Mark Mortarelli
Alternative Education Department Head
Phone: 508-647-6606
Email Mark Mortarelli

The Natick Alternative Education Center provides for the educational and emotional needs of those students who benefit from a supportive, structured alternative educational environment in order to make effective progress towards the ultimate goal of earning a high school diploma.

The educational and emotional needs of each student is the impetus for determining an individualized program for each student.

General Program Goals

• To provide its students educational and support services as they progress towards graduation.

• To assist students in making school a positive and productive experience, enabling them to transfer knowledge, behaviors and attitudes to their lives beyond high school.

• To provide a supportive, yet structured environment where the educational and emotional climate is one of growth.

• To educate students about the knowledge, behaviors and attitudes required for success in the world of work.

Possible Student Profile

• Ineffective school progress due to learning, behavioral, emotional or psychiatric disability.

• Academic failure due to behavioral issues, attendance problems and an inability or unwillingness to engage in class work.

• Possible history of psychiatric hospitalizations, residential treatment, foster care and/or substance abuse treatment.