Spectrum Center and Schools

Spectrum Center Schools has been a leader in providing special education services to the San Francisco Bay Area since 1975. Our program was founded as an alternative for students whose disabilities prevented them from attending public school.

Spectrum Center’s educational philosophy is based on the belief that all individuals can learn and lead productive lives in the community when provided the proper learning environment.

The primary responsibility for learning, therefore, rests with those teaching and not those learning. However, even the clearest vision is useless without effective teaching strategies. Spectrum Center has developed an educational and behavioral improvement model well-known for its effectiveness and accountability.

As the needs of each student and school are unique, so must be the service options used to address those needs. Spectrum Center’s menu of services and products can be customized to meet the specific needs of a student or school.

Collaborative Classrooms
Spectrum offers an educational solution on a district campus that provides students with disabilities more access to typically developing peers while being intensive enough to meet their needs. Students receive the individual attention they require and still have access to the benefits of being on a school campus.
Spectrum is accountable to public school districts to provide special education and related services in the district building that meet the educational needs of all enrolled students and follow federal, state and district policies and procedures. Students are provided an environment that is positive, focuses on mastery learning and measures progress to ensure success.
Spectrum can also provide ongoing professional development to build the internal capacity of district personnel to deliver services to students with intensive needs.
Non-Public Schools
Spectrum non-public schools (NPS) are state-approved elementary or secondary schools that specialize in providing services for students with needs so exceptional they can’t be met in a public-school setting. Our NPS offers individual and group counseling; behavior supports; social skills instruction; speech, occupational and physical therapy and academic assistance according to a student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) in a separate setting. Many of these programs are located on public school campuses, where students can participate in school with their typically developing peers.
Students receive individualized and targeted behavioral interventions to address their specific areas of need, with the goal of a successful transition back into the least restrictive environment or into adult life after high school.
Therapeutic Day Schools
Spectrum Therapeutic Day Schools educate students who require a more structured environment with intensive mental health supports to learn academic, behavior and social skills. We provide individual and group counseling, behavior supports, social skills instruction and academic assistance according to the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP).

Several Campuses are available in the Bay Area.

Antioch Campus – Bidwell High School
Camden
Chino Hills – CVUSD Alternative Education Center
Delta
Jurupa Valley – Ina Arbuckle Elementary
Long Beach – Hoover Middle School
Long Beach – Lakewood High School
Long Beach – Lindbergh STEM Middle School
Long Beach – MacArthur Elementary
Mission Valley
Peninsula
Rossier Park Elementary
Rossier Park High School
San Jose
Solano
Tara Hills
Valley

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ESA (Educational Services of America) is the nation’s leading provider of behavior therapy and alternative and special education programs for children and young adults. ESA offers children and young people the opportunity to create successful, independent futures by providing behavioral and educational supports to help them reach their full potential.
ESA operates three service divisions—Early Autism Project (EAP), Ombudsman Educational Services and Spectrum Center Schools and Programs.  ESA website www.esa-education.com/