Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf

The New Jersey Legislature began funding education specially tailored to deaf students, at first sent to schools out of state, in 1821.

The school opened in 1883 in the former Soldiers’ Children's Home of New Jersey in Trenton.

Circa 1893 the New Jersey State Board of Education assumed responsibility of the school, which resulted in it being overseen by the department.

It was renamed the New Jersey School for the Deaf in 1900 and moved to West Trenton circa 1920, with the elementary opening there in 1823 and subsequent grades afterward.

[2] In the 1960s an epidemic of German measles deafened many New Jersey children, leading to MKSD's peak enrollment, with the student population up to 600.