Our Mission

Foothills Academy was established in 1979 with a dual purpose:

1. To offer a fulltime educational and treatment program for students with severe learning disabilities, and

2. To provide to the greater community, a Community Services component consisting of assistance to professionals and parents as well as research, tutoring, child and youth programs, inservice, lectures and the publishing of materials relevant to the learning disabled child.

Foothills Academy School accepts students between the ages of six and eighteen who have experienced ongoing difficulty with the regular or special education programs offered to them in other settings and who have been identified as severely learning disabled. These children typically have average or above average intelligence, display few signs of emotional/behavioral dysfunction and are significantly behind their peers in academic pursuits.