The History of Section 68 School in Waterloo Region is as follows:
1955
- Kitchener Cerebral Palsy School Board
- Located within KW Hospital in Kitchener
- Began with 6 students
1956
- School relocated to North Waterloo Society for Crippled Children building on King Street in Kitchener, which became The Rotary Children’s Centre.
1961
- School name changed to North Waterloo Children’s Centre Board of Education.
1995
- School location changed to 500 Hallmark Drive in Waterloo, with the opening of the new treatment centre.
1998
- School name changed to Rotary Centre School Authority
2000
- School name changed to Rotary Children’s Centre School Authority.
2003
- School expanded to a second site within the Cambridge Rotary Children’s Centre site.
- One additional classroom with 16 children added.
- Total of 80 children in Waterloo and Cambridge.
- School name changed to KidsAbility School Authority when the Centre changed its name to KidsAbility-Centre for Child Development.
2006
- Opened a second classroom at the Cambridge site with an additional 18 children.
2010
- KidsAbility School continues to provide special education programs in six classrooms located in the Waterloo and Cambridge sites of KidsAbility Centre for Child Development.
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