Shape Your Journey
The Help Group’s North Hills Prep (NHP) is committed to Relationship-Based Learning, specializing in meeting the unique requirements of students facing emotional and social challenges across grades K-12.
Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, our school provides a nurturing environment for a diverse population of special education students. With licensed eligible therapists and fully credentialed teachers, we prioritize holistic development and comprehensive support.
In 2017, we adopted the Neurosequential Model of Education, enhancing our approach to cater to the specific needs of our students.
What Makes NHP Different
Established in 1992 and holding accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) since 1994, North Hills Prep has been dedicated to effectively serving Special Education students for over two decades. Beyond adhering to district guidelines in our successful academic program, we are deeply committed to nurturing the social, emotional, and behavioral development of each student.
We provide a wide variety of academic and enrichment experiences, ensuring that every student has the opportunity to embrace and explore their unique interests and capabilities. Upon arrival, students at North Hills Prep often experience feelings of frustration, invisibility, misunderstanding, and self-doubt. Many have lost confidence in themselves and in the value of education.
Our goal is to help each student rediscover enthusiasm for school, rebuild self-confidence through genuine achievements, and reinstate the value of education in their lives. We invest time in understanding the individuality of each student, actively engaging them in the school experience. We strive to prepare every student for a smooth transition into the adult world, whether that involves pursuing higher education, community college, vocational or technical training, as well as obtaining gainful employment.
School Life
Approach
Life After NHP
INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM,
SHAPING LIFELONG LEARNERS
The Help Group’s North Hills Preparatory School (NHP) is dedicated to creating a nurturing environment for academically capable students in grades K-12, seeking to maximize their academic and social success through small class sizes and flexible schedules.
Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), NHP is committed to providing each student with the necessary environment to meet California’s high school graduation requirements and enable a path for success post-high school education. Emphasizing diversity, the institution welcomes students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, or religious belief as well as a wide array of personal achievement levels such as gifted and/or advanced skills, those requiring individualized programs, or those functioning within the public system at a reduced level of performance. In the upper school, students must fulfill minimum academic requirements for graduation and meet additional criteria in arts, computer science, health/life skills, physical education, and community service/service learning.
Support Services
In addition to our faculty, NHP has a clinical department, consisting of licensed therapists who play a crucial role in supporting the emotional and mental well-being of our students. Behavior interventionists also skillfully create a positive and supportive atmosphere, helping students overcome challenges and thrive. Together, our faculty forms a collaborative and compassionate community dedicated to the holistic development of each student.
Student Life
Our students partake in a myriad of academic and extracurricular pursuits, discovering their passions and honing their talents. From interactive classroom discussions to enriching clubs, sports, and creative activities, our students thrive in an environment that encourages exploration and personal growth. The supportive network of peers, teachers, and staff creates a sense of belonging, empowering students to express themselves authentically and embrace their individuality. With a commitment to holistic development, North Hills Prep offers a wide spectrum of opportunities that go beyond the classroom, preparing students not just academically but for a well-rounded, fulfilling future.
What People Are Saying
My son feels genuinely cared for and has expressed that his teachers at North Hills Prep help him with school work because he knows they care about him, that he wants to do his best and get good grades. In our experience the teachers at North Hills Prep practice positive classroom management, are perceptive to their students needs and have classrooms where my son has always felt safe and heard. We are forever grateful for North Hills Prep helping our son feel academically and socially confident in his school setting allowing him to thrive social emotionally and academically. It’s amazing the impact environment has and how quickly it’s effects can be felt and seen when children are made to genuinely feel safe, cared about, seen and heard as individuals being met where they are developmentallly.
– MS parent
Our son had been asked to not return to a number of schools, and we were out of choices for him. We found North Hills Prep and from the beginning they seemed to understand fully our son’s problems, behavioral issues and anger. Throughout the year our son made a miraculous recovery from not being able to sit in class and causing all kinds of behavioral problems, to being able to spend most of the day in class, and behaving much better both in school and home.
-NHP Parent 2022-2023
The Help Group’s North Hills Prep has aided my journey of middle school, to be able to confidently start high school. This upcoming school year, I’m leaving North Hills with the courage and determination to succeed in high school. At North Hills Prep, I truly found myself. I realized who I wanted to be, how I wanted to behave, and it’s sincerely because of the staff and peers that have accompanied me here. I’m so truly proud to say every staff member, currently or those who’ve moved on, have impacted me and so many students in such ways that’ll never be overturned. North Hills has become my home, my true support system, and I’m really sad to leave, but it’s thanks to North Hills Prep that I am leaving, that I’ve proved to change for the better, and I see my peers doing the same.
-Dylan Brannon
Former MS Student
Thank you for your interest in the North Hills Prep. We encourage you to attend our Open Houses. For dates and times and to RSVP, please contact the Admissions Office at 877.943.5747 or [email protected].
NORTH HILLS PREP
15339 Saticoy St.
Van Nuys, CA 91405
