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Welcome Current Families of Valor Leander!

Family Resources

Documents, links, and tools to help your family thrive at Valor Leander

School Portals & Communications

SchoolAxis Parent Portal
Access the SchoolAxis Parent Portal to manage enrollment, update family information, view important school records, and access your carline QR code.
Jupiter Ed Portal Account Login
Log in to Jupiter to view grades, assignments, attendance, and communicate with your scholar's teachers.
DailySpread Lunch Portal Setup
Access school dining management parameters to finalize choices and maintain campus balances.
Parent-Faculty Communication Guidelines
Review the Valor Leander Parent Communication Guidelines to understand how to best connect with faculty, staff, and school leadership.
Jupiter Ed Alert Configuration:

To ensure you receive urgent school updates, use the walkthrough guide below to activate text and email alerts:
1. Log in to your active Jupiter portal account.
2. Click the three horizontal lines menu icon located in the top-left corner.
3. Select Settings from the left navigation choices.
4. Navigate directly to the Notifications tab view parameters.
5. Verify that checkmarks are active for both the Emergency alerts and Messages checkboxes across Web, Email, and Text columns.
Download Visual Step-by-Step Guide (PDF)

Academic Handbooks & Guidance

2026-27 School Supply Lists
View the complete school supply list for Valor Leander scholars for the 2026-27 school year.

Note: EduKit orders have been closed for the 2026-27 school year; items must be purchased independently.
Lower & Upper School Reading Lists
Browse the reading lists for both Lower and Upper School scholars, complete with ISBNs for easy ordering.

Note: This is the 2026-2027 updated list.
Uniform Guidelines
A quick summary of our Uniform Guidelines. To review the full policy, please refer to the Family Handbook.
2026 – 27 Valor Leander Family Handbook
The essential guide for Valor Leander families – covering school policies, expectations, and community standards for the school year.
Spalding Resources
Support your scholar's phonics and literacy development at home with these official Spalding resources via the Phonograms Web App.
Singapore Math Online Sample Pages
Browse free sample pages from Singapore Math curriculum to preview lessons and support your scholar's math practice at home.
Yellow Folder Communication Logs
Review greater insight into your child's daily school day behavior and engagement markers.
Daily Scoring Parameters:
- Marked with a "3" — Met Expectations: Student worked well, participated actively, and met all classroom expectations.
- Marked with a "2" — Minor Struggles: Challenges maintaining focus, following directions, or instances of disruptive talking.
- Marked with a "1" — Significant Incident: Serious situation accompanied by a formal written note or formal referral through Jupiter.
Note: This tracking tool is for Grades K–3 ONLY.

Campus Schedules & Routines

Crystal Falls Carline Procedures
Guidelines for a safe and respectful carline experience at the Crystal Falls campus.
Crystal Falls Afternoon Carline Pick-Up Windows
View the designated lane layouts and time windows for both Standard and Early Release dismissal schedules at the Crystal Falls campus.
Kauffman Loop Carline Procedures
Guidelines for a safe and respectful carline experience at the Kauffman Loop campus.
Valor Leander School Calendar
This is the official calendar for Valor Leander for the 2026-27 school year outlining holidays and closures.
Valor Leander Schedule & Times
This schedule outlines the daily start, end, drop-off, and pick-up times for Valor Leander campuses.
Valor Leander Upper School Bell Schedule
This schedule outlines the 26-27 Upper School Bell Schedule..
2026-27 Upper School Tutoring Schedule
View the official morning tutoring schedule (7:40 AM – 8:00 AM) for upper school.
2026-27 Fall Clubs Schedule
Browse extracurricular club offerings, schedules, grade levels, leaders, and meeting locations across campuses.
Absence Reporting & Early Checkout Procedure

When your scholar will be absent or needs an early checkout, please follow the required action steps below:
Required Reporting Steps:
1. Email Attendance Office: Send a formal notice directly to Attendance.leander@valoreducation.org to record the checkout or absence.
2. Message Faculty via Jupiter: Send an immediate message to your scholar's direct teacher inside the Jupiter Ed Portal.

Faculty and Staff Directory

VIEW DIRECTORY

Valor Leander Calendar

You can download our 2026–2027 Student Calendar printable version here:

VIEW 26-27 CALENDAR

“…with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness leading on to more wonderful questions and mysteries—certainly a grand adventure!”
– Richard Feynman

Dear Families,

The beginning of any great story includes a certain sense of mystery—a mystery which includes particular truths which are already known (and known with certainty!) and others which are yet to be discovered. In these founding moments of our new community of friends at Valor Leander, there is indeed a sense of journeying into the mystery.

One thing we know with certainty is that the “world is so full of a number of things; I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings” (Robert Louis Stevenson). At Valor Leander we will revel in the beauty of our world so full of these things—things which are marvelous, beautiful, and good. We will experience the thrill of discovering the sounds of letters, the meaning of new words, and the beauty of composed sentences. We will sit at the feet of the greatest thinkers in the tradition to learn from their wisdom.

