Bradley School Success
Measuring Student Success
Every student’s home district has its own criteria for determining when a child is eligible to leave the Bradley program and return to his or her traditional classroom. These criteria often include regular attendance, demonstrated behavioral improvements, meeting academic standards, and achieving their IEP goals. It is important that students prove they are reliably capable of meeting their goals within the smaller and more predictable environment of The Bradley School before they attempt to fully return to the larger and often more distractible environment of their home district.
All students aged 14 or older also participate in intensive and individualized transition planning that helps them develop their career preparation skills. Through the use of the Education Associates Hands-on Career Awareness Series, our specialized Job Preparation and Independent Living Skills curriculum, on-campus internships, community outings, and structured daily living activities, students develop the communication and organizational skills they will need in the workplace.
The Bradley School also partners with local businesses and organizations that enable individual students to safely transition to off-campus internship experiences.
What Is The Bradley School’s Student Success Rate?
On average, students attend The Bradley School for one to one-and-a-half academic years before fully returning to their home district. Over the past five years, students at The Bradley School have had a 99.9% success rate in achieving a full return to their home district.
”On graduation day at nearly every school in our country, teachers, administrators, mentors, and counselors stand in front of the crowd. They talk about the valedictorian, the star athletes, the number of students who are going here and there after graduation. Those accomplishments are prestigious and wonderful. They often define success for some people, but I am here to tell you about an even braver, more determined group of individuals.
I am here to tell you about our students, a group that wakes up every day and show up. The ones with heart and courage to come to school every day after being a parent all night long, working long hours to help their families. The students that come to school with grief so big that it consumes them. The students with past educational failures, past traumas and needs that make learning, sitting still, and paying attention so difficult that they often must show up with 200% effort whereas others can skate by with 50%.
These students in front of us today are truly soldiers; they made it when it felt the world had given up on them. They found courage to make moves forward, backward and even sideways to make sure that they make it. Success does not always look like a 4.0 GPA, a letterman jacket, a test score, or even a college acceptance letter. Sometimes success is pulling yourself up every day, and walking forward again and again even when you slide backwards. It is choosing to stand tall when all you want to do is fall. These students, every one of them has moved forward from something. They have chosen to overcome every obstacle, move forward, and make it.”
