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Grove School is a coeducational, college preparatory therapeutic boarding school for students in grades seven to twelve, with an optional post-graduate transition year. It is located in Madison, CT, about twenty miles from New Haven, CT. It utilizes a year-round trimester calendar, with four two-week breaks. Grove School serves about one hundred-twenty residential and twenty day students during the year, and has grown since its founding in 1934 by Dr. Jess Perlman.
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History
In 1934, Grove School was founded by Dr. Jess Perlman as an all-boys residential treatment center, where he worked until 1956. From 1956 to 1986, Dr. Jack Sanford Davis served as Executive Director. In 1986, Richard L. Chorney purchased Grove School, converted it into a for-profit propriety corporation with a board of directors, and appointed himself Executive Director and President & CEO. In the fall of 1991, Grove School became coeducational. In 2000, Peter J. Chorney replaced his father as the Executive Director.
Students
Grove School serves a student body with various diagnoses and struggles, sometimes with comorbidity. Common problems include mood disorders, school truancy, anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, OCD, Tourette's, ODD, eating disorders, NVLD, Asperger's, PTSD, learning differences, and borderline personality traits. Grove School typically does not accept students who may be delinquent, chronic runaway, actively psychotic, excessively disruptive, violent, dependent substance abusers, actively suicidal, severely self-injurious, sex offenders, or fire setters.
Most students hail from the Tristate Area and the New York metropolitan area, although some are from states including California, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Texas, and countries including Kuwait, Austria, and Haiti.
Faculty
Members of the employee community include about thirty teachers, twelve faculty advisors, four psychiatrists and a nurse-practitioner, twelve therapists, nine nurses, and a physician's assistant, in addition to administrative and maintenance staff, a business office, care staff, and many others. An advisor, therapist, psychiatrist, and academic case manager comprise a treatment team, which maintains close contact with a student's family and school district, if applicable. Most faculty work full-time. Of the thirty teachers, about twenty are dorm counselors as well. Many are recruited from local teaching colleges, and they typically stay on staff for no more than two years Special education teachers also work as academic case managers. Advisors, who are assigned to about five students, double as administrators-on-duty or directors. Therapists typically have an LCSW, PhD, or other credential, and psychiatrists may also work as therapists. Many of the clinicians maintain private practices aside from Grove. Nurses either have an LPN or RN degree, and Grove recently added a physician's assistant to work as the director of the health center. Leading the program, Richard Chorney is the President & CEO of Grove School, and his son, Peter Chorney, is the Executive Director. Dr. Richard Rubin is the clinical director, Sean Kursawe is the principal, and Bob Ruggiero is the education director.
College placement
Students graduate from Grove School to matriculate to a variety of two or four year colleges, or to work in a number of vocations. Some of the most popular college choices include Middlesex Community College, Mitchell College, Morehouse College, Central Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, the University of Connecticut, Curry College, Yale University, and Keene State College.
Cocurricular activities
"Grove School has a varsity and junior varsity coed soccer team and basketball team. Grove School also has a boys' varsity and junior varsity baseball team, and a girls' softball team. In the 2005–2006 school year, there was a poetry club, outdoors club, and student council. The student council traditionally plans a pep rally, fall carnival, junior-senior prom, dress-up dinners (which is a semi-formal dress code), and Halloween Dance. Regular activities are also an important part of the campus life.
The school also operates the ASTEE (Alternative Site Therapeutic and Educational Experience) program. The ASTEE program operates throughout the year and exposes students to wilderness and cultural experiences in the US, Caribbean. and Central America. These opportunities, which Grove School has been offering to students for more than 20 years, strengthen students’ sense of community while helping them to build new and meaningful relationships with their mentors and peers."
Campus
Grove School is situated on ninety acres of marshes and woodlands, directly adjacent to the I-95 highway. The dormitories include White House, Middle House, the Olshin Hall, Lodge, Perlman Hall, the Redlich Hall, the Patch, Charles Hall, Grey House, Loomis Hall, Koegler Dormitory, Red House, Blue House, and Tessler House. Grove has constructed many new buildings in the past five years. In 2010, the Alice Chorney Education Center, with nine classrooms, a science lab, a conference room, and a media center. In 2011, an office was built for the administrators-on-duty (AODs) during the day. In 2012, the Robert A. J. Ranieri III Athletics and Recreation Center was completed. In 2015, construction was finished on two new dormitories, the Tessler-Olshin duplex. Finally, in January 2016, a new dining hall was opened with new office space for therapists that opened in September.