Eastern Schools for the Deaf Athletic Association
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| Abbreviation | ESDAA |
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| Formation | 1927 |
| Legal status | Association |
| Purpose | Athletic/Educational |
| Membership | 17 Deaf Schools |
Official language | ASL & English |
| Affiliations | National Federation of State High School Athletics Association (NFSHSAA) & National Deaf Interscholastic Athletic Association (NDIAA) |
| Website | www |
The Eastern Schools for the Deaf Athletic Association (ESDAA) is an organization that oversees and regulates deaf interscholastic athletics in the US States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and West Virginia. The ESDAA is headquartered at the Lexington School for the Deaf in East Elmhurst, New York. ESDAA is the oldest Deaf High School Athletic Association in the US, founded in 1927. We recently became a nonprofit 501c3 organization in December 2023.
From 1927 to present, 24 schools were members of ESDAA. Only 17 schools remains today. Ohio School for the Deaf, which joined in 2015, is the new and most-recently added member. Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind rejoined the conference in 2021.
Current member schools:
- American School for the Deaf (West Hartford, Connecticut)
- Delaware School for the Deaf (Newark, Delaware)[1]
- Lexington School and Center for the Deaf (Queens, New York)
- Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf (Trenton, New Jersey)[2]
- Marie Philip & Walden School – The Learning Center for the Deaf (Framingham, Massachusetts)
- Maryland School for the Deaf (Frederick, Maryland)
- Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf (Mill Neck, New York)[3]
- New York School for the Deaf (White Plains, New York)[3]
- New York State School for the Deaf (Rome, New York)[3]
- Ohio School for the Deaf (Columbus, Ohio)
- Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Rhode Island School for the Deaf (Providence, Rhode Island)[3]
- Rochester School for the Deaf (Rochester, New York)
- St. Mary's School for the Deaf (Buffalo, New York)[3]
- Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind (Staunton, Virginia)
- West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind (Romney, West Virginia)
- Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (Edgewood, Pennsylvania)
Former member schools:
- Austine School (Brattleboro, Vermont)
- Boston School for the Deaf (Randolph, Massachusetts)
- Governor Baxter School for the Deaf (Mackworth Island, Maine)
- Kendall School (Washington, D.C.)
- Model Secondary School for the Deaf (Washington, D.C.)
- St. Joseph's School for the Deaf (New York City, New York)
- Scranton School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children (Scranton, Pennsylvania)[3]