The Department of Pupil Services oversees all aspects of student support services, including attendance, exceptional education, safe and drug-free schools, school counseling, nurses, homebound instruction, alternative education program, and English as a Second Language. Click here for information on exceptional and gifted education.

English as a Second Language
ESL services are provided at each school on as as-needs basis by a certified ESL instructor. ESL Instructors deliver a comprehensive program for children with limited English proficiency, using instructional management system models that lead to increased student learning. The teacher serves as a liaison between the parents or guardians and the educational community, assists regular teachers of LEP students in modifying their instructional programs and in assessing and grading LEP students.

Homebound Instruction
Putnam County Schools provides home-teaching or visiting-teacher services for students who are homebound due to injury or who, for any other reason as certified by a licensed physician, are homebound for a period that has lasted or will last more than two (2) weeks.

Five (5) groups of students eligible to receive home/hospital instruction:

Provision of home/hospital instruction for any student requires documentation or verification by a licensed physician of an injury, health problem or a condition that requires that student to be homebound or hospitalized for a period that has lasted or will last more than two (2) weeks.