LAKEWOOD -- State law enforcement officials conducted a series of raids Wednesday targeting a private special education school, the School for Children with Hidden Intelligence, Asbury Park Press reported.

Officers with the state Department of Law and Public Safety hauled away stacks of cardboard boxes and computer equipment from the school Wednesday evening, the newspaper reported. Authorities haven't yet commented as to the reason behind the raids.

SCHI, according to its website, "provides educational and therapeutic services by certified professional staff to children with disabilities as varied as autism, Down syndrome, ADHD, muscular dystrophy, Spina bifida, and cerebral palsy, among others."

The Asbury Park Press reported SCHI has previously sparked controversy over its high tuition, $97,000 per year, and the composition of the student body. To receive taxpayer-funded students from public school districts, the school is required to be nonsectarian but the overwhelming majority of students placed there by the Lakewood school district have been Orthodox Jewish children, according to the newspaper.

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