The Exceptional Needs Program (ENP) is a building replacement program that provides low wealth school districts with the ability to protect the health and safety of their students with a new facility.

The focus of the ENP program is to identify the facilities in most need of replacement from among the eligible applicants. The program has a single building orientation, so it will not necessarily fund a district's entire facilities needs (though that may occur in some instances). Districts awarded an ENP building may also participate in both the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program and/or the Expedited Local Partnership Program (ELPP) to complete the balance of their facility needs.

Eligibility is open only to those districts with a ranking on the yearly Ohio Department of Education (ODE) “School Facilities Eligibility Ranking List” of lower than the 75th percentile. Districts that can expect to be served by the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program within a 3-year period are ineligible to participate. Recent legislative changes allow large land area school districts and districts that participated in the ELPP pilot program to compete in ENP, regardless of their rank.