The New School in The Heights

Specialties

The Mission of The New School In The Heights is to provide a positive educational experience for children with good or superior intelligence whose social-​emotional delays interfere with success in school and life.

As a special K-​8 school, we serve children with a variety of needs, especially social-​emotional challenges. We are among the top private schools in Houston for helping children with ADHD, OCD, Sensory Integration, selective mutism, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), and other diagnoses. We are also a good choice for learning disabilities, including dyslexia, when the emotional piece compounds the learning disability. Many of our students are gifted and talented and twice exceptional with a diagnosis that interferes with their learning in a traditional classroom setting.

History

Established in 2005.

As a private, special needs school in Houston, Texas, NSH offers a teacher: pupil ratio not to exceed 1:4. Students are instructed according to their academic levels, not an artificial grade designation. Our philosophy is to make learning itself the motivation for succeeding in school, so special classes, such as Robotics, Newspaper and a school wide Math Olympics, are offered. Children who need a safe place from teasing, who are working through adoption issues, are gifted and talented, or who have a variety of diagnoses such as ADHD, Asperger’s, OCD, ODD, Sensory Integration, Separation Anxiety, Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) or Selective Mutism that interfere with their ability to succeed in school and social situations are helped by our unique social-​emotional curriculum. As one of the top schools for learning disabilities, we can help improve dyslexic children’s self-​esteem when it has been compromised by these conditions.