Burlington_County_Special_Services_School_District
Burlington County Special Services School District
School district in New Jersey, U.S.
The Burlington County Special Services School District is a special education public school district headquartered in Westampton, in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, whose schools offer educational and therapeutic services for students of elementary and high school age from across the county who have emotional of physical disabilities that cannot be addressed by their sending districts.
The Burlington County Special Services School District was established in 1972 by the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders. At first the district served 30 disabled students, but grew within five years to accommodate 500 students from 40 sending school districts in the county. A newly constructed campus for the school was built in Westampton, starting use in January 1983. In 1990, the district opened a high school for at-risk students in Lumberton Township and a K-8 campus was opened the following year in Willingboro Township to help teach students how to overcome their disabilities.[3]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprising three schools, had an enrollment of 498 students and 109.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 4.6:1.[1]