South Portland School Department - Child Find Notice

The South Portland School Department seeks to ensure that all students within its jurisdiction are identified, located and evaluated who are school-age (5 through the school year in which they turn 20) and who are in need of special education and supportive services. Those students may include state wards, state agency clients, students who have been suspended or expelled, students attending private schools within the City of South Portland, students in home-schooling programs, institutional residents, highly mobile students with disabilities, and students who are suspected of being disabled and in need of special education services even though they are advancing from grade to grade. Identification of students with disabilities and programming for such students occurs after an appropriate evaluation and a determination of eligibility is conducted by an IEP team meeting.

Parents, relatives, physicians, private school educators, and other persons who are aware of a child who may require special education services are asked to contact Kathleen Cox, Director of Instructional Support, South Portland School Department, 130 Wescott Road, South Portland, ME 04106, telephone 871-0555.