School District of Philadelphia
Office of Specialized Instruction Services
440 North Broad Street, 2nd floor
Philadelphia, PA 19130
(215) 400-4170
The School District Philadelphia is the 10th largest district in the country. There are 176 Elementary Schools, 29 Middle Schools, 62 High Schools, 17 Alternative Schools and 28 privately managed which total 284 schools. For the charter schools, there are 29 Elementary Schools, 6 Middle Schools, 16 High Schools and 4 Special Needs Schools.
The ethnicity breakdown is as follows:
| African American | 61.2% |
| Asian | 6.2% |
| Caucasian | 13.3% |
| Hispanic | 17.6% |
| Native American | 0.2% |
| Other | 1.6% |
Office of Specialized Instruction Services (OSIS) provides assistance with special education, behavioral health, school health and prevention/intervention.
The programs available are as follows:
- High Incidence Special Education Programs
- Low Incidence Special Education Programs
- Related Services
- Transition Services
- Homebound Instruction
- Healthy Kids Minds
- School Health Services
- Psychological Services
- Counseling Program/Services
- Comprehensive Student Assistance Process (CSAP)
- Homeless Children’s Initiative
- Alternative Special Education Settings & Approved Private Schools
- Surrogate Parent Program
- Transportation
Special Education
- Support to High/Low Incidence and Autism Programs
- Speech/Language Program
- Deaf/Hearing Program
- Vision Program
- Physical Support
- MDE/IEP process
Compliance/Quality Assurance
- EasySystem
- Compensatory Education
- Settlement Agreements
- Due Process Hearings
- Complaint Resolution
- Independent Evaluations
- Cyclical Monitoring
- Special Education Discipline
- Consent Decree Management
- Special Education Discipline Process
- Budget and Fiscal responsibility
- IU Plan
- Staffing allocations/personnel
School District of Philadelphia Special Education Policies and Procedures
Learn about Individualized Education Programs (IEP).
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