The Top 110 Schools & Programs in the network of private parent-choice residential schools and programs for struggling teens.

The following list of schools and programs are those that have the best reputation among Independent Educational Consultants who make a living helping parents find the best school or program for their children needing that kind of residential help.

Every year we survey the leading Independent Educational Consultants asking them to mark those schools and programs they feel provide an effective and safe intervention for the appropriate children. What we are doing is measuring the reputation of these schools and programs among picky and demanding professionals who are always looking for good quality. Making good recommendations is how their educational consulting practices survive. We collate the responses for the more than 500 schools and programs we are trying to track, score and rank them. The following are those that scored in the top one hundred and it would be a fair statement that there is a consensus that these are good quality schools and programs, of course for the appropriate child.

More information on each one of these schools and programs will be available in the series of digital ebooks that we will be publishing soon to replace the single print volume we have published in the past. The title THE PARENT EMPOWERMENT HANDBOOK™ we will continue to use. To be notified when they are published, please Subscribe to receive our notices. - Lon



AIM HOUSE - Boulder, CO
AIM HOUSE FOR WOMEN - Boulder, CO
ALPINE ACADEMY - Salt Lake City, UT
ASPEN INSTITUTE - Syracuse, UT
ASPIRO - Riverton, UT
AULDERN ACADEMY - Siler City, NC (Sequel)
BENCHMARK TRANSITIONS - Loma Linda, CA
BERKSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY - South Hadley, MA
BIRDSEYE BOYS RANCH - Spanish Fork, UT
BRANDON HALL SCHOOL - Atlanta, GA
BREHM PREPARATORY SCHOOL - Carbondale, IL
CARLBROOK SCHOOL - Halifax, VA
CATALYST RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT, LLC - Brigham City, UT
CENTER FOR CHANGE - Orem, UT
CHANGE ACADEMY OF THE OZARKS (CALO) - Lake Ozark, MO
CHAPEL HAVEN - Tucson, AZ
CHEROKEE CREEK BOYS SCHOOL - Westminster, SC
CHERRY GULCH - Emmett, ID
CHRYSALIS, INC. - Eureka, MT
COOPER RIIS - Mill Spring, NC
DISCOVERY ACADEMY - Provo, UT
DISCOVERY RANCH - Mapleton, UT
DRAGONFLY TRANSITIONS - Klamath Falls, OR
EAGLE HILL SCHOOL - Hardwick, MA
ECHO SPRINGS TRANSITION STUDY CENTER - Bonners Ferry, ID
ELEMENTS WILDERNESS PROGRAM - Huntington, UT
FLORENCE CRITTENTON - Helena, MT
FOREST HEIGHTS LODGE - Evergreen, CO
FORMAN SCHOOL - Litchfield, CT
FOUR CIRCLES RECOVERY - Horse Shoe, NC
GATEWAY ACADEMY - Salt Lake City, UT
GLENHOLME SCHOOL - Washington, CT
GOULD FARM - Monterey, MA
GOW SCHOOL - South Wales, NY
GRAND RIVER ACADEMY - Austinburg, OH
GRAY WOLF RANCH - Port Townsend, WA
GREENWOOD SCHOOL - Putney, VT
HAMPSHIRE COUNTRY SCHOOL - Rindge, NH
HIGH FRONTIER, INC. - Fort Davis, TX
IN BALANCE TRANSITIONAL LIVING - Tucson, AZ
INTERMOUNTAIN - Helena, MT
ISLAND VIEW RTC - Syracuse, UT
KILDONAN SCHOOL - Amenia, NY
KING'S DAUGHTER'S SCHOOL - Columbia, TN
KOLOB CANYON RTC - Murray, UT
LA EUROPA ACADEMY - Murray, UT
LANDMARK COLLEGE - Putney, VT
LANDMARK SCHOOL - Prides Crossing, MA
LEELANAU SCHOOL - Glen Arbor, MI
LITTLE KESWICK SCHOOL - Keswick, VA
LIVING WELL TRANSITIONS - Boulder, CO
LOGAN RIVER ACADEMY - Logan, UT
MAPLE LAKE ACADEMY - Payson, UT
MAPLE LAKE ACADEMY FOR BOYS - Payson, UT
MAPLEBROOK SCHOOL - Amenia, NY
MARVELWOOD SCHOOL - Kent, CT
MENNINGER CLINIC - Houston, TX
MERIDELL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER - Liberty Hill, TX
MONTANA ACADEMY - Kalispell, MT
MONTCALM SCHOOL FOR BOYS - Albion, MI
MOONRIDGE ACADEMY - Murray, UT
MOUNTAIN SPRINGS PREPARATORY ACADEMY - Cedar City, UT
NEW HAVEN FEMALE RTC - Provo, UT
NEW LEAF ACADEMY - Bend, OR
NEW LIFESTYLES, INC. - Winchester, VA
OPEN SKY WILDERNESS THERAPY - Durango, CO
OUTBACK WILDERNESS EXPEDITIONS - Lehi, UT
OXBOW ACADEMY - Springville, UT
OXFORD ACADEMY - Westbrook, CT
PACIFIC QUEST - Hilo, HI
PASADENA VILLA - Orlando, FL
PHELPS SCHOOL - Malvern, PA
RIVERVIEW SCHOOL - East Sandwich, MA
ROCK POINT SCHOOL - Burlington, VT
ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (Child & Adolescent Center) - Oconomowoc, WI
SALT CENTER AT UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - Tucson, AZ
SAN MARCOS TREATMENT CENTER - San Marcos, TX
SANDHILL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - Los Lunas, NM
SECOND NATURE BLUE RIDGE - Clayton, GA
SECOND NATURE CASCADES - Bend, OR
SECOND NATURE ENTRADA - Santa Clara, UT
SECOND NATURE FOOTSTEPS - Clayton, GA
SECOND NATURE WILDERNESS PROGRAM - Duchesne, UT
SOAR (Success Oriented Achievement Realized) - Balsam, NC
SOAR ACADEMY - Balsam, NC
SOBER COLLEGE - Woodland Hills, CA
SOLSTICE - Layton, UT
SOLTREKS - Two Harbors, MN
SPRUCE MOUNTAIN INN - Plainfield, VT
SUMMIT ACHIEVEMENT - Stow, ME
SUMMIT ACHIEVEMENT TRAVERSE - Stow, ME
SUMMIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL - Kalispell, MT
SUWS OF THE CAROLINAS - Old Fort, NC
SUWS SEASONS - Old Fort, NC
TALISMAN - Zirconia, NC
TALISMAN ACADEMY - Hendersonville, NC
TELOS - Orem, UT
TRUE NORTH WILDERNESS PROGRAM - Waitsfield, VT
UINTA ACADEMY - Lewiston, UT
VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL - North Brookfield, MA
VISTA ADOLESCENT TREATMENT CENTER - Magna, UT
VISTA AT DIMPLEDELL CANYON - Sandy, UT
VIVE! - Boulder, CO
WATERFALL CANYON ACADEMY - Ogden, UT
WEDIKO SCHOOL - Windsor, NH
WEDIKO SUMMER PROGRAM - Windsor, NH
WINCHENDON SCHOOL - Winchendon, MA
WINGATE WILDERNESS THERAPY - Kanab, UT
WISDOM RANCH SCHOOL - Arco, ID
WOODHALL SCHOOL - Bethlehem, CT

