Georgia Special Needs Scholarship

1. The student’s parent currently resides within Georgia and has been a Georgia resident for at least one calendar year;

2. The student received preschool special education or related services in the previous school year;

3. The student must be entering Kindergarten for the applicable school year;

4. The student must attain the age of five on or before September 1 of the applicable school year.

1. A student must have a parent/guardian who currently lives in Georgia and has been a resident for at least one calendar year;

2. A student was enrolled and completed the entire school year in a Georgia public school in grades kindergarten through twelfth prior to transfer to private school;

3. A student was reported as attending a Georgia public school by a school district(s) during mandatory student counts conducted in October and March of the qualifying year;

4. A student must have received special education services at some point during the school year through an IEP (a student does not need to have an IEP for the entire school year to qualify). A student must be reported by a school district(s) in either the October OR March student counts OR in the final student record as a student receiving special education services by the end of the school year.

1. The student’s parent currently resides within Georgia and has been a Georgia resident for at least one calendar year;

2. The student must have spent the prior school year in attendance at a Georgia public school;

3. The student had a 504 plan in effect during the previous school year.