AKRON, Ohio -- Akron schools are investigating after a student with special needs was left on a school van parked outside the driver’s home for three hours Wednesday morning in freezing temperatures.

The 20-year-old student, who attends North High School, has returned home in good health, Akron Public Schools spokesman Mark Williamson told cleveland.com.

The student rode the van to North High but he did not get off with other riders when they arrived at the school, Williamson said. The driver went home and the student remained in the van at the driver’s home from about 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Some Akron students are transported by “certified, insured, background-checked private drivers using their own vehicles,” Williamson said. The man who was driving the van has worked for the district for 13 years.

Akron set a record low temperature of 10 degrees at 6:43 a.m., breaking the 1911 record of 12, and temperatures remained below freezing all morning, according to the National Weather Service in Cleveland.

At 8 a.m., it was 12 degrees in Akron, NWS said. It was 13 degrees at 9 a.m., 19 degrees at 10 a.m. and 23 degrees at 11 a.m.

“Akron Public Schools is relieved the student is okay and is investigating the matter," Williamson said in a statement. "The district needs to determine just what happened both with the driver and those assisting at the school at the time students were helped from the van.”

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