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That is not the concern, OP. What you should be concerned about is the availability of ADHD meds and other prescription drugs in high schools. There is a black market for them, and some parents push doctors to diagnose ADHD so that their children can receive meds to "give them extra focus".

Regarding accommodations such as extra time, schools normally do their own testing, even when presented with a private evaluation. So then it becomes a question of how thorough the school is on testing. I imagine it varies by school, but there are a lot of safeguards and red tape put in place. Usually parents have the opposite problem, when they can't get the school to agree on services for their child!

There are intelligent and capable students who have compensated for their issues throughout their schooling only to fall apart in high school - I was one of them.
But so many are doing this now that the fraud concern is legitimate. I always tell parents who are concerned about their child's development to seek evaluations well before high school, and if need be, have an IEP or 504 plan with corresponding accommodations already in place by middle school.

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