Eastern Service Unit

The Eastern Service Unit (ESU) serves students in four school districts with handicapping conditions including: learning disabilities, cognitive impairment, emotional impairment, speech and language impairment, and physical impairment. Constituent members of ESU include Fruitport, Oakridge, Orchard View, and Ravenna school districts. Special education services and facilities are available for students from birth through age 26.

Programs provided by the Eastern Service Unit are:

North-East Education Center - The North East Education Center is a centralized program for students who are emotionally impaired, grades K-12. It serves the four ESU districts and five other school districts in Muskegon County through a cooperative arrangement between the Eastern and North Service Units.

Eastern Service Unit Cognitively Impaired (CI) Programs - Fruitport Community Schools house the regional programs for the cognitively impaired, through age 26, which are administered by the Eastern Service Unit. Classrooms are located at Beach Elementary School, Fruitport Middle School and Fruitport High School. Individualized programming for this special needs population emphasizes self help skills, community based instruction and vocational training.

Eastern Service Unit Severely Impaired (SXI) Programs - Housed at Wolf Lake Elementary and the Middle School in the Oakridge School District. These programs serve students from grade K-12. These students require specialized instruction and care in order to meet their physical, emotional and academic needs as determined by an IEP team.

Eastern Service Unit Early Childhood Special Education Home Program - The ESU Early Childhood Special Education Home Program, provides special education services to children from birth through age two who have handicapping conditions. Students are referred through a variety of sources, including parents, physicians, the Muskegon County Health Department and local hospitals. A diagnostic team determines eligibility.