Hopewell Schools offers an opportunity for older students to learn at their own pace in a safe environment.  In addition to our four preschool classes, we also have a “School Age” classroom and a “Transition Age” classroom.

Our School Age classroom is designed for children kindergarten through age 12.  The students in this class are working on the Extended Content Standards; which is the same content standards that children in public schools learn but it is modified down to meet them at their level.  This classroom is very hands on to help the children learn the standards.  The classroom uses a lot of adaptive equipment in order to help the children thrive.  We help the children get out of their wheelchairs (if they are in one) and use standers, gait trainers, adaptive chairs and more.  Our classroom is designed around the student needs. 

Our Transition Age classroom is designed for teenagers and young adults ages 13 until they graduate from our program which could be at their 22nd birthday.  This classroom is geared toward helping the students be prepared for life outside of the school building.  They work on life skills like going grocery shopping, shopping from a list, paying for purchases, going out to restaurants and more.  They like to interact with the Coshocton County Career Center (although this year with COVID we haven’t been doing that) to go to the Cosmetology lab to get their hair and nails done and go to the cooking class to learn about cooking skills.  We do our best to help the children learn how to be as independent as they possibly can so they can go on to do great things!

Here at Hopewell School we have an amazing opportunity to bring a collaborative and unique learning experience to all of our students.  We are a service provider to all of the public schools in Coshocton County so our students come from each school district.

Each of our preschool classes have 12 students comprised of 8 children on Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and 4 typically developing peers.  We have found that our children on IEP’s learn so much from their typically developing peers; but the typically developing children learn so much from their peers that have IEPs as well.  They learn to be accepting and patient with others.  When they leave our building to go to public schools they are open and welcoming to other kids who may look a little different than they do.

We have four different preschool classrooms in our school.  Two of the classrooms are geared toward the younger students (ages 3-4) and the other two classrooms are geared toward the older kids that are getting ready to transition to kindergarten (ages 4-5).  The reason we have broken up our classrooms in this manner is to help the children learn age appropriate skills.  Our 3 year old students are learning their social skills like how to play and interact with other kids their age.  Our 5 year old students are learning skills that they will take with them to kindergarten such as writing their names, the alphabet, numbers and colors.

All four of our preschool classrooms use the Creative Curriculum which is a center based curriculum.  The children start their day in circle time where they sing, do the calendar for the day, talk about the weather and more.  Then the children break off and go into their learning centers.

Happy Holidays from everyone at the Coshocton County Board of Developmental Disabilities and Hopewell School! Artists from all across our county submitted photos of them making beautiful holiday themed pieces! We hope you enjoy the amazing artistic talents of everyone that participated!