We will look through the windows of great literature to marvel at the depths of human experience. We will delight in careful observations of the complexity of nature and find beautiful patterns in the ordered language of mathematics. We will strive together after greatness in athletic competition.

We will learn to make a gift of ourselves and forge new relationships with people with differing backgrounds, ages, and circumstances in the Human Encounter program. We will learn to rest and contemplate in the silence of the Utah wilderness on our wilderness expeditions. And we will do all of this together—building a community where deep friendships will be born of shared loves discovered together. And this will be very good!

But there is much also which is unknown, and likely to be difficult! The Valor vision for education draws us daily further up and further in as we pursue wisdom and virtue. This is a grand adventure which will demand much of us as faculty, parents, students, and friends. As we together respond to this call, things will not be comfortable or easy, but things of the greatest worth rarely are.

I hope you will choose to join us as we seek to deepen our encounter with this mystery together and build a community where all can learn to be more truly free and fully alive.

Gratefully,

Christopher Ochoa

Headmaster, Valor Leander

At Valor Leander, athletic programs are central to our vision of educating the whole person. We believe that healthy athletic competition ennobles the human spirit and helps our student-athletes develop lifelong virtues such as courage, sportsmanship, and perseverance. In this section, you can find helpful resources and the channels to follow our journey as we compete, grow in friendship, and commit ourselves to the team's common good.

GRIFFIN ATHLETICS

Helpful Resources:

Athletic Registration & Handbooks

Valor Athletics 26-27 Handbook
The athletics handbook provides parents and student athletes with important expectations, guidelines, and policies for Valor sports. We ask our parents to review the entire handbook with their student athletes.
Arbiter Sports Registration
Access the online athlete portal to register and sign registration paperwork, and upload current medical physical eligibility forms.

Note: Registrations are closed for the season.
SportsYou Communication Login
SportsYou is our official communication app. Once your online registration is fully complete and approved, an invitation to join your athlete's specific sports team will be sent to you. Make sure you join as this will always be our primary communication channel for any schedule or last-minute weather updates.

Schedules & Volunteering

Athletic Service Organization Volunteering
Sign up for parent volunteer positions including game-day tickets, scoreboard operations, line judging, and team banquet coordination.
Hudl Fan Team Schedules
View calendar views, upcoming match times, game locations, and streaming highlights for our athletic teams.
MaxPreps Varsity Schedules & Stats
Specifically for our Varsity team sports, access highly detailed game schedules, team standings, win/loss records, and player-level performance statistics.

Note: Always refer directly to SportsYou for definitive, final schedule changes and weather delays throughout the season.

Athletic Shops

At-School Spirit Shop
The online destination you go to for our annual spirit wear. Save on shipping fees; we send orders home through school. Items include our annual spirit shirt, spirit socks, griffin stickers, and embroidered hats.
At-Home Spirit Shop
More spirit gear, more choices. Order custom athletic items that ship directly to your home in 1–3 days, including sports shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, water bottles, tumblers, jackets, and athletic wear.

Note: All practice attire for students must follow the modest, loose-fitting dress standards outlined in the handbook.

Welcome to the Valor Leander PSO!

Valor's PSO exists to help foster friendship and build community among Valor families through service to our faculty, school, and scholars. Through our shared efforts, we seek to reflect the heart of Valor Leander — building a school culture where families are connected, service is joyful, and every student is surrounded by care and encouragement.

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Valor Leander PSO Facebook Groups

The VL-endorsed Facebook groups and pages listed below are intended primarily for community building. VL families should expect official school updates via the Parent Newsletter, Jupiter, or emails. In the spirit of the Valor Way Life Value #8, “We communicate with openness, honesty, and goodwill,” we invite parents with questions or concerns to reach out directly by contacting your student’s teacher or email us at info.leander@valoreducation.org.

Please note: the Facebook groups listed above are endorsed by the Valor Leander Faculty, Staff, and Parent Service Organization (PSO).
Any other Facebook pages or groups are considered “unofficial” (not an official resource for school information).

Family Giving

Did you know Valor depends on the generosity of our families? There is a gap of over $2,000 per student per year between what Valor receives in public funding and what it costs to provide tuition-free classical education. Please consider how you can participate in bridging this gap. For more information, contact our Giving Coordinator, Valin Wells or visit our Donate page.

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Crystal Falls Location

Kindergarten through 2nd Grades
906 Crystal Falls Parkway
Leander, TX 78641

Kauffman Loop Location

3rd Grade through 11th Grade
168 Kauffman Loop
Leander, TX 78641

Office Hours: M-F, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

(512) 729-0159
Info.Leander@valoreducation.org

Kauffman Loop Campus

Our Permanent Home

Valor Leander is proudly operating across two locations to serve our students. Our Crystal Falls Campus (906 Crystal Falls Parkway) hosts our younger students (K-2), while our newly operating Kauffman Loop Campus (168 Kauffman Loop) serves our older grade levels (3-11). We are operating out of both locations while actively securing the philanthropic support and capital campaign funding needed to complete construction of our complete, definitive K-12 campus at the Kauffman Loop site.