Kotara School

Service Description

Kotara School provides intensive behavioural, emotional and educational support for students who have been confirmed by the NSW Department of Education and Communities as having mental health problems/disorders or special consideration sign off for emotional disturbance placement or who have exhausted all other regional behaviour support provisions, and/or for whom a risk assessment indicates a special placement is required. We provide a range of specialist programs for students in Years 3-6 with the aim of the students transitioning back to their mainstream school on a full-time basis. Generally, students can be placed in the school for a maximum of four school terms. The school provides opportunity for each student to achieve and excel. There is a large Aboriginal community within the school, and Aboriginal Education features across the school plan. They work with students so that they may return to mainstream school.