• Fly with your strengths, get support for your challenges

    Ability-Based Classes

  • Celebrate Your Curiosity

    Inquiry-based Learning

  • Find Friends Who Accept You As You Are

    Welcoming Student Body

  • Learn within a World-Wide Community

    Live Online Discussion-Based Classes

  • Explore Community, Arts, Machines, and Nature

    Experiential Learning
FlexSchool is a private middle and high school that specializes in motivating and supporting gifted and twice-exceptional (2e) students. We individualize our coursework to accelerate when possible and decelerate when necessary, always celebrating strengths and meeting students where they are.

Our Campuses

Online, our "Cloud Campus" offers live, ability-based classes designed around discussion and experiential learning. When needed, integrated support for executive functioning skills, learning challenges, anxiety, advanced social pragmatics, and writing. Students are welcome to enroll in FlexSchool full- or part-time.

In person, our NJ and NY campuses are intentionally located in the heart of the communities we serve, offering convenient transportation access and proximity to local events, activities, and resources.

Why Choose FlexSchool?

Many highly creative, eager gifted students struggle to thrive in school. Some lose their confidence, their sense of purpose and finally their will to try. Twice-exceptional students experience similar challenges. Whether they are impacted by a specific learning disability, poor executive functioning, slow processing speed, ASD, anxiety, or even intense stubbornness to “do things their way,” they are stuck.

Whether online or on campus, our unique approach of ability and discussion-based classes, small class size, and social and emotional support allows students to take risks and thrive in ways they haven’t been able to in their previous school environments. In addition, attending a school with students like themselves provides a space for students to find friends, practice social skills with a forgiving student body, and learn to appreciate and accept the quirks of others.

The FlexSchool Story

Testimonials

  • FlexSchool Parent

    "FlexSchool has been a blessing. It’s tough seeing your child miserable every day when you drop him off at school. Now he’s happy to say goodbye and get out of the car!"

  • 12th Grade Student

    “These are the teachers I will remember for the rest of my life.”

  • 9th Grade Student

    "The teachers can be like best friends. I love them and I finally like math and I thought that was impossible!"

  • FlexSchool Parent

    "We want to thank every member of the FlexSchool family for their constant belief in the mission and for their caring and supportive attitudes that allow our children to flourish.  What a gem of a place we discovered!"

  • FlexSchool Parent

    "I haven’t seen this smile since kindergarten."

  • FlexSchool Parent

    I cannot thank you enough for the transformation I see in my daughter! This past weekend I saw a child I hadn’t seen in years. On Saturday she agreed to go with me to Costco:-) we had fun shopping and then we went to eat at a Thai that she had never agreed to before. And she enjoyed it. She was not chained to her electronics we had fun together and even did a beautiful art project. 

    I am finding my daughter again and you, at FlexSchool, made it possible. 

  • FlexSchool Student

    "Thank you so much. This is the first year I haven’t despised school."

  • FlexSchool Student

    "FlexSchool is a place of awesomeness."

  • FlexSchool Student

    I give my experience a  "99 and 3/4 out of 100”.

  • Middle School Parent

    "My daughter already feels like part of a team. She can’t stop talking about FlexSchool and how cool the teachers are. She loved the spy museum and has shared some interesting facts with me. This morning she woke up at the crack of dawn and begged me to help her prepare. I could cry I am so happy to see this."

  • Parent of 10th Grade Student

    "I am amazed at the preparation, dedication, patience, and above all humor, of FlexSchool teachers."

  • Parent of 5th Grade Student

    My son just came bounding up the stairs, did a lap around the living room and called out  "She helped me finish my work. This school is so KIND!"

  • Parent of 5th Grade Student

    My son called me (unprompted) on my cell phone at work at 10:55 to report excitedly that:
    • He had done the required two math problems the said there was an optional third that he wasn’t choosing to do)
    • That he had gotten some right. And that even though he had made some mistakes he had, in his words, “stuck with it.”
    • And also that he was going to “blow my mind“ by reporting that “math was fun.”
    So thank you all for this auspicious new beginning. He shared with me and I wanted you all to hear it as well. I wanted to let you know that he seemed very happy and proud of himself.

  • Parent of 7th Grade Student

    "Our child is gifted, twice exceptional and simply wired differently than most kids. Their growth in all areas and satisfaction in their learning has surpassed all of our dreams for what was possible for our child in these challenging middle school years. With social-emotional support, individualized learning and small, discussion-focused classes, our child is thriving at FlexSchool, which they started in the middle of their 7th grade year at a time of psychiatric crisis. They now freely expresses their insatiable intellectual curiosity, participates joyfully in the life of the community and is consistently met by teachers and students alike. Flex pivoted seamlessly by creating a truly exceptional online program during quarantine, engaging them Monday-Friday 8-3 pm. We are deeply grateful to Founder Jacqui Byrne and Bronxville Director Lynne Henwood for their dedication to the 2E mission and to the Flex families. They are so much more than school directors. They are social change agents and thought leaders, having created a place for 2E kids to thrive. Ben Newman: I can't agree enough. FlexSchool welcomed our child and our family to join their learning community, providing us a lifeline from challenge to opportunity for growth and transformation. They opened our eyes to who our child is and the potential for who they can become with the proper learning environment. I highly recommend the school to anyone, and especially those who 'march to the beat of a different drummer.' I wish that I had had a school like this when I was their age!"

Upcoming Events

List of 6 events.

  • Oct
    3

    Parent Workshop: Trying to Fill the Black Hole: How to Parent Gifted Children

    Dr. Matthew Zakreski kicks off FlexSchool's monthly Parent Workshop speaker series with a talk on “Trying to Fill the Black Hole: How to Parent Gifted Children” live via Zoom on Oct. 3 at 12 p.m. ET.

    Matthew “Dr. Matt” Zakreski, PsyD is a high-energy, creative clinical psychologist who utilizes an eclectic approach to meet the specific needs of his neurodivergent clients. He is proud to serve the Gifted community as a consultant, professor, author, researcher, and co-founder of The Neurodiversity Collective. 
  • Oct
    6

    Professional Development Day - School Closed

    Professional Development - no classes.
  • Oct
    9

    Indigenous Peoples Day Observed

    FlexSchool is closed for the Indigenous Peoples Day holiday.
  • Oct
    17

    ACT Testing

    ACT testing on-site at Berkeley Heights and Bronxville
  • Oct
    26

    Parent-Teacher Conferences

    Parent-Teacher Conferences: This is a virtual day!

    Thursday October 26: condensed class schedule in the morning online, followed by online conferences in the afternoon.

    Friday October 27: no classes.

  • Nov
    22

    Thanksgiving Break

    Thanksgiving Break - no classes.
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Berkeley Heights, NJ Campus

Bronxville, NY Campus

Cloud Campus

34 Russo Place, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
Phone (914) 704-3337
admissions@flexschool.net