Florida Intercultural Academy
1704 Buchanan Street
Hollywood, FL 33020
Phone: 954-924-8006
Fax: 954-924-8044
Exceptional Student Education (ESE) programs provide students with disabilities and gifted students the opportunity to receive a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment.
Students aged 3-21 who have a disability and gifted students in grades K-12 are eligible for ESE services. Children with disabilities under the age of 22 may receive Exceptional Student Education services if they have not graduated with a standard high school diploma. Qualifying disabilities, eligibility standards, referral information, and evaluation requirements are defined in State Board of Education Administrative Rules available at the on-line links shown below.
Who Provides ESE Services?Every school in the district provides ESE services to students in prekindergarten though twelfth grade based on the individual needs of the child. School districts also have the option of serving children from birth who meet the disability criteria for participation. In addition to programs provided by school districts, the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) provides educational programs and services to qualifying students.
Schools use a variety of settings to provide services to meet the needs of
exceptional students, including self-contained and mainstream classrooms, separate
resource rooms, separate day schools, residential schools, hospitals, homes,
or other non-educational settings. Schools work with parents to determine
which of these placement settings will 
provide students with appropriate educational
opportunities in the least restrictive environment. Some students receive
exceptional student services full-time; others receive ESE services as a fraction
of their school day; and others have instructional accommodations and modifications
in the regular classroom.
Although the specific procedures used to identify eligible students vary for each exceptionality, the process includes the requirements listed below.
School Year 2007-2008
Open enrollment for the 2010-2011 school year now open.
Florida Intercultural Academy will accept applications for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade.