provides products, services, and ideas that enhance student achievement and development.
It primarily serves the prekindergarten through twelfth grade education market in the United States and Canada.
The company operates in two product lines, general classroom products, and specialty products, including publishing materials, geared towards specific educational disciplines.
Its specialty businesses offer supplemental educational products for specific disciplines.
The company’s supply market includes the sale of supplemental educational products, consumable materials, furniture, and equipment to school districts, individual schools, teachers, and curriculum specialists for school and classroom use.
School Specialty served approximately 118,000 schools throughout the United States and Canada with a range of approximately 85,000 products and services, as of August 23, 2004.
The company was founded in 1959 and was spun-off from U.
S. Office Products in 1998.
The company is headquartered in Greenville, Wisconsin.
