Maplebrook School and Ascent International at Maplebrook provide a highly individualized boarding and day school experience for students with learning differences who are ready to grow with structure, support, and purpose.
Located on a beautiful campus in Amenia, New York, Maplebrook serves middle and high school students who benefit from small classes, personalized instruction, executive functioning support, social-pragmatic coaching, and a warm residential community. Students are known deeply, challenged thoughtfully, and supported in developing the academic, social, emotional, and independent living skills they need to thrive.
For older students, Ascent International at Maplebrook offers a distinctive post-secondary pathway focused on life skills, vocational readiness, community engagement, and greater independence. Designed for young adults who learn differently, Ascent helps students build confidence, practice real-world skills, pursue meaningful goals, and prepare for a fuller, more self-directed future.
Across both programs, Maplebrook combines a nurturing environment with clear expectations, practical skill-building, and a belief in each student’s potential. Families choose Maplebrook and Ascent because they are looking for more than academic support. They are seeking a place where their child can be understood, encouraged, and guided toward lasting confidence, resilience, and independence.
For students with learning differences, ADHD, executive functioning challenges, language-based learning needs, social-pragmatic difficulties, or autism spectrum profiles, Maplebrook and Ascent offer a supportive path forward, one rooted in belonging, growth, and possibility.
What Makes Us Unique
1. A TRUE CONTINUUM OF GROWTH, FROM ADOLESCENCE TO YOUNG ADULTHOOD
Maplebrook and Ascent offer families something rare: a connected pathway from middle and high school through post-secondary transition. Students are able to grow within one trusted community, supported by a consistent philosophy, caring adults, and a structure that evolves with them as they mature. From Maplebrook’s academic and residential program to Ascent International’s focus on independent living, vocational readiness, and community engagement, students are guided toward greater confidence, resilience, and self-direction at every stage.
2. A FULL-DAY STRUCTURE, SUPPORTED BY THE RISE PROGRAM, THAT TEACHES INDEPENDENCE AND BUILDS RESILIENCE FROM WAKE-UP TO BEDTIME
What makes Maplebrook and Ascent especially powerful is that growth does not happen only in the classroom. It happens throughout the entire day. From morning wake-up routines to meals, classes, activities, study time, residential life, evening responsibilities, and bedtime, students are supported through a consistent, intentional structure. Through the RISE Program, daily challenges become teachable moments, with clear expectations, immediate feedback, reflection, accountability, and character coaching. Students practice executive functioning, social communication, self-care, responsibility, and independence in real time, helping them build the habits and confidence needed for life beyond school.