Center programs are located in neighborhood schools across the district which allows for inclusion opportunities with typical peers. Center based programs are specialized classrooms within a regular school building and are available throughout the district as part of Jeffco’s continuum of placement options for students in special education. These programs provide an intensive level of support, additional resources, and a focus on individualized needs as they pertain to different groups of students.
Programs also shift and flex as needed to respond to individual student needs.
Only students whose IEP identifies placement within a center program can be supported in a center program. Students cannot be enrolled into a program by a family or transferred into a program by an administrator.
Most students can be supported in their neighborhood school and do not need center programming. A Director or Assistant Director of Sped must be included in decisions to change a student’s placement.