Don’t leave your child’s formation to chance
Many schools feel chaotic, unfocused, and out of step with what you teach at home. Without a learning culture that elevates virtue and critical thinking, students can drift—missing the delight of discovery, the discipline of study, and the confidence to lead.
Students deserve a timeless education that prepares their minds for the challenges of the future.
Why Families like Yours Choose Great Hearts
Our academies are full of parents and educators who went searching for deeper education for our own children—and found it in the classical tradition.
Great Hearts Academies has grown over two decades into the largest and highest-performing classical school network in the country, with Great Hearts Texas serving nearly 14,000 students from families across San Antonio, Arlington, Fort Worth, and Irving through public charter academies and Great Hearts Online Texas.
Your 3-Step Plan to Apply
2. Receive an Offer or Waitlist
We’ll keep you informed at every step.
3. Start your Great Hearts Journey!
And join our community of parents & passionate educators.
Enrollment is Open for 2026-2027
Enrollment for the 2026-2027 school year opens in November 2025, with Open Enrollment continuing through January. Families who have applied during Open Enrollment will be included in the Lottery Day, when some students will begin to receive either waitlist numbers or enrollment offers for the next school year.
We want to serve the family, to cultivate virtue, and to lead the way in public education.
You are your child’s first and primary educator. Our role is to come alongside you—cultivating virtue (the original aim of classical education) and forming habits of attention, courage, and friendship. As one of Texas’s highest-rated charter networks, we provide the structure, teachers, and curriculum; you provide the vision for your family. Together, we raise scholars with character.
What Your Child’s Day Will Feel Like
Our students leave their cell phones behind during the day so they can engage in reflection and conversation. We think carefully about when screens are presented so scholars can engage one another face to face first, recognizing the inherent value of the human beings in front of them. More and more colleges and employers today want graduates and employees who can see the big picture; who can listen, write, and speak well; and who have strong character.
That’s what makes classical education time-tested and built for the future.
While some graduates struggle to write clearly, reason carefully, or engage respectfully, Great Hearts scholars practice these habits daily—so they’re ready for advanced study, civic life, and real-world responsibility.
Senior Class of 2025 by the Numbers
$15,018,544 Total Scholarships
Why Classical Education?
In a noisy, digital world, you want your child to tell truth from trend. Classical education forms wisdom—through wonder, full texts, and practice in every subject, including honors level math and science.
An education for the 21st century must give students the ability to develop a keen eye and ear for what’s true and what matters. We could call this critical thinking, but when aligned to the search for truth, the ancients called this form of knowing wisdom.
Socrates said, “Wisdom begins in wonder.” At Great Hearts Texas, we use the Socratic method to unleash our students’ sense of wonder, while simultaneously developing their capacity for deep reflection, problem-solving, and a taste for the true, the good and the beautiful. They contemplate: How does this area of knowledge relate to our well-being? To justice? The common good? How do the means relate to the end?
This form of study is not reserved just for the humanities but also applies to math and science. By first becoming captured by the beauty of mathematics, for instance, students find the eventual application of the subject all the more profound.
Choose Your Next Step
Interested Families Please Contact:
The Enrollment Team
Juanita Morin
Enrollment Specialist
Email: Juanita.Morin@greatheartstxschools.org
Ora Linville
San Antonio Enrollment Specialist
Email: ora.linville@greatheartstxschools.org
Camryn Buss
North Texas Enrollment Specialist
Email: Camryn.Buss@greatheartstxschools.org
Enrollment FAQ + Timeline
No, there is no tuition at any of our Great Hearts Texas academies. As a public Charter school system in Texas, the state provides a majority of our funding based on enrollment and attendance.
Yes, financial assistance is available for those who qualify. This may include free or reduced-price meals, help with uniforms, and support for after-school and athletic programs.
Enrollment offers are difficult to predict from campus to campus once classes are full. Our registrars make enrollment offers as seats open up due to student withdrawals. While seats often become available before the start of school, there’s no way to guarantee when or how many will open up in each grade.
Yes, your waitlist number can change. The waitlist is organized by application type and priority status. When a current student withdraws, our registrars offer the open seat to the next student on the list. If you are on the waitlist, your number will change according to the Enrollment of students with lower waitlist numbers.
If your child does not receive an offer for the 2026-2027 school year, you will need to reapply during the Open Enrollment period for the 2027-2028 school year. This year’s waitlist numbers are only valid for the 2026-2027 school year.
If one child is enrolled, their siblings are given priority on the waitlist but are not assured Enrollment. Sibling priority increases the chances of getting a seat, but there are no guarantees.
No; we follow state guidelines, which require that a child be five years old before September 1st of the year they enroll in Kindergarten. We do not make exceptions or offer early entrance testing for Kindergarten.
