Built for families
navigating ADHD.
A mastery-based online school designed around how ADHD brains actually learn - small group cohorts with body doubling built in, adaptive pacing, and 1:1 support when your child needs it. ESA and state funding can cover up to full tuition for qualifying families.
What traditional school keeps getting wrong.
ADHD isn't a motivation problem or a discipline problem. It's a structural mismatch between how schools are built and how these kids learn.
Children with ADHD score lower on reading and arithmetic, earn lower GPAs, and are more likely to repeat a grade. Medication helps but doesn't close it.
Movement breaks, extended time, audio options - every one fought for. The friction itself is exhausting, for kids and parents.
A class moves on whether or not your child was with it that day. One missed stretch becomes a hole nobody goes back for, and the holes compound for years.
The research, named.
Three design choices, each backed by research. We didn't pick this shape because it sounded good - we picked it because it's what the evidence keeps saying.
A recent meta-analysis of K-12 adaptive learning systems found a pooled effect of d = 0.755 - with the largest gains (d = 0.842) for students with ADHD specifically.
Across 96 randomized studies, tutoring produced an average effect size of 0.37 SD - roughly 14 percentile points of additional learning - making it among the most reliably effective interventions in education.
In a 2020 study, adults with ADHD completed 37% more tasks in parallel-work settings. An ADHD Coaching Association survey found 80% of clients reported significant improvements using body doubling. Cleveland Clinic explains this as the activation energy and accountability ADHD brains struggle to generate alone.
A school shaped around ADHD brains.
Every component is here for a reason - and the reason traces back to the research above.
Math, English, science, history - taught live in small group cohorts, mastery-based, on your child's pace. A handful of kids working together beats a 25-kid classroom, and 1:1 support is there when your child needs it.
Every school day starts in a small pod - the same kids, the same Recess adult. Body-doubling that ends nightly homework battles.
Filmmaking, debate, chess, esports, entrepreneurship. Where kids find their people instead of masking through another lunch period.
A real person on our team,
within one business day.
Tell us a little about your child. We'll confirm your state-funding award, walk through what's covered, and figure out together if Recess is the right fit.