Centreville Layton School is a private

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school for children with diverse learning styles. Centreville Layton School offers a robust educational and cultural experience for students who learn differently. The program identifies academic and social needs of the individual and provides a curriculum that focuses on problem solving and critical thinking.

History

Centreville Layton School is the result of the merger between

Centreville School Centreville Layton School is a private Delaware school for children with diverse learning styles. Centreville Layton School offers a robust educational and cultural experience for students who learn differently. The program identifies academic an ...

(est. 1974) and Layton Preparatory School.

Admission

Centreville Layton School students may face challenges in one or more of the following areas: * Language processing difficulties *

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* Difficulties with spelling, reading, writing, and math * Fine and gross motor skill delays * Executive functioning disorder *

Social skills A social skill is any competence facilitating interaction and communication with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning these skills is called social ...

Anxiety Anxiety is an emotion which is characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. Anxiety is different than fear in that the former is defined as the anticipation of a future threat wh ...

* Receptive and expressive

language disorder Language disorders or language impairments are disorders that involve the processing of linguistic information. Problems that may be experienced can involve grammar (syntax and/or morphology), semantics (meaning), or other aspects of language. ...

s * Peer relationships * School-related apprehension * Attention issues such as

ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by excessive amounts of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that are pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inapp ...

Accreditations

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (Middle States Association or MSA) was a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association that performed peer evaluation and regional educational accreditation, accreditation of public and priva ...

*Delaware Department of Education

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{{Official, https://centrevillelayton.org/ Educational institutions established in 1974 Private elementary schools in Delaware Schools in Wilmington, Delaware Schools in New Castle County, Delaware Special schools in the United States Private middle schools in Delaware