Student Support

Supporting Students to Do Their Best

Student Support Services provide school-wide, classroom, small group, and individual assistance to students—meeting them where they are and journeying with them to reach their potential.

Our student population represents a wide range of unique talents, backgrounds, families, and learning styles. Epiphany School is committed to ensuring that every student is challenged and supported to learn at the best of their ability. We assist where needed through counseling, professional resources, and Learning Skills Specialists.

We offer:

Individual and small-group learning skills assistance
Focused family, sibling, and student counseling
Access to professional resources for speech, language, and hearing screenings
A comprehensive social-emotional learning framework
Outplacement support for fifth graders applying to middle school

An Inside Look at Support Services

Learning Skills

Ensuring every student gets the assistance they need to excel

We help students understand how they learn best, so they can become confident self-advocates. We meet students where they are and journey with them to help them reach their potential both academically and personally.

Our full-time learning skills specialists leverage your child’s strengths and help bolster his or her emerging skills through individual support and classroom groupings. Specific areas of support include phonics, reading decoding, fluency, comprehension, math concepts and computations, writing skills, and handwriting.

School Counselor

Nurturing children to become respectful and confident advocates for themselves and others

Elementary school years are when children acquire positive attitudes toward school, self, peers, social groups, and family. Our dedicated School Counselor works in collaboration with faculty and staff to create an educational environment where students feel a sense of safety, belonging, and significance.

Our School Counselor provides monthly lessons to each classroom on subject matter pertaining to the five core competencies of social-emotional learning: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. In addition to classroom work, the School Counselor may work with students in small groups or one-on-one to help further develop students' skills in these core areas. She is also available to provide referrals to outside mental and behavioral health professionals as well as various community resources.

Social-Emotional Learning at Epiphany School

School Counseling Resources

Professional Resources

Partnering with our local community to support unique student needs

Epiphany School partners with speech and language pathologists to provide speech, language, and hearing screenings to all pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students, as well as to all students new to the school.

When a need is identified, faculty collaborate with our learning skills specialists to refer families to qualified, local educational psychologists, speech and language therapists, optometrists, and occupational therapists for screenings, educational assessments, and consultations. This strategic team approach ensures that all students are provided a high level of support.

Note: Individual costs associated with referrals are each family’s responsibility.

Middle School Placement Assistance

Helping students and their families navigate the middle school application process

In addition to the academic and social emotional curriculum that prepares our students well for life beyond Epiphany School, we have developed a Middle School Placement Program designed to support our families as they navigate the application process, making it as smooth a journey as possible.

Epiphany School is the only Seattle-area independent elementary school with a dedicated middle school placement coordinator. Our middle school placement offerings include test prep classes, personalized guidance on best-fit schools for each student, application essay advice, and unlimited family support throughout the middle school application process. In addition, Epiphany School hosts multiple informational workshops, parent coffees, a panel discussion with middle school directors, and on-site ISEE and SSAT testing.

Learn more about our Middle School Placement Coordinator and Outplacement Program.