Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

The Nebraska Legislature passed an act to create the Institute for the Blind at Nebraska City on February 19, 1875, two years after Samuel Bacon had traveled to Nebraska to persuade the legislature to do so. According to the law, the school had to have at least of space, be less than from the Otoe County Courthouse, and for the community of Nebraska City to generate and pay $4,000. Bacon used much of his own funds to establish the school as the legislature did not appropriate much. There were initially three students enrolled. It received its current name in 1999. Today it remains a boarding school while also servicing the visually impaired students throughout the state. ==Student body==

In the 1990s the graduating classes had numbers as few as three students each. In 1998 it had 17 students. ==In media==

In 1976, Nebraska ETV produced a documentary about the school titled ''Look Where We're Going''. ==See also==