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What is the Rise School?

The Rise School of San Antonio is a 501c3 that will provide the highest quality of early educational services to children ages six months to six years. At Rise, about 50% of children have disabilities and the other 50% are traditional learners, or children without disabilities. The inclusion of children of differing abilities is shown to be beneficial to both groups of children and is core to the school’s mission. Rise also provides speech/language, physical, occupational and music therapies to ensure that our students get the full range of developmental support they need.

Rise delivers intensive education, intervention, and therapy during the entire formative infant, toddler, and preschool years in a school-wide integrated environment. All children benefit from integrated education and therapies in the classroom. The need for The Rise School is great, as there are few resources that address the needs of families and children with developmental delays between 12 months and six years in our community.
Rise serves children aged 12-months through pre-kindergarten. Most children will finish the Rise program by age 5, while others will graduate at age 6.
Students may be dropped off starting at 7:30, and the school day starts at 8:00. Morning circle, during which the day’s concepts are introduced, starts promptly at 8:15. The regular school day ends at 2:30. Families can enroll in after-care until 5:00pm.
Rise uses Teaching Strategies, an evidence-based curriculum that connects strong teaching and learning experiences with assessment tools to enable individualized instruction. We also use Conscious Discipline, a social/emotional development curriculum.
Rise San Antonio is an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization. Our partnership with Christus Children’s allows us to lower program costs for our families. Christus provides Rise low-cost occupancy and subsidized speech, occupational and physical therapies.
YES! The Rise School of San Antonio is committed to doing everything it can to make the program affordable for all families. Approximately 3/4ths of our families receive financial assistance each year.