Southeastern Coop Ed Program

Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs (SECEP) is a regional public school agency established in 1978 by the school divisions of Chesapeake, Franklin, Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Southampton, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach, with support from the Virginia Department of Education. Organized under the Code of Virginia as a jointly owned public body, it provides specialized settings, curriculum, and services for students with significant special-education and alternative-education needs across the Hampton Roads region. Its programs include the Autism Spectrum Program (ASP), Educational and Behavioral Interventions for Challenging Students (EBICS), the Re-Education of Children (Re-ED) program, Raising Expectations and Abilities for Children with Complex Health Needs (REACH), and the Tidewater Regional Alternative Education Program (TRAEP).

The administrative office listed at this address, 6160 Kempsville Circle in Norfolk, sits in the Kempsville Circle area of eastern Norfolk near the Virginia Beach boundary. SECEP operates multiple program sites across its member divisions rather than functioning as a single conventional school building; some center-based programs are hosted at partner facilities such as St. Mary's Home and Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk. Because it is a specialized cooperative serving students by referral from member divisions, it is classified as 'ungraded' and does not report the standard SOL, graduation, or accreditation metrics of a comprehensive school.