Under federal law, all public school systems must serve students
with physical and learning disabilities from ages 3 through 21. For evaluation
and enrollment, contact Huntsville City Schools Special Education Office at
428-6872, Madison City Board of Education at 772-5600, or Madison County School
at 852-7033.
To enroll a family member in the Exceptional Family Member
Program (EFMP), contact the EFMP Manager, Army Community Service at
876-5397.
Child Find is a statewide program sponsored by the state
Department of Education's Division of Rehabilitation Services, Early
Intervention and the Division of Special Education Services. Child
Find locates, identifies, and evaluates individuals from birth to age 21 who
have disabilities or who are suspected of having disabilities. Call
the school district, EFMP Program Manager or 1-800-543-3098 for more
information.
Center for Developmental Learning
2901
Fairbanks
428-7120
Established in 1988 to give special education
student s one-on-one attention and instruction, enabling them to learn in a
regular classroom environment. Student enrollment of about
80.
Exceptional Family Member Program Coordinator
ACS, Bldg 3338,
Redeye Road
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898
876-2859/5397
The
EFMP gives soldiers a means of identifying family members with physical,
emotional, or intellectual handicaps, so that assignment authorities may give
special consideration to reassigning service members to locations where their
family members can receive appropriate treatments or programs.
MAGNET
SCHOOLS
Under Alabama state law, academically gifted students are given
special attention from kindergarten through 12th grade. For more
information about Huntsville magnet schools, call 532-4849.
Academically
gifted students can attend special classes during the school day while in
elementary school. In upper grades, gifted students are offered
advanced classes or opportunities to take courses at local colleges and
universities.
NOTE: Families living on the arsenal may have
limited eligibility to attend magnet schools. For more details,
contact Army Community Service at 876-5397.
Huntsville City School's
15-year-old magnet school programs allow students to immerse themselves in
special areas of interest from foreign languages to performing arts to
science.
Children can enter magnet academies as early as
kindergarten. The city school system provides busing from the child's
home school.
Established in federal court in the 1980s as a means of
desegregating portions of north Huntsville, the magnet programs are filled
according to racial and regional quotas. The magnets' over-all racial
composition is intended to reflect the system as a whole.
For the
academies, only white students attending majority white schools and
African-American students living in the school's home zone are
eligible. Students are accepted following interviews with parents and
the applicant.
For the two high school programs, all students are
eligible. However, only white students at majority white schools or
African-American students at majority black schools are eligible to attend
full-time. Students in the racial minority at their home schools are
eligible to attend high school magnet programs part-time.