Opening New Doors To Healing: The Charlton School Celebrates Completion OfMajor Construction Project With Ribbon Cutting On June 12

For the past year, The Charlton School has been undergoing extensive renovations, designed to positively impact the lives of the young women it serves, who reside on its 275-acre campus in Saratoga County. 

As the project comes to completion, the students who are learning and growing within this unique therapeutic learning community will have some much-needed enhancements to help foster their space for growth. 

On Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 10 a.m., key stakeholders involved in The Charlton School’s largest renovation since 1955, will gather to celebrate the culmination of this project that will change the way the students live and learn on campus. 

The Charlton School supports young women in grades 8-12, who are facing significant mental health challenges that are negatively impacting their daily lives. They provide a highly structured approach to therapeutic services and campus life, while also offering students a hands-on, experiential New York State High School Curriculum. Students are provided with individual and family therapy, as well as Art, Equine and Recreational Therapy.

One year ago, the groundbreaking was held to kick-off construction on four new student dorms, a new Campus Facilities building and a student Maker Space, in addition to the demolition of some old structures, and the installation of new sidewalks and walkways. The essential upgrades better reflect the high quality of therapeutic services and education being provided at The Charlton School. 

Students who reside on campus will now have brand new accommodations, with eight students per dorm, which will better support their healing journey and provide a modern, safe, and inviting living space for their “home away from home”. Each student will have a single room, and share a bathroom with only one other student. The old dorms were built in 1955 and were no longer conducive to supporting the mission and forward progress being made at The Charlton School.    

The Charlton School operates year-round and serves a total of 42 students from across NY, CT and VT with 28 living on campus and 14 day students being transported daily from local school districts. Students are referred to this highly unique therapeutic learning community by their home school districts when the Committee on Special Education determines a higher level of care and intervention is necessary. 

As the construction project winds down, officials reflect on the success and say it was made possible by collaboration with partners, donors, students and staff, who have worked together to ensure the timely and safe completion since day one. Remaining students will be moving into the new dorms after graduation on June 26, 2025.

Executive Director, Alex Capo, said, “This whole project has been truly collaborative from the beginning. The genuine concern for our students, families, staff and our overall therapeutic learning community was felt on a daily basis by all of those on-site everyday. The new buildings and outdoor campus spaces are much more conducive to the healing and growth that is necessary for our continued success.”