Wisdom Ranch Vocational Gap Year vs. Cherry Gulch
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School Overview
Overview
Our Vocational Gap Year provides young adult men, age 18-24, intensive instruction, training, and real-world experience in skilled trades.
As you master carpentry, welding, or auto mechanics, you also experience what it means to put in a full day's work and experience the satisfaction that comes with it. You learn how to work effectively for and with people. You learn what happens when corners are cut, when quality is sacrificed when mistakes are covered up. In short, you learn what it takes to have pride in your work.
Our program is dynamic and immersive. Your course of study is individually tailored to your interests and can shift as those interests shift. Because our enrollment is limited, our instructors can give each student the time and attention they need.
Our campus rests on a 4000-acre ranch in the mountains of Idaho. Here you not only receive formal instruction in trades such as carpentry, welding, and auto mechanics, you also have the opportunity to apply those skills on the ranch. There is no better "on-the-job-training".
Cherry Gulch is a ranch style therapeutic boarding school designed specifically for 10 to 14 year old boys. Some of our boys turn 15 while with us.
We are located on over 200 acres of beautiful land outside of Boise Idaho.
Our services are appropriate for boys with various difficulties including oppositional-defiance, ADHD, learning differences, low self-esteem, poor motivation, anger, family conflict, adoption, anxiety, depression and other behavioral and emotional problems.
Every experience is educational and therapeutic in a fun purposeful environment.
We strive to offer the most effective therapeutic strategies into daily life.
We offer at 10-15 hours of scheduled therapeutic services a week but much more therapy takes place as life unfolds as therapeutic moments arise.
Our goal is to provide early intervention and prevention to help these boys reach their full potential and to become well-rounded pro-social young men.
Grades Offered
10-12
6-9
Blue Ribbon School
No
No
Offers Post-Graduate Year
Yes
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Learning Difference Programs
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Yes
Learning Programs Supported
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Dsylexia, Dysgraphia, NVLD
Year Founded
2001
2010
Students Body
Total Students
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40 students
Student Body Type
All-boys
All-boys
% Students of Color
-
14%
Students by Grade
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Students by Grade
Grade 5 Students
-
2
Grade 6 Students
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9
Grade 7 Students
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7
Grade 8 Students
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14
Grade 9 Students
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8
Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers
5 teachers
7 teachers
Average Class Size
4
4
Student-Teacher Ratio
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6:1
Classroom Dress Code
Casual
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Finances and Admission
Admission Deadline
None / Rolling
None / Rolling
Tuition Cost
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$10,400
Tuition Notes
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All inclusive for room and board, school, psychiatry, individual and family therapy, OT, Rec therapy, Equine assisted pyscho therapy
Admissions Director
John W. Tucker
Krista Zimmerman