I don’t recall our private HS providing much info about FAid at all. We didn’t qualify for FAid, so I didn’t pay much attention anyway. Sadly, the HS didn’t help parents or kids understand net costs of Us.
We did go several times to speak with the HS college counselor to ask for his help in creating a list of Us likely to give significant merit aid to S, given his grades and high test scores. S used that list to create his college list, adding a few Us. S did get significant merit aid from several of those Us and attended one of them.