Hi-star Center For Children

Hi-Star Center for Children is a private special education day school in Phoenix, AZ, specifically designed to serve students with severe language, communication, learning, and behavioral needs. The school provides a highly structured environment where academic instruction is integrated with essential language acquisition skills, ensuring that communication development is a continuous part of the student's daily routine.

The program serves students from Kindergarten through 8th grade, with an elementary division featuring five developmental, language-based classrooms for children ages 5 to 13. Classroom groupings are carefully determined by each student's unique academic, language, behavioral, and social requirements. Instruction is delivered using direct instruction techniques across core subjects like reading, writing, and math, as well as science, social studies, art, music, recreational therapy (RT), and cooking activities.

Hi-Star utilizes a structured behavior management program to support students' social and emotional growth alongside their academic progress. As a nonsectarian institution, the school offers a specialized, small-scale setting focused on meeting the individual developmental milestones of every child.