Welcome to the Willie Ross School for the Deaf. Our school was founded in 1967 by parents who sought to establish an innovative program for their child. Their focus was on academic excellence and educational achievement.
The Willie Ross School for the Deaf is a small school with an ambitious mission and a rich history. The focus of the school, since its founding by parents in 1967, has been on providing quality programs and services to the deaf and hard-of-hearing students that it serves. Willie Ross has always invested in student programs before facilities and has long acknowledged that its human resources are the most precious resource that it possesses.
The Willie Ross School for the Deaf provides a comprehensive educational program stressing academic excellence that focuses on the development of students’ intellectual, social, and emotional growth. The School fosters appreciation of the dignity of every individual and acceptance of the many cultures within our society. Willie Ross School offers a program which encourages the development of the necessary combination of academic strengths, social skills, and general preparation for successful participation in society upon the completion of students’ studies. This goal is accomplished through the dual-campus model, which offers an immersion approach (deaf students learning together) and inclusion (academic and community mainstreaming – deaf and hearing students learning together).
