Valor Leander
Welcome to Valor Leander!
If you are considering Valor for your child, please visit our Valor Leander page for prospective parents.
Student Calendar
Reference the Student Calendar via paper or web version for the latest school updates.
Catered Lunch Program
Valor Leander offers hot lunch catered by Daily Spread.
To order your child’s lunches, please visit the School Lunch Choice site. Download the May Menu to view daily offerings.
Family Handbook
Read the Valor Leander 2023-2024 Family Handbook for Valor's approaches to grading, attendance, discipline, uniform policy, and many other key topics.
Athletics
Valor Leander has a vibrant athletic community for fall, winter, and spring seasons. See schedules, coaching staff, and more at Griffins Athletics.
Free and Reduced Meal Program
We encourage all families to submit an application for free or reduced-price meals to the school office. Families who qualify for free or reduced meals also receive discounts on uniforms, school supplies, the after-school program, and athletics.
You may complete the application as many times as you would like during the year to see if you qualify.
Absence or Early Checkout
Please notify the attendance office at attendance.leander@valoreducation.org along with your student’s teacher via Jupiter anytime your student is out.
Quick Links
Upcoming Valor Leander Events
Faculty and Staff Directory
Valor Leander opened their doors to students on August 16th at 906 Crystal Falls Parkway in Leander and plans to continue serving students in the rented facility until the funds can be raised to construct a permanent facility. Valor is in the process of securing the philanthropy needed to move forward with construction with the hope of welcoming students to the permanent location in Fall 2025. However the timeline of the project and opening of the campus will largely depend upon the success of a capital campaign. The location of the permanent campus is near the intersection of Ronald Reagan Boulevard and Highway 29, or more specifically at the intersection of County Road 267 and Kauffman Loop.
Parent Service Organization (PSO)
A Culture of Contribution
Valor's PSO exists to help foster friendship and build community among Valor families.
Mission: To assist Valor Leander in creating the highest quality classical charter school, educating the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life.
Purpose: To provide parents and guardians with a variety of ways to serve and support the Valor Leander school community (students, faculty, and leadership) throughout the year.
“…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
Family Giving
Did you know Valor depends on the generosity of our families? There is a gap of over $1,500 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 Jenny Hernandez or visit our Donate page.
From the Headmaster
Headmaster Ochoa
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,
Chris Ochoa
Headmaster, Valor Leander
School Location
906 Crystal Falls Parkway
Leander, TX 78641
(512) 729-0159
Info.Leander@valoreducation.org
Office Hours: M-F, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.