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104,777 schools in the 50 states and DC. Every public school must serve students with disabilities, so all 98,271 public schools are here (NCES 2024-25), with public special education schools and charters marked. Also private special education schools (NCES 2023-24), 2,079 schools and agencies that a state education agency approves for special education placement, member lists from NAPSEC, the IDA LD Independent School Network and the deaf and blind school councils, and 3,090 private schools that accept a state disability scholarship in Florida, Oklahoma, Utah and Wisconsin. Schools that specialize show first.

• Public placement is free. If the IEPWhat does IEP mean?? team places your child in a special school, public or private, the district pays. State approved lists show where your district can place a student.
• Choosing a private school yourself is different. Your child may lose the individual right to a free appropriate public education. Read Private school and home school and Paying for it.
• Scholarship schools are mostly regular private schools. Accepting a scholarship does not mean a school offers special education. Ask what support your child would get, in writing.
• Visit, and ask for data: class size, staff training, how progress is measured, and how students move back to their home school.
• Trust tiers: schools from NCES are Public record. Schools from state and member lists are Registry Listings: call first. Their map spot is the middle of their ZIP code.