The K-12 Guidance Plan can be found to the right under Additional Resources.

The Office of Special Services provides a variety of educational services to the students in Hatboro Horsham School District. These services are designed to meet the unique educational needs of our student population. Services include, but are not limited to, school counseling, school psychological services, nursing, resources for homeless students, school based medical ACCESS programming, and gifted education. Special Services staff members work collaboratively with the Office of Special Education to ensure a continuum of services for all students.

Surrogate Parents: The School District is responsible for ensuring the rights of a child when no parent can be identified, the parent has been unable to be located following reasonable attempts to do so, the child is a ward of the state, or a child has been identified as an unaccompanied youth through the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. If you are interested in volunteering your time as a surrogate parent, please contact the Director of Special Education/Special Services. Interested parties must be at least 18 years of age.

Important Change in Definition of “Compulsory School Age”

Effective September 26, 2019, all children from the age of six (6) through the age of eighteen (18) must comply with compulsory school attendance requirements.  To meet these requirements, parents must ensure that their child between the ages of 6 and 18 is attending or participating in one of the following: a public elementary, middle, or high school; a public charter or cyber-charter school; a private licensed academic or private religious school; home tutoring by a certified teacher; or an approved program of home schooling.  Children may be excused from compulsory attendance for documented medical or other compelling reasons as outlined in District attendance policy and procedures.

All test protocols and other raw data used as part of an evaluation or reevaluation will be considered no longer educationally relevant at the conclusion of the school year during which the evaluation or reevaluation has occurred. 

All IEP progress monitoring data will be considered no longer educationally relevant as of the date on which such data are reported to parents or guardians in a progress report or at the conclusion of the school year during which such data are collected, whichever is sooner.

 All notes of IEP team members and draft IEPs, if any, will be considered no longer educationally relevant as of the date that the IEP to which such notes of drafts pertain is issued to the parents or guardian.

 All Permissions to Evaluate or Reevaluate, Invitations to IEP or Other Meetings and related documents, Evaluation or Reevaluation Reports, IEPs, Notices of Recommended Educational Placement and related documents, Complaint Investigation Reports, Mediation Agreements, and Hearing Officer Decisions will be considered no longer educationally relevant at the conclusion of the sixth year from the date on which the student graduates from High School, ceases residency in the District for reasons other than placement in a hospital or treatment facility, or attains the age of 21 or the end of age of eligibility , whichever is sooner.

 Parents and guardians have the right to request, in writing, that the District destroy any or all records deemed no longer educationally relevant. The District, at its discretion, may also destroy such records without further notice to parents, guardians, or students.