The Odyssey Center serves gifted students in kindergarten through third grade from Palmetto Elementary and neighboring public and private schools. Students are challenged to become critical thinkers and creative problem solvers with an enriched and accelerated theme-based curriculum that encompasses the goals and objectives of each student's educational plan. Gifted students in grades four and five attend a similar program at Howard Drive Elementary.

Each student has an educational plan with independent and program goals that are reviewed regularly.

Students in grades four and five attend a complimentary program at Howard Drive Elementary.

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The Pre-K Reverse Mainstream classes at Palmetto are self-contained classes for children with varying disabilities who can benefit from being with non-disabled peers but need a small class setting. The ESE children in the program have varying exceptionalities and evaluations have determined that they will benefit from a small group setting. In this program certified ESE teachers and paraprofessionals teach children with disabilities and a smaller number of children without disabilities who have been screened as role models. Although the children in this program are functioning at various levels of development, each child’s needs are met in the daily program.

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The Bertha Abess Children’s Center
serves students whose emotional and/or behavioral problems interfere with social and academic learning, and also with
successful functioning in the home, school, and community.
The center is designed to meet the individualized needs of each student.

Classroom settings are highly structured, and two specially trained instructional staff members work with each group.
Techniques utilized include sequential behavioral interventions, positive behavior management, environmental manipulation, and numerous individualized teaching modalities. Clinical staff members provide students with individual and group therapy, including art therapy.

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