ABOUT US

Cape May County Special Services School District educates and empowers students with special needs and significant disabilities to reach their highest potential.  

We offer a continuum of services, which enables us to address students’ ever-changing needs right within our school and also serve students of varying abilities and ages.

Our pre-vocational programs, such as our on-campus Back Porch Cafe and Woodshop, as well as our community-based instruction in partnership with area businesses, help students gain important career and life skills in preparation for becoming contributing members of society. 

Our students have access to an entire campus, as opposed to one classroom within a school. Students are free to be themselves as they accept and work through challenges that lead to social, emotional, physical and intellectual growth. 

Unmatched resources, specialized facilities and highly qualified staff - who have a calling to work with special needs students - help students reach new developmental and educational milestones. 

Staff work together, finding solutions to meet students’ individual needs; colleagues benefit from being part of a large team, bouncing ideas off of one another to ensure they are evolving and following the absolute best practices.  

We are customer service-oriented; if we don’t have a program to meet a student’s specific needs, we will develop it and put all of our expertise behind it to ensure the student and his/her family thrives and our partner public school districts have a reliable partner in educating their students. We do the same for our itinerant services, and have several new services beginning in the 2019-20 academic year, including psychiatric nurse case management through Marcroft.

We are accountable, following all of the rules and regulations implemented by the state, documenting student progress through regular assessments and reporting back to public school districts. 

We are the best value because we are the best at what we do for the most reasonable costs to districts – and taxpayers.  

We serve students ages Three through Adulthood.

We are a receiving public school district.

We were founded in 1974.

We utilize a leveled curriculum that is aligned to the NJ Student Learning Standards.

We have school nurses in each of our schools.

Our teachers are highly qualified.

We utilize Orton Gillingham and Fountas and Pinnell as our reading  programs.

We offer an Extended School Year Program.

We have CST staff in all of our schools.

We offer technology-infused learning.

We provide Speech, OT and PT.

We have a full behavioral department with BCBAs and RBTs.

We offer Psychiatric Nurse Case Management for our students through Marcroft.

We offer community-based learning.

We provide Adaptive Physical Education.

We have a vibrant art and music program.

We offer Transition Linkages to DDD and DVRS.

We offer real work experience before graduation.

We offer in house and community based vocational placements.

We host dances and other social events.

We have a beautiful pool and offer swimming instruction to students.

We have a State of the Art therapy pool.

We have an award winning Outdoor Experiential Education (OXE) Program.

We have a dynamic Social Skills/Character Education Program.