Coralwood Foundation

Coralwood School is the only public school in DeKalb County dedicated to serving preschool through kindergarten children in an inclusion model.  Please make your tax-deductible donation here.

Our research-based educational model includes 12 collaborative and co-teaching classrooms in which six children with special needs and 10-14 typically developing children are educated together. Research shows that this model results in significant gains for special education students, including higher levels of social play, more appropriate social interactions and greater gains in language, cognitive and motor development. Additionally, Coralwood has four self-contained classrooms that serve children who need a higher level of support. Children in the self-contained classes engage in multiple learning experiences with typically developing children throughout the school day. The classrooms at Coralwood are led by highly specialized teachers and para-professionals who teach to a broad set of students with varied needs. The teachers work closely with the following therapists: speech/language, occupational, physical, vision, hearing, behavioral and recreational. Primarily, these therapists provide services to children in the classroom and include both children with special needs and typically developing children in various therapies.

The Coralwood Foundation sponsors enriching experiences for students, including in-school field trips. This past school year, the Alliance Theatre for the Very Young made multiple visits to Coralwood to incorporate cultural arts into our programming. This is always an exciting experience for our students. The Foundation also focuses our impact on specialized training for teaching staff and fulfilling our long term goals to provide excellence in inclusion education.