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Autism Schools & Special Education in Cape Coral

Cape Coral gained something Southwest Florida had been missing: Thrive Academy, a private high school built specifically for autistic students. Combine that with Florida's FES-UA scholarship - which scales with your child's assessed level of need, sometimes well past $20,000 - and the economics here are genuinely different from most of the country.

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Thrive Academy (Family Initiative)

Private autism high school

Private high school in Cape Coral for students on the autism spectrum, run by Family Initiative, which has served autistic children in Southwest Florida since 2015.

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Lee County Schools - Exceptional Student Education Programs

Public special education

District ESE programs including the Social Functioning and Social Emerging autism programs, which serve distinctly different student profiles.

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Lee County Schools - Special Centers

Public separate school sites

Separate school sites for students with the most significant needs; ask what was tried at a neighbourhood school first.

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Step Up For Students - FES-UA

State scholarship administrator

Main administrator for Florida's Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities, where award size scales with assessed matrix level.

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