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At the heart of every person is a desire to know and to be known. Free K-12 Classical School Near I-10 and 410

Valor San Antonio is a tuition-free K-12 classical charter school dedicated to educating the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life.

10/23/2026

Juniors from each Valor school recently returned from their Wilderness Expeditions in Utah and Colorado. These trips to some of the country's most beautiful places invite students to break free from the distractions often present in our contemporary life. They provide the opportunity to awaken to a deepened sense of wonder for the natural world and closeness as a community of friends.

10/16/2026

We invite you to explore life as a member of the Valor team! We have open positions for teachers, staff, and school leaders at all five of our campuses in Austin and San Antonio. Attend one of our fall career fairs to meet our Headmasters, ask questions, and learn more about Valor's vision for an education fueled by wonder. See details and RSVP below:

Valor South Austin Career Fair on Thursday, Oct. 22:
www.eventbrite.com/e/2001218842429
Valor San Antonio Career Fair on Tuesday, Oct. 27: www.eventbrite.com/e/2001076316129
Valor Leander Career Fair on Tuesday, Oct. 27: www.eventbrite.com/e/2001217567616
Valor Kyle Career Fair on Tuesday, Nov. 3: www.eventbrite.com/e/2001221637790
Valor North Austin Career Fair on Tuesday, Nov. 17: www.eventbrite.com/e/2001219846432

Spots are limited so RSVP now!

10/13/2026

Teachers at Valor seek out the child who sits alone at lunch.

We call each student by name, include each in the community, and let them know they belong. Every quiet act of calling a child by name, making them feel seen and appreciated, and letting them know they belong is a kind of victory.

At Valor, these small, daily affirmations are the heartbeat of our culture. Students are not numbers in a system. They are persons, known and valued.

10/07/2026

Valor Education has been named a Yass Prize Finalist and awarded $500,000. At the award ceremony, Jeff and Janine Yass recognized Valor for its distinctive culture, excellent curriculum, and exceptionally strong demand from families. Valor will use the prize money to accelerate its growth plan, which includes additional seats in Austin as well as a major expansion into Dallas-Ft. Worth.

"Valor stands out for the depth of the educational experience and the extraordinary scale of family demand,” Yass noted in its announcement. “This is not classical education reserved for an elite few, but a tuition-free public-school network with rigorous teacher formation and the ability to create hundreds of new seats while preserving a culture centered on wonder, humility, friendship and human dignity."

The prize was accepted by Stephen Gordon, Valor’s Superintendent of Schools, who thanked Valor’s teachers for their transformative work in shaping the lives of thousands of students.

“Each day, our teachers cultivate a place of learning that is joyful, rigorous, personal, and fueled by wonder,” Mr. Gordon said. “Families keep choosing Valor because they see the difference that comes from teachers who are drawing on a mission and vision rooted in the fundamental dignity of every child.”

Yass Announcement: https://yassprize.org/awardees/valor-education/

10/06/2026

Our 9th–11th grade students brought exceptional elegance and vibrant community spirit to life at The Occursed Castle of Sleeping Beauty Fall Formal. Here is a glimpse into a truly memorable evening of dancing, music, and friendship for our students.

10/06/2026

To be truly great, you have to be good.

Most people equate greatness with how wealthy or powerful you become. But the approach at Valor is different. Small acts of courage, moderation, kindness, humility, and integrity are celebrated every day in Valor’s classrooms and cafeterias. These actions lead to dispositions, and these dispositions foster virtue over time.

By helping them become good, Valor is helping young people reimagine what will make them ultimately happy.

10/01/2026

Valor is now accepting enrollment applications for the 2027–28 school year! Applying now is your best chance to secure your child’s seat at one of our five tuition-free K-12 classical schools in San Antonio, South Austin, North Austin, Kyle, and Leander.

Apply now at valoreducation.org/enroll. It is free and takes five minutes.

All applications received after the January 25 deadline will be added to the waitlist in the order they were submitted.

09/29/2026

The best teachers love their students. They are mentors, guides, and fellow seekers of truth.

At Valor, our faculty spend time getting to know their students because they believe that education is fundamentally relational. A child's education is not shaped most of all by the lessons they learn, but by the people who teach them.

The teacher is the lesson.

09/29/2026

Valor's application period for the 2027–28 school year opens this Thursday, October 1. Applying during this time gives your family the best chance to skip the waitlist and receive an enrollment offer, following our lottery on January 26, 2027.

The application is free, takes less than five minutes, and does not obligate you in any way. Open enrollment closes on January 25, 2027.

09/28/2026

Upper School students recreated a famous painting, "El Jaleo" (1882) by John Singer Sargent depicting a Spanish Romani dancer performing to the accompaniment of musicians. Valor's fine arts program is centered around helping students develop a deep understanding and appreciation for history's best pieces of art and music through imitation.

09/21/2026

At Valor, we believe every child deserves to hear, in a hundred concrete ways throughout the school day, this simple truth: it is good that you exist. Our teachers see each child, know them by name, understand their unique gifts and struggles, and affirm them. What a gift to be seen, known, and loved!

