Academics
Lexington provides a comprehensive education for children and parents in its Ready-to-Learn Program, ages 0-3, preschool, elementary, middle and high school programs, a foreign language transitional program, and deaf multiply disabled program known as the Special Education Unit. These programs are unified by a common teaching-learning framework known as Mediated Learning, developed by internationally renowned psychologist Dr. Reuven Feuerstein. Using this model teachers help students learn how to learn, make meaningful connections across content areas, and become active participants in their own learning.
The curriculum meets standards set by the New York State Education Department. The high school is fully-accredited and like public high schools confers New York State Regents and Individual Education Plan (IEP) diplomas. We begin career education in the elementary grades with vocational concepts integrated into the math and social studies curricula, and continue through middle and high school when students explore personal career interests through formal classes, internships, and community service experiences. Upon graduation, our students attend Gallaudet University and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, various universities and other two year colleges, or go directly into the work force or into further training programs.
Lexington is the only school in the United States designated as an Authorized Training Center in the use of the Mediated Learning model providing training for professionals in Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment (IE) Program. IE is a cognitive curriculum with the aim of enhancing the student's ability to learn effectively in all learning situations.