Our Mission
Dynamic Opportunities is a small, non-profit middle and high school for students with special needs (or “unique abilities”, as we like to say). We also offer an intensive Transitions Program to support young adults who are moving into adulthood.
Nine teachers and four Teacher Assistants offer 6 hours of instruction per day with frequent community-based field trips. We are working collaboratively with our families in a project-based learning environment to teach the relevant academic skills, life skills, and social skills these uniquely-abled students need to become independent and contributing members of the community.
As a private school, we strive to provide both a comprehensive life skills-based education for our students and a support system for their families.
Instead of focusing on our students’ disabilities, we work with parents to promote acceptance and a growth mindset as we recognize and foster each of the unique abilities these youth bring to the table. Thus results a community of empowered learners who are supported and guided by engaged teachers and parents: a community where students are never underestimated or marginalized as they so often are in more traditional models of education.
Our History
In 2015, three special needs teachers got together to start a homeschool co-op just for students with special needs. In just a couple of years, they transformed this co-op into a blossoming school that not only welcomes unique abilities, but embraces them. Now in our 10th year and thriving, we have grown from 19 to 60 students. Join us as we continue to grow, celebrate, and support our students and their families during this very special Anniversary year!
School Calendar 2024-25
Download pdf: 2024-2025 School Calendar
Certificates Offered
We offer a Diploma or a Certificate of Completion depending on the student’s level of achievement within our program.
Tuition
2025-2026: $7,850 per semester – fees included. Go to Admissions to find out more about Grants and Financial Aid!
Dynamic Dayz
Dynamic Dayz! offers coverage from 7:30 AM until 5:30 PM for an additional fee. If you are in need of extended day services, please contact Administration to get enrolled.
Transitions Program
In addition to our middle and high school, we offer a project-based Transitions Program for those students transitioning from high school to adulthood. See our Transitions Program page for more information.
Partners
- Arts Together offers fantastic Music and Movement workshops to our students, and hosts our school dance troupe for a spot in the Rainbow Dance company each year.
- We support Smiling While Sending Hope, a local non-profit organization serving young adults with IDD and/or serious health problems.
- NCSU’s AgEd Program sends students who are learning to teach special needs youth out to us each year to give hands-on instruction on “farm” topics like animals and horticulture.
- SEWA USA‘s Design-to-Lead is a buddy program with typical high school peers from around the county who volunteer their time to be mentors and friends with our students.
- HTI (Hubzone Technology Initiative) is partnering with Dynamic Opportunities to get refurbished technology into the hands of those who need it most.