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Scholarships and Endowment Opportunities

Acceptance of the Family Empowerment Scholarships, https://www.fldoe.org/schools/school-choice/k-12-scholarship-programs/fes/

Step Up For Students Scholarships, https://www.stepupforstudents.org/

Donations and Endowments are welcomed throughout the year. For our Boarding School, we are seeking endowments from donors for our campus, housing, and scholarship funds. Donors will be acknowledged in several ways such as their family name and/or crest used for our housing, and scholarship funds named after the family or a designated name.

Legacy High School meets all Florida Statutes section 1002.421(2). All Legacy High School and Puzzle Box Academy (PBA) teachers possess a bachelor’s degree, 3 years of teaching experience or special skills, knowledge, or expertise that qualifies the individual to provide instruction in specific subjects.

Compliance Statement  

Legacy High School (LHS) shall comply fully with the nondiscrimination provisions of all federal and state laws by assuring that no person shall be denied admission to LHS or be denied participation in, be denied the benefits of or be discriminated against in any curriculum, co-curricular, pupil services, recreational or other program or activity because of the person’s gender, race, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation or physical, mental, emotional or learning disability.

Discrimination Policy  

LHS is firmly committed to an educational environment free from discrimination and harassment and maintains Pupil Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment Policies. Questions concerning the interpretation or application of policies shall be referred to the principal or assistant principal, Legacy High School, 125 E NASA Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32907, 321-345-4232.

Parental Validation of Physical/Mental Impairment 

Parents are required to produce validation of a child’s physical or mental impairment when the impairment is beyond the parameters of assessments/evaluations that can legally be performed by public school personnel (i.e., medical evaluation(s), psychological evaluations, etc.)  34C.F.R. §104.35. A medical diagnosis of an illness does not automatically mean a student can receive services under Section 504, just as an impairment is not a disability. The illness and/or impairment must substantially limit one or more life activities, as determined by a Section 504 team, to be considered a disability under Section 504.

Required Private School I.D.E.A. Statement

A parentally-placed private school student with a disability does not have an individual right to receive some or all of the special education and related services that some or all of the special education and associated services would receive if enrolled in a public school under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (I.D.E.A.).

P.B.A. can accommodate the unique needs of most children and will do so whenever feasible. In those situations, we will work with the parent(s)/guardian(s) to develop a partnership with those parent(s)/guardian(s), teachers, and support professionals to determine the best way to help the child be successful in our setting. We work with our clinical patterns to offer eligible students applied behavioral analysis (A.B.A.) services. We also allow third-party therapists, including but not limited to speech, occupational, A.B.A., and physical therapists arranged by the parent(s)/guardian(s) and at their or their insurance’s expense to provide service at P.B.A.’s discretion so long as they can pass background checks for the safety of our students. In addition, support professionals are welcome to conduct periodic observations of children during the school day. Sessions and observations need to be scheduled with the school director and teachers.

Parents must sign a permission form for support professionals to communicate with the school staff. Our administrators will keep that permission form in the student’s file for enrollment, and it may be updated at the parent(s)/guardian(s) request.

Please ask our school director for additional questions regarding students with differing needs.

A parentally-placed private school student with a disability does not have an individual right to receive some or all of the special education and related services that some or all of the special education and associated services would receive if enrolled in a public school under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (I.D.E.A.).

LHS can accommodate the unique needs of most children and will do so whenever feasible. In those situations, we will work with the parent(s)/guardian(s) to develop a partnership with those parent(s)/guardian(s), teachers, and support professionals to determine the best way to help the child be successful in our setting. We work with our clinical patterns to offer eligible students applied behavioral analysis (A.B.A.) services. We also allow third-party therapists, including but not limited to speech, occupational, A.B.A., and physical therapists arranged by the parent(s)/guardian(s) and at their or their insurance’s expense to provide service at P.B.A.’s discretion so long as they can pass background checks for the safety of our students. In addition, support professionals are welcome to conduct periodic observations of children during the school day. Sessions and observations need to be scheduled with the school director and teachers.

Parents must sign a permission form for support professionals to communicate with the school staff. Our administrators will keep that permission form in the student’s file for enrollment, and it may be updated at the parent(s)/guardian(s) request.

Please ask our school director for additional questions regarding students with differing needs.