Hill Top Preparatory School

Hill Top Preparatory School
Location
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Coordinates	40°00′57″N 75°21′15″W / 40.0157°N 75.3541°W / 40.0157; -75.3541Coordinates: 40°00′57″N 75°21′15″W / 40.0157°N 75.3541°W / 40.0157; -75.3541
Information
Founded	1971
Enrollment	75-80 students
Average class size	6 students
Athletics	Soccer Cross Country Basketball Tennis Golf Bowling Equestrian
Annual tuition	$47,250
Website	www.hilltopprep.org

The Hill Top Preparatory School is a grade fifth through twelve preparatory day school for students with learning disabilities. It is located in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania,^[1] with a Rosemont address.

History[]

Around the late 1960s there was only a handful of private schools that educated children with learning disabilities. Often the students the appropriate support and understanding. However, Elissa L. Fisher saw that many of these children had a great amount of potential and was determined to meet these needs appropriately and founded Hill Top Prep.

Overall Mission[]

Through the years, Hill Top Prep has offered students community opportunities to learn and explore mostly through their integration of technology, the promotion of activism and in the introduction of new ideas. Hill Top strives to arm their students with the necessary tools and knowledge needed for an easy transition to life after graduation.

COVID-19

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, Hill Top, as with most schools, has had to adjust. Although most of the students in the 2020/2021 school year are learning in person, there is a virtual option. Classes are longer to give time for mask breaks, which makes students have each class every other day, rather than every day. The Linden Halls are now one-way hallways, due to the narrowness of them. Most Middle School classes are in the Linden Halls, and most High School classes are in the Middle School Building, due to more students being in the High School, and the classrooms in the Middle School Building being larger than those in the Linden Halls.

Students with special needs[]

Hill Top has a wide variety of students, many of whom have learning disabilities and disorder of neural developments such as ADHD, ADD, Asperger syndrome, autism, and epilepsy.

Campus[]

The campus is located on the former site of the Booth School.

It currently has five buildings, two of which have had expansions made on them. Two of the buildings are private residences. The other buildings are the mansion/Linden Hall which holds a library, lunch rooms, classrooms, and offices. The middle school includes classrooms and science labs. The carriage house/gymnasium holds the athletic offices and art classrooms. There is a gym east of the carriage house. The long-unoccupied third floor of the mansion was converted into an apartment in 2007 after a massive renovation. Hill Top has recently added a renovation to the carriage house to create a multi-purpose creative space that will further help promote action-based learning.

References[]

• Hill Top Prep. "Hill Top Preparatory History". Archived from the original on 2011-10-20. Retrieved 2011-11-16.

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