1. Centennial School of Lehigh University, located in Bethlehem, PA, pursues two principal missions:

1. Serving children and youth with educational disabilities
2. Preparing high quality teachers to enter the workforce of special education.

2. Is a special education day-school licensed to serve students, ages 6 through 21, classified under the Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA-04) as emotionally disturbed or autistic.

3. Serves local school districts and intermediate units in the Lehigh Valley and supplies educational services to approximately 100 students, and their families, every year.

4. Is funded through the Pennsylvania Department of Education and governed by Lehigh University.

5. The operating budget for 2006-2007 was nearly 3 million dollars.

6. For the past 8 years, 100% of those Centennial graduate students who have sought teaching positions in school districts have successfully acquired employment, mostly in Pennsylvania but some as far away as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, and Virginia.

7. Works with students with emotional disabilities without the use of physical restraint and seclusionary time-out.

8. Uses a team approach to working with students.

9. Over the past three years, the Centennial faculty has presented 42 papers at state, regional, and national and international professional conferences.

10. Over the past 8 years, Centennial has successfully acquired over $600,000 in grant funding.

11. Operates a Technical Assistance Program that offers an array of high quality consultative services to school districts, charter schools and private schools.