Special Schools Children's Center for the Physically Handicapped The Children's Center is a cooperative effort of the school system and the United Ways of Forsyth, Davie and Yadkin Counties. Children's Center students are those who would have difficultly functioning in a less restrictive environment. The goal of the Center is to prepare each child educationally and therapeutically to move to a less restrictive setting. Lowrance Middle School Lowrance serves about 100 special education children ages 5 to 21 who are severely and profoundly handicapped, trainable mentally handicapped, autistic, or behaviorally and emotionally handicapped. Numerous auxiliary services augment the standard curriculum.
Older students have work opportunities at participating agency sites during the school day.
Lowrance is connected to the regular Hanes Middle School program, providing numerous opportunities for mainstream activities, social interaction and experiences shared by students in both programs. The Learning and Education Acceleration Program at Kennedy Middle School serves about 330 students in fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade who have been previously retained or are over-age for their grade. Students are selected by application in the spring. Students accepted into the fifth-grade program will be expected to attend LEAP for two years. The first year is devoted to getting the students on grade level and successfully completing the fifth-grade requirements.