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The Golden Key is an accredited non-public special needs charter school serving the needs of children with Autism and other developmental disabilities.
Our educational services are available for students from multiple counties and school districts.
As a Jobs and Family Services provider, parents who qualify financially can place children here for subsidized before and after care services.
We are also an Ohio Autism and Jon Peterson Scholarship provider that affords the student's education, intervention and therapy with no out-of-pocket expense.
State of Ohio\'s Autism Scholarship & Jon Peterson Scholarship (categories 2-6) provider. No out of pocket expense for families who are eligible for educational services.
Admissions Director
Gina Bannevich
School Notes
The Golden Key is a nonprofit, nonpublic specialized Charter
school that offers preschool intervention for ages 3-5 for students
on the autism spectrum and grades K-8 for students on the autism
spectrum and other cognitive disabilities. The Golden Key is the
only school in the region that is able to serve students on the
autism spectrum and other cognitive disabilities at no cost to
families facing these life-long journeys. As the only school who
provides quality education and intervention, it is a scholarship
based school not a tuition based. It accepts the state of Ohio
Autism or Jon Peterson Scholarship for students in the Stark County
Region (Stark, Wayne, Tuscarawas, Portage, Lower Summit, and
others) or any student who meets the eligibility requirements in
the state if need be. These scholarships cover the cost of the
multi-discipline approach the school takes on for each student.
Because of these scholarships students receive all education,
intervention, occupational, physical, speech therapies all in one
location. No other provider of these scholarship does this for the
community at no extra cost to a family.
The Golden Key is fully accredited under Ohio Department of
Education and Ohio Job and Family Services. The preschool
intervention is a Step-Up-To Quality 4-Star ODJFS program. The K-8
school follows Ohio Learning Standards - Extended curriculum
requirements. Additionally, staff are certified in SOS Food School
Therapy, Social-Thinking, Interoception Therapy, Relationship
Development Intervention, behavioral analysis, and life skills.
Students also receive art, music, library science and technology to
round out the curriculum to support transition of students into
society to obtain a quality of life. These various certifications
and methodologies are included in the curriculum that each student
receives when attending The Golden Key. The Golden Key also offers
small class sizes with a 3:2 student to staff ratios. The
classrooms are shaped on students' abilities and function levels in
academics, behavior and social-emotional.
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