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SHELTON UPPER SCHOOL PROFILE
Size of Upper School 370 students
CEEB/SAT Code 441810
Executive Director / Head of School
Suzanne Stell, M.Ed., CALT
Associate Director of College and Career Advising
Mark Carter
Associate Heads of School
Mellany Barnett, M.Ed.
Amy Cushner, M.Ed., LDT, CALT, QI
Assistant Head of Upper School
Zac Ladd, M.A.
Assistant Head of Upper School
Terri Wilson
Head of Upper School
Jenny Cheatham, M.S., L.P.C.-S
Upper School Guidance Counselor
Claudia Kuhnast
Director of Testing
Cecilia Davis
Director of College and Career Advising
Debbie Knox, M.Ed.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE
• Shelton School provides a full academic curriculum to students
diagnosed with learning differences.
• Learning differences include Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Math Disorder,
Written Language Disorder, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder, and Speech and Oral Language Disorders.
• Shelton School emphasizes an individualized, structured,
multisensory approach to teaching and learning.
GRADING
• All grades on transcripts and report cards are numeric,
based on a 100-point scale. The passing mark is 70%.
• The cumulative grade point average does not include physical
education/athletics courses with the exception of Health
(for the classes of 2025, 2026, and 2027).
• An honors designation next to a course title on a transcript
indicates a course with more in-depth content, more rigor,
and more outside reading assignments than a regular course.
Posted grades are grades earned, but grades on the transcript
are increased by five points when the cumulative grade average
is computed.
• A modified designation next to a course title on a transcript
indicates that the curriculum in that course has been modified
for a specific student. The modifications may include less
content, less complexity, and/or fewer and shorter assignments
than the regular course. Posted grades are grades earned, but
grades on the transcript are reduced by five points when the
cumulative grade average is computed.
SHELTON.ORG
UPPER SCHOOL COURSE CATALOG
2024-2025
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