Woods Schools Appeal

Opinion by

Flood, J.,

The appellant, which operates a school for “exceptional” children and a research center, seeks a charitable exemption from local taxation for all of its real estate.

The right of exemption requires the institution to be one “of purely public charity” under Article 9, §1, of the Constitution and also to come within the terms *534of the Act of May 21, 1943, P. L. 571, Art. II, §202 ( 72 PS §5453.202) which exempts “all hospitals . . . and institutions of learning, benevolence or charity . . . founded, endowed and maintained by public or private charity: Provided, That the entire…