Application Process
1. Start with a Conversation
2. Visit Bayhill
3. Complete an Application
When you're ready to apply, complete our online application and submit the requested supporting documents. These may include an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or 504 Plan, psychological, academic, and/or speech-language assessments, and a recent transcript.
See our application checklist for a complete list of required documents.
4. Schedule a Shadow Visit
A Shadow Visit gives prospective students the opportunity to experience Bayhill for themselves. Students spend part of the school day on campus, attend classes, meet teachers and students, and get a sense of what a typical day at Bayhill is really like.
Prospective students are paired with a student ambassador who can help them find their way around, answer questions, and introduce them to the Bayhill community.
Meet our Admissions Director
Nora McPartland
If you have any questions or need support, please reach out to Nora McPartland.
Finding the Right Fit
Choosing the right school is a big decision, and we want families to have plenty of opportunities to get to know Bayhill along the way. Our admissions process is designed to help you learn about our program while giving us the chance to get to know your child- their strengths, challenges, interests, and what they need to thrive at school.
Bayhill serves students with a range of learning differences and neurodivergent profiles, including dyslexia and other language-based learning differences, ADHD, executive functioning challenges, nonverbal learning differences, and autism. Many of our students have overlapping learning profiles and benefit from a small, supportive school environment where teachers understand how they learn.
Because every student is different, we look beyond a diagnosis or label when considering whether Bayhill is the right fit. Through conversations with families, educational records and assessments, and time spent with student, we work to understand each young person as an individual- and to make sure Bayhill can provide the academic program and school environment they need to grow and succeed.
