Dr. Franklin Perkins School
The Doctor Franklin Perkins School is a private special education school located in Lancaster, Massachusetts. It is a K-12 school serving children and adolescents with a range of psychiatric, social, emotional, and executive functioning issues.[1] It provides residential, day treatment, and community-based services.[2]
The school was founded in Newton, Massachusetts in 1896 as the Hillbrow School. Child psychologist Franklin Haskins Perkins took it over in 1922 and moved it to Lancaster in 1924, changing its name; in the 1930s it educated students to age 16.[3]
Since 1934 it has occupied an estate built in 1910 as the summer home of Mrs. Iver Johnson, whose husband had been a sporting goods manufacturer and store owner;[3][4] the original house is now an administration building, and the 120-acre campus includes classroom buildings, a pool and fitness center,[5] and an auditorium. A Child Development Center offering daycare to Lancaster residents opened on the campus in January 2008.[6] There are six residential buildings, each having offices for the presiding clinician, the nurse and directors.
Formerly entirely residential and founded to educate developmentally disabled children, the school changed its mission in the late 20th and early 21st centuries to serve the mentally ill and mentally disabled. In 2015 it had 150 students, a third of them resident on campus,[5] and of normal intelligence.[7] The school aims to enable students to catch up and return to other schools at the normal grade level for their age, which takes an average of two years.[7] It has two year-round Asperger syndrome programs, one for children ages 12 to 18, the other a college and career program for young adults 18 years and older who have completed high school.[1] There is also an assisted living center for former residential students.[5] The ratio at the houses is usually 1 staff person to 4 clients.
Charles Conroy was CEO of the school from 1987 to 2015.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Who We Serve, Perkins School
- ↑ History of Perkins, Perkins School
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Porter Sargent (1938). A Handbook Of Private Schools For American Boys And Girls An Annual Survey. 22. Boston. pp. 292–93 – via Internet Archive. Search this book on
- ↑ Heather Maurer Lennon (2001). Lancaster. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia. p. 31. ISBN 9780738509044. Search this book on
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Thomas Farragher (November 13, 2011). "Lancaster school and its leader reflect evolution of care for mentally challenged in Massachusetts". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016.
- ↑ "Perkins holds open house for new child development center". Worcester Telegram & Gazette. January 4, 2008 – via Free Library.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Helping Others" (PDF). Charitably Speaking. Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. March 2015. pp. 1–2.
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Coordinates: 42°27′38.33″N 71°40′18.25″W / 42.4606472°N 71.6717361°W
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