no fault of their own, have a history of complex trauma and primary attachment disorders; exposure to drug use inutero, domestic violence, child sexual and/or physical abuse and neglect, drug abuse, and abandonment; histories of multiple out-of-home placements, psychiatric hospitalization, residential treatment, and incarceration.  These are the students for whom a small, personalized, protective, structured, therapeutic school setting is appropriate for them to learn and develop  normally.   To learn more about our students, click on the following link:  Academia

Parkhill School has had over 4,000 students pass through their hallowed halls.  To learn more about Parkhill Success Stories, click on the following link:  Success