I've name changed because there is likely to be a bit of identifying detail in this.
DS is a fantastic sportsman and athlete, and pretty much rubbish at everything else school related. He's currently in 1st year of my old secondary school. They are generally very helpful with him, but he is disruptive and is probably going to be asked to leave at the end of the summer term (meeting with the head in the next week or two to discuss). He has autism but isn't a usual presentation of it, he's very extrovert, loud, has a low boredom threshold, poor impulse control and is easily distracted. The ways in which is autism presents more typically are being very literal and not getting the gist of what's going on, which means he's quite often out of step or doing the wrong thing because he's misunderstood the instructions.
He did get into Newpark, which I know can be better for less academic kids, but we turned down the place as we felt that it wouldn't have enough structure for him and he would run wild. He needs quite a bit of supervision as his judgement about acceptable behaviour is really bad and (as I said above) he has very little impulse control. I doubt we would get a place in Newpark for next year anyway as they were hugely oversubscribed for first year.
Any thoughts? I don't mind about fee-paying or not, but I would like somewhere that will be offering PE for Leaving Cert (which is current school will be doing) if at all possible.
TIA