The main purpose of this study was to find out the contributions and challenges of Sebeta SpecialrnSchool for the students with visual impairments. The research design used was qualitative casernstudy method as this would enable the researcher to make in-depth study of the case fromrndifferent perspectives. For responding to this main purpose of the study, purposive sampling wasrnused and the subjects of the study were selected by purposive sampling technique as they wererntaught to have the necessary information for the problem under study. Accordingly, twelvernteachers, (six males and six females), ten members of the support staff (five males and fivernfemales) and twelve students of grades five to eight (six males and six females) were selected forrnfocus group discussions. Besides, interview was conducted with the director and vice-director ofrnthe school and two teachers (a male and a female) and two students of grades five to eight (arnmale and a female).Relevant documents and observation checklists were also used as datarnsources. Finally, the data collected were organized, thematically analyzed and presented.rnRegarding the contributions made, the findings revealed that the school has been serving thernstudents as school to learn in and succeed, home to live in and family to leave with. There werernalso services being delivered for the students and different resources were also available in thernspecial school. Findings displayed that challenges to the special school as manpower assignmentrnwas not need based and there were lack of skills necessary to run activities in the special schoolrnas reading and writing braille, inadequate budget and resources like student textbooksrntranscribed in to braille and wastages in usage of the available resources. Besides, there werernconditions that violate the safety of students. The recommendations made included such things asrnalleviating the challenges the school encountered such as appropriate use of resource, availingrnthe necessary resources as braille textbooks, budget and others.