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+1 650-720-4248
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| 2040 Pioneer Ct, San Mateo, CA, 94403 | |
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0.5 miHayward Park
1 miHillsdale Caltrain Station
1.6 miSan Mateo
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Specialties
Challenging yet supportive, individualized curriculum, realistic workload, safe, warm environment.
What makes us unique?
Integrating unique resources and approaches creates an optimal learning experience for the individual styles of students with learning differences.
Among the ways that Compass High School is designed to meet these needs are:
Our essential skills curriculum
Our use of innovative technology
Our experiential, hands-on teaching method
History
Established in 2012.
Compass High School was founded in March of 2012 by a group of parents and educators concerned about the need for a high school in the Peninsula that is specifically designed for students with learning differences. Our vision is to simultaneously provide integrated services and support and a comprehensive college preparatory program.
We opened our doors in August of 2013 with a class of ninth and tenth graders and will expand to serve students in grades 9 through 12. We are spending this year in classrooms and offices leased from the Associated Language and Learning Services (ALLS) in Redwood Shores. While there, we are augmenting our program by providing many community-based activities for our students.
On February 21st, 2014 we signed a lease for a long-term location at 2040 Pioneer Court in San Mateo. Compass High will be relocating to our new building in June 2014.
Meet the Manager
Rachel W.
Manager
Rachel Wylde is the founding director of Compass High School. She started her career in education as an educational therapist then worked as a high school special education teacher. She taught for five years in a therapeutic school before becoming a school administrator. She has been the director of three schools for students with learning differences. In 2006, Rachel founded Bayhill High School, which has become one of the premier schools for students with learning differences in Northern California.
Rachel has been active in statewide public policy, sitting on the board of the California Association of Special Education Schools (CAPSES) for 12 years, and in school governance, serving as board chair of a North Oakland Community Charter School (NOCCS).
