Partnership Campus - East Longmeadow

The Partnership Campus within the East Longmeadow Public Schools provides our deaf or hard-of-hearing students with the unique opportunity to attend school with hearing peers while receiving a Willie Ross School education in one of our specialized classrooms. This partnership approach combines the social and educational benefits of mainstream education with the individualized instruction and communication services provided at a school for the deaf.

All Willie Ross Partnership Campus classrooms are staffed by Willie Ross School’s licensed teachers of the deaf and support staff including on-site audiologists, physical education instructors and counselors.  The full-range of academic curricula is drawn from the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework and is adapted for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the Willie Ross classrooms.  In some cases, Willie Ross students may have the opportunity to mainstream into classes taught by the host school’s educators. This decision to mainstream is determined by a student’s team; however, Willie Ross students interact with public school students during lunch, recess and assembly programs on a regular basis.

The options provided by the Partnership Campus program are flexible so that students with a range of hearing losses can have their communicational and academic needs met on an individual basis.  The Willie Ross Partnership Campus offers students the best of both schools in a supportive, yet challenging, environment.