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Colwich Elementary School

Cultivating Excellence in All Students

Special Education Cooperative

Contact information for the Special Education Cooperative, including address, phone number, and email.

 

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

Special education and related services are offered to eligible students starting on their third birthday and continuing to age 21.

The Bright Start logo features three stylized figures with arms raised, above the text 'Bright Start early education'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Screening dates for the 2025-26 school year:

July 25th at Maize Early Childhood Center

August 29th at Maize Early Childhood Center

September 12th at Colwich Elementary School

October 10th Maize Early Childhood Center

November 14th at Andale Elementary School

December 12th at Maize Early Childhood Center

January 16th at St. Marks

February 20th at Maize Early Childhood Center

March 6th at Garden Plain Elementary

April 10th at Maize Early Childhood Center

May 8th at Colwich Elementary School

June 1st at Maize Early Childhood Center

July 31st at Maize Early Childhood Center