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Our sincere thanks to the following Educational Consultants who generously shared their time, thoughts and experience about which schools and programs should be included in this Edition. The final decision for inclusion of any specific school or program is based on whether or not there is a positive consensus among those professionals as indicated by our survey. The generous sharing by the following professionals gave us many new insights on which to base our inclusion decision. - Lon

Shayna Abraham, Walnut Creek, CA
Diane Arnold, Lafayette, CO
Harriett Bay, Los Angeles, CA
Judi Bessette, Nashotah, WI
Stephen Bozak, Clifton Park, NY
Linda Cain, Boulder, CO
Kay Davison, Newport Beach, CA
Loi Eberle, Naples, ID
Nancy Edwards, Skaneateles, NY
Paula Feldman, Corona del Mar, CA
Harriet Gershman, Evanston, IL
Leslie Goldberg, Braintree, MA
Renee Goldberg, Worcester, MA
Alicia Goldman, San Francisco, CA
Elizabeth Gordon, Manitowoc, WI
Jean Hague, Atlanta, GA
Lynn Hamilton, Santa Barbara, CA
Pam Jobin, Denver, CO
Lindy Kahn, Houston, TX
Paula Leslie, Columbus, OH
Anne Lewis, Santa Barbara, CA
Karen Mabie, Glencoe, IL
Nancy Masland, Tucson, AZ
Judge Mason, Sedona, AZ
Steve Migden, Roslyn Heights, NY
Martha Moses, Miami, FL
Virginia Reiss, Larkspur, CA
Judi Robinovitz, Boca Raton, FL
Marcia Rubinstein, West Hartford, CT
Marla Simon, Menlo Park, CA
Teri Solochek, West Hills, CA
Jeanette Spires, Lake Forest, IL
Larry Stednitz, Morro Bay, CA
Peter Sturtevant, Washington, DC
Pamela Tedeschi, Chevy Chase, MD
Imy Wax, Deerfield, IL