New Horizon School & Learning Center After School and Summer Programs

New Horizon School & Learning Center After School and Summer Programs offers individualized learning programs for learning different and dyslexic students. The programs integrate educational therapy, remedial assistance, creative expression, and self-esteem building using a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach. After school and summer programs provide services for students from elementary age through adulthood.

• Ages: 7–18 years old

New Horizon School & Learning Center is a private, nonprofit, state-certified day school and after school program. Its mission is to serve students demonstrating average to above-average intelligence who experience learning difficulties and to provide a therapeutic learning environment to support success at New Horizon School or in other educational settings. The day school serves middle and high school students in grades 7–12, and coursework follows California State Standards and is often transferable for secondary students. The school is based on a family model, with small classrooms that form an intimate, nurturing learning environment and a positive social-emotional learning environment that promotes self-awareness, self-advocacy, social awareness, self-management, decision making, academic skills, and goal setting. Students may have been diagnosed with a specific language deficit, perceptual difficulties, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, non-verbal learning disabilities, and/or attention issues, and some students may also experience school phobia or depression. Many students have gone undiagnosed and often feel deeply discouraged by previous school failures, and typically they have been unsuccessful learners in traditional classrooms.

New Horizon School & Learning Center is a state-certified, non-profit educational organization and is staffed by teachers certified in a variety of specialties. New Horizon School & Learning Center invites friends of the school and the community to donate to the school.

A Learning Disabilities Specialist at Santa Rosa Junior College reports that students who have graduated from New Horizon School come to the junior college well prepared to meet the demands of college, tend to have excellent learning strategies, and are able to articulate what academic accommodations they require. This specialist also notes that New Horizon students have realistic goals and use their planning skills together with college services, and that New Horizon teachers and staff continue to support their students into the college years and beyond. The same specialist states that New Horizon has been an important option in the community for students with learning disabilities or learning differences, with a small environment, high student expectations, and a standard of excellence, and has referred students for school, summer school, tutoring, or private consultations.

Last updated March 28, 2026.