West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind

West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
The schools' administration building, 2013
Address
301 East Main Street Romney , West Virginia 26757 United States
Coordinates	39°20′26″N 78°45′07″W / 39.34056°N 78.75194°W / 39.34056; -78.75194
Information
Type	Public school
Motto	Vision: Achieve. Challenge. Thrive.[1]
Established	March 3, 1870 (1870-03-03)[2]
School board	West Virginia Board of Education[2]
State Superintendent	W. Clayton Burch
Schools' Superintendent	Patricia Homberg
Dean of Students	Melanie Hesse
Website	www.wvsdb2.state.k12.wv.us

The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (WVSDB) were established by an Act of the Legislature on March 3, 1870. The School for the Deaf and the School for the Blind offer comprehensive educational programs for hearing impaired and visually impaired students respectively. There is also a unit for deafblind and multihandicapped children. Students are eligible to enroll at the age of three, must be residents of the state of West Virginia and exhibit a hearing or visual loss sufficient to prevent normal progress in the usual public school setting. The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind are located on a campus in Romney in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Locally, the schools are referred to simply as The state school.

Both the School for the Deaf and the School for the Blind are supervised by the West Virginia Board of Education, supported by the state of West Virginia, and fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools at the elementary and secondary levels.