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[quote=Anonymous]This is for high school: We really liked BWL too. My DC has ADHD. Surprisingly, BWL did not try to upsell us on their supports program (I forget what they call it)...they told us proactively that they thought our child would do fine without the mandatory study halls and EF teachers, but that if a time ever came that they needed it, they could be switched easily into it. All classes are mainstreamed... additional help happens during designated study hall periods. We felt that school was warm and supportive, and the students were happy and confident. My child was super enthusiastic about the robotics team when they met them, and as parents, we felt like the administration worked hard to meet children where they were, and provided classes that met a spectrum of learning interests and abilities. We preferred it to Dwight, which felt larger and flashier, and we did not apply to York after looking at it because it felt more like a special needs schools than the others and our child did not need that level of support. 
The head of school at BWL seems very driven and dynamic, and they are definitely trying to up the academics. They lean heavily on APs for rigor it seemed like (as opposed to schools like Trevor and Grace who clearly state that they do not teach to the AP tests although a student is welcome to take it on their own). A reason we discussed the importance of APs is because my child has expressed interest in going to college abroad, and I learned this year that if you do not go to a IB school, foreign universities require often require a certain number of APs to demonstrate proficiency and rigor, and if a school doesn't offer them, you have to be strategic in planning your high school curriculum (hence also looking at Dwight and Leman). 
I also know some people have feelings about how BWL handled DEI...I can't speak to that since we weren't aware of that until friends told us about it well into the application process.
For comparison, we applied to Trevor, Friends, Browning, Packer, Grace, CGPS, Leman, BWL and Loyola. My child got into them all, and we ended up at Grace, which has a robust Learning Center, and appealed to my child due to the size, breadth of offerings, and 9am start time (we are also a downtown family). We have a plan in place to take AP tests. If there was a spectrum of supports, I'd say in the schools we applied to it went from most supports at BWL, to least at Friends and Packer (Loyola doesn't have any either, but it is so small it didn't feel like it would be a problem).[/quote]

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