Dynamic Minds Academy

Indianapolis Charter School for Autism · Est. 2019

Grow your own
way.

Where education meets therapy. Dynamic Minds Academy bridges the gap between treatment and academics for students on the autism spectrum — K–12 plus a vocational lab through age 22.

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Our Signature Approach

The Blended Model

We don't separate therapy from school — we weave them together. ABA therapy, academics, and support services share one roof, one schedule, one team. Because social and emotional well-being is just as important as a report card.

  • 3:1Student-to-teacher ratio in every classroom
  • 240School days a year — no long-break regression
  • K–22From kindergarten through a vocational lab
  • Built-inEvery IEP accommodation — never asked for
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Class of 2025 · Milestone

Fourteen graduates.
One mission.

14

Graduates

584

Credits Earned

What students achieve when the right academic rigor meets the right therapeutic support — proof that the Blended Model works, one diploma at a time.

He is happy, safe and comfortable. He has opened up into an amazing young man — striving for a diploma instead of settling for a certificate of completion. Our lives have been full of hope, and will continue because The Hope Source and Dynamic Minds Academy have allowed us to feel it.

Parent of a 16-year-old

DMA Family · Bigs program

Life at DMA

Days made for growing.

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Daily life at DMA

Our Story

Born of a vision unfulfilled.

2009 — 2019 — Today

The Hope Source began offering modern therapeutic services for children with autism in February 2009. Years of partnerships with cyber charters and options schools moved opportunity forward — but the full vision remained unfulfilled.

From that gap, Dynamic Minds Academy was born in 2019. One roof. One team. ABA therapy and academic instruction woven together so social and emotional well-being get the same weight as a grade — because that's what readiness for learning actually looks like.

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Ready when you are

Let's talk about your child.

Tours, questions, enrollment paperwork — wherever you are in the journey, we'd love to hear from you.

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