ADMISSIONS
Why Enroll at Winston?
Life-Changing Reasons to Consider Winston:
- You think your child’s school focuses more on what they can’t do, rather than what they can
- You’re fighting with your child at home over getting homework done
- Problems at school are becoming problems at home
- The environment in your school allows for teasing and bullying
- Your child is falling behind
- Your school or your child’s teacher seems to be losing hope
- High school graduation seems a fading dream
Winston changed my son’s life and future. This is the fourth school he has attended and none of the others could meet his unique challenges and needs.
- Corrine
Winston changed my son’s life and future. This is the fourth school he has attended and none of the others could meet his unique challenges and needs.
- Corrine
How is The Winston School different?
- Winston offers new hope to students and families who have experienced disappointment, frustration and failure in previous school settings.
- Winston is a caring, calming community with professional, on-campus support services to address a wide range of academic, social and emotional needs.
- Winston is a secure place where students can enjoy being at school, making friends, being creative, and having the weight of failure lifted off their shoulders.
- Winston is a flexible school that tries to make the classroom and curriculum fit the student, not fit the student to the classroom.
- Winston expects students to progress and take on increasingly greater challenges as their resilience, self-confidence and vision for their future success grow.
- At 8:1, Winston offers the lowest teacher to student ratio at any San Diego private school.
- Winston offers students optional counseling services on-site.
- Winston students may take an extra year to finish high school (fifth year option).
- All of Winston’s teachers are credentialed in special education.
- Winston’s highly trained teachers, staff and counselors are able to get students back into the classroom and on a path to a brighter future.
- Our unique School Wide Learning Expectations program promotes, recognizes and rewards academic and personal growth in our students.
Our students are inspired by the scenery, relaxed by the ocean breezes and challenged by our staff to aspire to great things. Winston students often find mentors among our staff, volunteers, and the diverse collection of artists and entrepreneurs based in Del Mar.