About The Watson Institute Friendship Academy
The Watson Institute is a Pittsburgh-area nonprofit (founded 1917) that operates special education schools and outpatient behavioral health services for children with disabilities in Western Pennsylvania. Friendship Academy is its approved private school program at 255 S. Negley Avenue in Pittsburgh, serving students ages 5-21 with serious emotional and behavioral challenges through a maximum 1:4 staff-to-student ratio, integrated mental health services, and school-based partial hospitalization and outpatient behavioral health programming.
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Pittsburgh, PA Headquarters
255 S. Negley Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Pittsburgh, PA Primary
15206
Sewickley, PA
15143
Sharpsburg, PA
Bridgeville, PA
Wexford, PA
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TypicalDirectory median 6.0Higher than 12% of ABA companies on CertifyndABA
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