Port View Preparatory
This project allows Port View Preparatory to continue providing special needs education services to children and young adults (kindergarten through 22 years of age) and to serve 204 additional students annually. Port View Preparatory will be able to expand its clinical and assessment services beyond the school’s enrollment and include non-student populations for specific behavioral health services.
Loan Purpose: Acquisition
Project: Education
The California State Department of Education operates Port View Preparatory as a school for special education students.
Borrower: Port View Preparatory provides education and psychological assessments to students. The program facilitates instructional field trips to museums, restaurants, movies, and parks. The school also provides assistive technology, speech, and language instruction, occupational therapy, nursing, physical therapy, and student pick-up and drop-off utilizing unmarked transportation.
Loan Details: Partners worked with Clearinghouse CDFI to deliver a $1,000,000 loan as part of a $19 million finance package to support the acquisition of the Port View Preparatory school building.