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COOK Education Center is a California Department of Education certified non-sectarian, nonpublic school that is part of The Institute for Effective Education’s family of schools. Our school has received the highest commendations for the quality of its education of students with disabilities from the students themselves, from parents, school officials, professors of education, and elected officials.

Our commitment to quality education
The administration and staff of COOK Education Center are committed to implementing evidenced-based teaching and therapy methods to educate elementary and secondary students with the greatest diversity and intensity of disabilities, so that each student achieves a new, higher potential for a quality and contributing life.

A diversity of students
COOK Education Center enrolls up to 150 elementary and secondary students, whose disabilities span nearly the full spectrum of special education eligibility.

• Autism
• Asperger Syndrome
• Down Syndrome
• ADD/ADHD

• Learning Disabilities
• Medical disorders
• Developmental Disabilities
• Behavior & Emotional Disabilities

• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Hearing Impaired
• Multiple Disabilities

“If I had stretchy arms, I’d hug this school.” COOK Education Center Student

Qualified staff and quality programming
COOK Education Center is a highly structured, positive school in which students are taught explicitly how to do the right thing and they are regularly caught doing the right thing and praised for it. It is common for our students to come to enjoy school and make good friends for the first time. We are specialists in serving students with disabilities, including students with significant behavior problems associated with their disabilities and students whose disabilities require an intensely supervised, safe school environment.