High Road School of Wright City
High Road School of Wright City is a Private Special Education Day Facility that partners with school districts to meet the needs of exceptional students. We help students who have additional behavior needs, including autism, emotional disturbance, ADHD, and other diagnoses. We aim to build confidence and competence through personalized academic and behavioral interventions, so that student can learn to enjoy school again, and return to their home school environment. We individualize our approach to help students be successful both in and out of learning environments. Our students learn how to learn and learn how to live.
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- (P) 636.277.0950
- 275 West Service Road North, Suite P
Wright City, Missouri, 63390
Meet The Team
Administration
Mary Claire Engel – Program Director
Mary Claire Engel graduated from Lindenwood University in 2008 and gained experience at a private autism school in St. Louis. She went on to work in the psychiatric field as well as foster care and disability-related case management before obtaining her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from McKendree University in 2016. Mary Claire is a certified English Language Arts and K-12 Special Education teacher. Mary Claire joined High Road School of Wright City in 2018.
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Logan Schuette – Associate Director
Logan graduated from Lindenwood University with degrees in Psychology and Cellular/Molecular Biology in 2018. He joined High Road School in 2019 and has supported in all facets of High Road’s programming, with a promotion to associate director in 2022. Logan is a certified teacher.
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Kathryn Zoellner – Social Worker
Kathryn graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2008 with a master’s degree in Social Welfare. Kathryn is a Licensed Master Social Worker in the state of Missouri. Before joining High Road School of Wright City in 2019, Kathryn worked as a play therapist, residential youth care worker, and has nine years of experience as a treatment foster care specialist.
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Samantha Callahan – School Counselor
Samantha joined High Road School of Wright City in 2022 after completing her master’s degree in School and Professional Counseling from Lindenwood University. Samantha supports the therapeutic and transitional needs of our students.
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Related Service Providers
Audrey Kuda – Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant
Beth Marshal – Occupational Therapist
Rachel Meyer – Speech-Language Pathologist
Rachel graduated with her master’s in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2009 and served in the Skilled Nursing field for the first two years of her career before pursuing her desire to help children and young people improve their speech, language, and social skills. She specializes in working with children who have Autism, childhood apraxia of speech and language delays. Rachel has extensive experience working with BCBAs and collaboratively implementing behavior strategies while working on speech, language, and social skills. Rachel has been supporting the students at High Road School since 2017.
Teaching Staff
Hannah Adam – Certified Special Education Teacher
Hannah joined High Road School of Wright City in 2022 after graduating from Lindenwood University with a degree in Early Childhood Special Education. Hannah is also K-12 Special Education certified and has experience working in Applied Behavior Analysis programs with children with autism.
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Meaghan Bell – Certified Teacher
Meaghan has a degree in Child Studies from Post University and came to High Road in 2020 with 14 years of experience working with children in educational settings. Meaghan is a certified Elementary Education and K-12 Special Education teacher.
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Brittany Byrd – Certified Substitute Teacher
Brittany came to High Road School with experience working with individuals with special needs in a variety of settings. Brittany obtained her substitute certificate and supports the high school students in our BEST program.
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Emily Forrest – Certified Special Education Teacher
Emily began working at High Road School in 2017 and brought with her professional experience working with at-risk children in an educational setting as well as within the mental health field. Emily obtained her degree from Missouri Baptist University and received her teacher certification through the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence program in 2021. Emily is special education certified in K-12 Mild/Moderate/Cross Categorical and is currently enrolled in a Master’s in Applied Behavior Analysis program.
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Kristi Hoffman – Certified Substitute Teacher
Kristi joined High Road in 2019 and currently works as a substitute teacher within our Academic program. Kristi is pursuing a degree in special education through Western Governors University.
Jenna McCrary – Certified Substitute Teacher
Jenna joined High Road School in 2021 and has worked in multiple classrooms across both the Academic and BEST programs. Jenna is currently a long-term substitute in the early high school classroom.
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Dallas Montlerth – Certified Teacher
Dallas is a certified teacher who joined High Road School of Wright City in 2022. Dallas came to us with experience working with a variety of grades and special needs. Dallas currently teaches in our upper high school classroom.
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Jessica Rothenberger – Certified Special Education Teacher
Jessica joined High Road School in 2021 after obtaining her degree in psychology from Southeast Missouri State University. Jessica joined us with experience working in an early childhood special education setting. Jessica is a certified elementary education teacher and also holds certification in K-12 special education.
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Our Students
Students are referred by their school district to attend High Road School and are generally in grades K–12 (aged 5 to 21). They face disabilities in a variety of areas, including Autism, Emotional Disturbance, Other Health Impairments, Speech and Language Disorder, Learning Disabilities, and more.
Our Staff
We are proud to employ certified special education teachers, Licensed Professional Counseling, Speech and Language Pathology, and Occupational Therapy.
Utilizing four specific instructional rotations, students are assessed academically, gain self-regulation skills, learn with district-aligned academic curriculums, and utilize integrated technology.
Each student enrolled in the model has individualized behavior programming which is driven by Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA). We aim to identify the behaviors that continue to disrupt our student’s ability to access their environment and learning. We then use the data collected from the FBA and classroom data to device strategies that get to the root function of the students disrupted behaviors.
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High Road School of Wright City
2022-2023 Overall Winner