Nearly 1,600 students with disabilities receive services in all district schools, either in separate programs specially tailored to meet their needs, or in regular classrooms with appropriate assistance. Preschool-age students with disabilities attend The Village. Eligible students age 18-21 are served in a community-based transition program. All schools provide identification services to determine a student’s eligibility for special education, and the Child Find screening service identifies special needs children younger than age five. In compliance with state law, vision and hearing screening services are provided for all students in kindergarten, first, second, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth grade.

The District's special education programs serves students from the ages of three through 21. Each school site has, at a minimum, a building resource team, consisting of a resource teacher, school psychologist, speech/language pathologist, and occupational therapist. Specific programs include: Child Find, Early Childhood, SCIL (Self-Contained Individualized Learning), PACE (Progression for Adaptive and Cognitive Education), Transition, services for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired, Visually Impaired, and Audiology.

The PACE teacher for Whitman Elementary School is Donna Millar.