Reece School

The Reece School frames its teaching around special education that strives for academic excellence while recognizing learning differences, aiming to create an environment where students feel and are successful and build essential skills and a lifelong love of learning. Instruction follows New York State and Common Core-aligned curricula, while giving teachers flexibility in how they implement standards and materials, and it emphasizes social-emotional learning supports alongside academic growth and readiness for later schooling and life.

The Reece School presents itself as an approved non-public special education school, and notes that students enter with an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) created by the Department of Education, indicating enrollment is tied to a DOE/CSE placement process rather than a typical private-school admissions application. (reeceschool.org) The website does not provide an online application form or step-by-step admissions checklist; instead, families are directed implicitly to contact the school to discuss placement and fit (phone: 212-289-4872), and the office staff list includes an Admissions contact (Jeanine Soulet). (reeceschool.org) No admissions deadlines or “key dates” for applying are published on the site (the available calendars appear to be school-year event calendars, not an admissions schedule). (reeceschool.org) The website does not describe a waitlist policy or process, and it does not publish any priority categories for admission/placement (e.g., sibling preference, geographic priority, etc.).