Recognizing early in her teaching career that the public schools were unable to provide adequate and necessary educational services to children with exceptional needs, Ruth Newman founded the Gramon School in 1939 in her own home in South Orange, New Jersey.
Beginning with four pupils, the school quickly developed a reputation for educational excellence and its enrollment began to increase dramatically. Within a very few years the school had grown so large that it had to be relocated to the South Orange Community Center.
Gramon's reputation and enrollment continued to grow over the years, and in 1994, after three additional moves, the school came to its new quarters, a modern, air-conditioned, one-story facility in Fairfield.
In September 1986, the school was divided into separate elementary and secondary programs. Glenview Academy is the elementary program that today shares the Fairfield facility with Gramon.
