Lakewood's School for Children with Hidden Intelligence 99% white, despite minority school district

LAKEWOOD - A Lakewood special-education school, which has been under fire since its director was indicted earlier this year, caters almost exclusively to white students, despite receiving millions of tax dollars from a mostly minority school district, an Asbury Park Press investigation has found.

Of the 202 New Jersey public school students sent to the School for Children with Hidden Intelligence during the 2016-2017 school year, just one is non-white, public school documents obtained by the Press show.

These findings are reminiscent of years-old allegations of segregation at the school, commonly called SCHI (pronounced "shy&quot , which were part of a report by the state Department of Education in 2006, but that report was later withdrawn.

The Press found that little has changed in the school's enrollment of minorities in the decade since that report came out, even as it continues to grow and collect tens of millions of dollars every year in taxpayer money. In the 2016-2017 school year, the impoverished Lakewood Public Schools with mostly minority children paid SCHI $22.9 million in tuition, district officials said.

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