Special Education Cooperative
Renwick partners with the Maize Special Education Cooperative which offers a range of special education services based on an individual’s needs. Special education and related services are available to resident children attending public, private, and parochial schools who are identified as being educationally disabled in any of the following areas:
- Specific learning disabilities
- Emotional disturbance
- Intellectual disability
- Speech or language impairment
- Other health impairments
- Orthopedic impairment
- Autism
- Visual impairment/blind
- Hearing impairment and deafness
- Deaf/blindness
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young child with a developmental delay
- Multiple disabilities
Free Bright Start Screenings
If you live in the Renwick or Maize school districts, the Kansas Department of Education invites you to attend a free screening through the Maize COOP. The purpose of the screening is to assess children, aged from birth through five, in the areas of walking, talking, seeing, hearing, and learning.
Call 316-722-3105 (Monday-Friday 7:30am-4:15pm) or email brightstart@usd266.com to make an appointment for a developmental screening for a child age birth to 5 years old and living in the Maize or Renwick school district. During June or July, please call (316) 350-2088.
creening dates for the 2026-27 school year:
- July 31, 2026 Maize Early Childhood Center
- Aug. 28, 2026 Maize Early Childhood Center
- Sept. 18, 2026 Colwich Elementary School
- Oct. 23, 2026 Maize Early Childhood Center
- Nov. 13, 2026 Andale Elementary School
- Dec. 11, 2026 Maize Early Childhood Center
- Jan. 15, 2027 St. Marks
- Feb. 12, 2027 Maize Early Childhood Center
- March 5, 2027 Garden Plain Elementary
- April 9, 2027 Maize Early Childhood Center
- May 7, 2027 Colwich Elementary School
- June 1, 2027 Maize Early Childhood Center
- July 30, 2027 Maize Early Childhood Center