The Rainard School

Rainard School for Gifted Students is a private school located in Houston, Texas, United States serving children 4 1/2 years through 12th grade who are identified as academically gifted.

The Rainard School is located outside of Beltway 8 and north of Interstate 10 in an outerlying portion of western Houston.

History

Rainard opened in 1986. It was founded by Dr. Lorraine Bouchard. Dr. Bouchard left the school in 2008, and is no longer involved with the school.

The school has a unique thematic curriculum for the lower school, with a different overarching theme on a three year rotation. For 2008-2009, the theme is "Freedom." Classes are multi-age, multi-level, with a given classroom spanning three to four traditional grade levels. The school has a target of a 12 to 1 student to teacher ratio. As of 2008, the school's total enrollment is approximately 70 students.

After 19 years at its former location at 13922 Old Katy Road [http://web.archive.org/web/20010217031408/http://www.rainard.org/] , The Rainard School moved to a new campus at 11059 Timberline [http://www.rainard.org/cgi-bin/site.cgi?p=Campus.html&t=5] in fall 2005; the address formerly housed The Parish School.

The current Head of School is Judy Banta. Meredith Hester directs the High School.

External links

* [http://www.rainard.org/ The Rainard School]