Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you everyone. Thx to you I now know about SWW at Francis Stevens -- a new school for my list.
If any of these schools is considered great for neurotypical kids, I'd be curious about that too.
Ideally my HFA kid and my neurotypical one will go to the same school. They are one grade apart. Though perhaps that's a question for a different forum.
But I dread the thought of having my kids at different schools. Life is complicated enough.
I just spoke to the coordinator of the DCPS HFA programs today and you can't apply to them through the lottery (Francis Stevens is now middle school, plus Barnard, Takoma, SWS-Goding). You have to have your child at a DCPS elementary first, with an IEP and then that sending school has to say that your child can't be supported there. They are not traditional gen-ed seats, so not available via lottery.