Our Mission
Dynamic Opportunities is a small, non-profit middle and high school for neurodivergent students with unique abilities. 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 use the Project-Based Learning method (PBL) to teach the fundamental academic, life, 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 our 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
Dynamic Opportunities was born of the vision of three unassuming women who shared the conviction that every single one of their so-called “disabled” students were really each and every one quite “uniquely-abled” learners who, given time and creative support could achieve success in all areas of life. In the words of Temple Grandin, they firmly held that “In special education, there’s too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.” Hence, the formation of Dynamic Opportunities and it’s mantra “Fostering Unique Abilities… not Disabilities!”
We are now a rapidly growing non-profit, private middle and high school exclusively for neurodivergent youth from the Raleigh, NC area and beyond. Our primary mission is to identify and build upon neurodivergent students’ unique abilities while furthering the academic, life and social skills they will need to grow into self-confident, independent, and contributing members of our Society.
School Calendar 2025-2026
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.