Communication between teachers and parents is a key factor in every child s educational development. Parental input and involvement is encouraged to help ensure quality programming for the students. A foster Grandparent program is also in operation. The New Horizon School, the first school built for exceptional children in Beaver County, was completed in 1974 by the Beaver County Joint School Board and the Beaver County Special School Authority Board. It is operated by the Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit and is part of the fifteen local school districts of Beaver County.
New Horizon is such a school.
The one-story public school provides programs of special education for students ages 5 to 21 years for the 15 districts in Beaver County. It is located in Brighton Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, in the Beaver County Health and Welfare Complex. The design of the school is such that all facilities are easily accessible to all children. Twenty-four classrooms are grouped into four major pods. Adjacent to each pod is an outside area and inside multi-purpose room.