Who We Are

FlexSchool is a community of creative, curious, critical thinkers.

Our small, discussion-based classes ensure meaningful conversations and the opportunity to ask high-level questions. Our faculty, trained and supported by learning specialists and mental health professionals, focus on critical thinking in all areas of learning.

Engaging, strengths-based academics, experiential learning, and talent development programming are infused with the executive functioning support and social-emotional learning that gifted and 2e students thrive on. 

History

FlexSchool was started to save one twelve-year-old girl. Jane loved to learn what she wanted to learn, and spent hours engrossed in videos and web pages about animals. She could tell you about muscle cells and animal anatomy. She researched Native Americans and made all of the games and weapons used by the Lenni-Lenape out of found objects and craft supplies. She spent hours drawing and painting and could write fiction better than most college students.

Yet, she loathed school.

She rarely spoke in class, dropped out of the gifted and talented program, either didn’t do her homework or would forget to turn it in. She had As on the tests and Cs and Ds in the class. Jane’s academic future looked dismal.
 

• Poor grades and high test scores are not a winning combination for college admission.
• Her public school was not the right place for her, but neither were the local private schools.
• Academically-oriented private schools do not accept students with poor grades.
• Schools that accept students with poor grades are not always academically rigorous.

Stalemate.  Until we started FlexSchool. 

Jane spent six years at FlexSchool, where she learned to love learning again. After graduation, she went on to attend a well-known liberal arts college, studying anthropology, linguistics, map-making, and art.

FlexSchool first opened its doors in 2014 to just seven students in shared space. Since then, thanks to the support of our wonderful parents, our incredible faculty, the many professionals who support 2e kids and families beyond the classroom, and most of all, our amazing students themselves – FlexSchool has grown from that tiny founding class to a thriving global learning community of three campuses with students from 23 countries.