09/15/2026

We had a school before we had a building.

Hundreds of families joined Valor while we were still searching for a space, and when we finally opened, we made our home in an aging office building that had cavernous classrooms and walls that didn’t reach the ceiling.

Families didn’t come to Valor for shiny facilities — though we’ve now been blessed with several phenomenal school buildings. Instead, families chose Valor to nurture wonder, to foster encounters with beauty, to instill virtue, and to recognize the inherent dignity, uniqueness, and mystery of every child. This vision for education is lived out each day for 5,000 students across 5 campuses, stewarded by 500 faculty and staff who themselves are being shaped by this vision and mission.

Right now, Valor’s Superintendent of Schools, Stephen Gordon, is at the Yass Accelerator, sharing Valor’s founding mission and incredible growth story as well as our hopes to bring this transformative education to more children by expanding to new regions.

We’re incredibly grateful to the Yass Prize for recognizing Valor’s approach to education, which is shaping thousands of lives throughout Austin and San Antonio. We’re also grateful to the other 25 Contenders, who have found myriad ways to reach children with new educational opportunities.

On Thursday, Mr. Gordon will give a three-minute pitch to a group of distinguished panelists. The $1 million Yass Prize will be announced on October 6th at the Power of Innovation Summit in Philadelphia. This prize would support Valor in finishing its campus plans in Austin and begin our expansion to Dallas-Ft. Worth, where we can serve thousands more students.

09/11/2026

Join us next Thursday, September 17, for a lecture from Dr. Kevin Gary of Hillsdale College on "Social Media and the Vice of Acedia." This special lecture will be held at 6 PM in the Valor South Austin Library. Please RSVP using the link in the comments to secure your seat!

Acedia is an uncommon word for a common feeling of exhaustion and aimlessness. While social media promises friendship and meaning, it cannot satisfy the person's deep desire for genuine connection and purpose. Only in real relationships with others can we find ourselves back on track. Dr. Gary will explore how we can become more aware of acedia in our own lives, especially in various forms of social media, along with the virtues necessary for proper use of this technology. Ultimately, we will learn to redeem social media, claiming its benefits while steering clear of its harms.

08/28/2026

Valor San Antonio athletes came to win this week! Our cross-country team brought home six individual medals and celebrated our first-ever high school boys competitor, while middle school flag football shut down the field with a dominant 30-8 win over Great Hearts Invictus. Let's go Guardians!

08/21/2026

Valor Education has been named one of 25 Contenders for the 2026 Yass Prize, a $1 million national award that recognizes organizations providing an education that is sustainable, transformational, outstanding, and permissionless. In the coming weeks, Valor will take part in the Yass Accelerator to learn more about strengthening scaling our organization — all while preparing for a pitch competition that will take place in September. The winner will be announced October 6 at the Power of Innovation Summit in Philadelphia.

Valor proposes an education that is rooted in wonder and animated by our natural desire to understand. Valor students read great literature and philosophy, acquire a broad understanding of history, memorize a canon of poetry, sing, act, and paint; they study mathematics, science, government, economics, and Latin; they engage in daily seminars that form them in intellectual and social virtues; they spend time with the weak and vulnerable, and they encounter the beauty of the created world.

None of this is possible without teachers who have themselves been formed. Robert Spaemann observed that "you have to already be someone in order to teach," and we have built our faculty formation and culture around this reality. Every teacher, leader, and staff member at Valor schools regularly receives coaching and mentorship, reads and discusses great texts in seminar, attends academic and intellectual retreats, and spends full days at symposia led by university professors from across the country.

Valor is now educating 5,000 students at five campuses across Austin and San Antonio. We have plans to grow to 10,000 students and expand to new regions because too many children are receiving an education that is impoverished, that has reductive and narrow ends in mind. We seek to serve new families and new children, to greet them, to welcome them, and to remind them: “It is good that you exist.”

08/21/2026

We welcomed excited K-11 students back to campus this past Wednesday to kick off an inspiring new academic year! Teachers and staff greeted families with joy, launching a fantastic week of deep learning and character growth across all grade levels.

08/14/2026

Thank you to our families for making the first week of school a big success! Our schools came alive as we began the 2026–27 school year, filled with courage, joy, and hope. We enter the weekend with hearts full of gratitude and are already looking forward to another week of learning and growing together.

08/09/2026

We look forward to welcoming our students back this coming Wednesday, August 12! We hope each of our Valor families across our five schools enjoyed a restful and restorative summer break. Here at Valor, the summer months have been full of preparations for a transformational school year filled with joy, respect, and deep engagement. We will see you on Wednesday!

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15415 Red Robin Road
San Antonio, TX
78255

Opening Hours

Monday	7:30am - 4pm
Tuesday	7:30am - 4pm
Wednesday	7:30am - 4pm
Thursday	7:30am - 4pm
Friday	7:30am - 4pm

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https://www.valoreducation.org/valorsanantonio

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