Disruptive Spec. Ed. Students Get Own School

Rutland, Vt.

A few minutes after 9 a.m., the boisterous students begin to arrive at Success School. Bustling through the front doors, they shout greetings to the teachers and counselors and head down the dim hallway, tracking in snow and mud from the leftover winter landscape.

But that's where any similarity to a typical middle or high school ends. The students, who barely outnumber this school's teachers and aides, are part of one Vermont district's experiment to help students whose behavior keeps them from...