Kennedy Day School

Kennedy Day School at Franciscan Children’s combines 50 years of experience and proven expertise with a brand new facility that reflects our reputation for excellence and innovation. Every day, we provide fully collaborative special education, therapeutic, and health services to more than 60 students, ages 3 to 22, with significant, complex needs from more than 30 cities and towns across Massachusetts. Situated on a welcoming landscape of playgrounds, Kennedy Day School is located on a campus that seamlessly blends an enriching learning environment with the vast resources of Franciscan Children’s, a renowned pediatric rehabilitation hospital. Often described as wonderfully unique, the school consists of 14 large, accessible classrooms interwoven with highly specialized services. Each student’s interdisciplinary team of service providers specifically address areas such as communication, mobility and motor control, vision, hearing, feeding, cognition, social development, and fragile health. Individualized Education Program (IEP) plans are developed through cooperative planning with each student’s family and school district, in order to address the unique needs of the learner, from preschool to high school, both individually and in small, supportive class groupings.