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| Mark Twain School Principal - Roberta Leek
Mark Twain Special School serves approximately 87 significantly disabled, multiply handicapped, medically fragile/technology dependent and behaviorally challenged students between the ages of 3 and 22. It is one of 65 schools in the Garden Grove Unified School District and serves students from the cities of Garden Grove, Anaheim, Fountain Valley, Stanton, Westminster, Santa Ana, Buena Park, and Anaheim. Mark Twain is a specially designed school. There are 12 self-contained classrooms, one of which is housed at the Hy-Lond Home for the Developmentally Disabled. Program emphasis is on developing, improving, and maintaining critical and functional self help/daily living skills, as well as communication and vocation. Community Based Instruction (CBI) and integration at local schools are very important components of the program. The ethnic distribution of the student body is: Asian, 21.8%; Filipino, 2.3%; Hispanic, 40.3%; Black, 1.1%; White, 35.4%. Strong leadership is essential in a quality school, and is provided at Mark Twain by Roberta Leek, the principal, and other members of the school leadership team. Twelve teachers, 45 instructional aides, and four classified staff members, are assigned to Mark Twain Special School. In addition to teachers, administrators, and classified staff, specially trained support personnel are also available at Mark Twain School. They include:
Among the special programs offered to Mark Twain students
are the following:
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