About Us Our Mission:
The Norman Howard School (NHS) fosters the academic growth of students with learning disabilities while promoting their development as respectful, responsible, resilient citizens. The school advances the understanding of learning disabilities and serves as a resource for the community.
About Us:
The Norman Howard School (NHS) is an independent day school for students with learning disabilities. Located at 275 Pinnacle Rd. in Henrietta, the Norman Howard School provides individualized instruction to students with learning disabilities in grades 5 – 12. Students from 38 different school districts in eight counties attend NHS.
The main focus of the program at NHS is to assist students in reaching their potential by combining learning strategies and remediation with an individualized learning plan in a supportive environment. NHS encourages each student to explore his/her learning strengths and challenges to better understand themselves as a learner. NHS is a School’s Attuned trained school and provides remedial reading instruction using the Wilson Reading System.
NHS is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). NHS is an approved special education placement program by the New York State Education Department.
A Brief History of The Norman Howard School
 The Norman Howard School was established in 1980 by three concerned parents, Madeline Roeding, Shirley Cass and William Hoskin, who wanted to provide students with learning disabilities in Rochester and the surrounding area an alternative to public education. The school was named to honor Norman Howard, head of The Gow School in South Wales, New York, who had offered advice and consultation in the development of the school. In 1980, The Norman Howard School opened with six students enrolled. In 1990, NHS was approved as a Special Program by the New York State Education Department. Today, more than 125 students from eight counties thrive in an atmosphere of support and acceptance where an individual’s strengths are promoted and strategies for overcoming challenges are developed.
Community Involvement
For more than 25 years The Norman Howard School has been at the forefront of change for educating students with learning disabilities. School educators and administrators have had the opportunity to work closely with their counterparts in public, private and parochial school systems throughout Western New York, as well as thousands of parents affected by their children’s problems in and out of the classroom.
From these shared experiences, it become increasingly apparent over the years that a single community resource was needed to help students, families, counselors and educators deal with the broad academic and social problems that trouble the struggling learner – many who do not have a diagnosed learning disability.
In response to a board directive to provide outreach to the community, EnCompass: Resources for Learning was launched in 2004. The goal of EnCompass is to provide all students who struggle to learn with the resources to become a successful learner regardless of their socio-economic circumstances. EnCompass provides educational services to students who struggle to learn, and the families, schools and professionals that support them. These services are matched to each student’s unique learning style in order to prevent academic failure and enhance lifelong learning. For more information visit EncompassResources.org
In 2007, Education Enterprise of New York (E2NY) a 501 (c) organization was established to serve as an umbrella for our family of organizations that provide a continuum of educational services for students of all ages with different learning abilities. E2NY's mission is to promote effective programs and entrepreneurial leadership designed to improve educational systems and increase student success. “Education Enterprise of New York was established to increase support and resource capacity for struggling learners, said Richard Sands, chairman of Education Enterprise Foundation. This change will help us to better serve the students of our community who need academic support and skill development in language and literacy. By working together, E2NY is helping to effectively streamline services for students who need our support.
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