Eugene School District 4J is leasing one of its former elementary schools to a local nonprofit.
Bridgeway House, formed by a group of parents, has been supporting youth on the autism spectrum since 2000. It achieved nonprofit status in 2002 and started accepting students as a school in 2009, according to longtime Executive Director Patricia Wigney.
“You can imagine, in 2000 … if you even got a diagnosis back then, there was nothing,” Wigney said about autism resources…