More than 600 students are served by the Weakley County Schools special education staff.Sharon School serves approximately 50 students each year.

The state of Tennessee has multiple categories of services that schools must provide to ensure free appropriate public education including autism, deaf, blindness, developmental delay, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, speech/language impairment and intellectually gifted.

Weakley County Schools Special Education services are covered by teachers, speech/language therapists, educational assistants, a school psychologist, a school social worker, bus drivers, and bus monitors. Additional services in speech/language therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, applied behavior analysis, and school psychology are also contracted on an as-needed basis.