Welcome Current Families of Valor South Austin!

If you are considering Valor for your child, please visit our Valor South Austin page for prospective parents.

Athletics

Valor South Austin has a vibrant athletic community for fall, winter, and spring seasons. See schedules, coaching staff, and more at Falcons Athletics.

Report an Absence

Please notify the office through email at attendance.southaustin@valoreducation.org if your child will be absent from school.

Drop-Off and Pick-Up

Review traffic procedures for when, where, and how to pick up and drop off your children.

Family Handbook

Read the Family Handbook for Valor's approaches to grading, attendance, discipline, and many other key topics.

Breakfast and Lunch

Valor offers hot breakfast and lunch provided by Diwa Kitchen Co. View menus, set up meal payments, and apply for Free and Reduced Meals by visiting the Meal Program page.

College Counseling

Valor South Austin is pleased to offer a comprehensive College Counseling program to our high school students. Learn More

Faculty and Staff Directory

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Valor South Austin School Calendar

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After School Program

Watch the development of our new campus here.

OUR PERMANENT HOME

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 Lisa Wellman or visit our Donate page.

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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 South Austin 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 South Austin school community (students, faculty, and leadership) throughout the year.

SERVE WITH THE PSO

PSO Grade-Level Facebook Groups

“…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

From our Headmaster

Headmaster Cowan

Dear friends,

Welcome to Valor South Austin. I want to speak to you about two things that are often misunderstood in education: the heart and the mind.

The life of the mind is vital to our aim here at Valor. We exercise and train our minds, but not merely so that we will do well on tests and get ahead in life. Instead, we believe the life of the mind is an end in itself. When we learn to study a Euclidean proposition or to observe the life of a butterfly, we are engaged in something lofty and freeing, the contemplation of the highest things, the beholding of the mysteries of reality and of nature, the glorious adventure of pursuing the truth. Sapientia per admirationem. This phrase encapsulates the life of the mind: wisdom does begin in wonder.

But perhaps even more importantly, at Valor we seek to bring the heart to be spirited about things that are good and beautiful. We seek to educate not only the mind but the heart, that center of our being, the locus of the will. We look to acclimate the heart to the appreciation of beauty by surrounding our students with great and inspiring art, music, poetry, and literature.

We seek to turn the students’ will to the good by developing a moral intelligence in the literature we read, by having high standards, and by lovingly encouraging them along the way. At Valor, we know not only with our minds but “by heart.”

Pursuing wisdom through wonder and virtue through exposure to beautiful things is not done by isolated individuals but by a community. And a community directed in this way naturally welcomes friendship of the highest order. Friendships developed in our community share the freedom of the mind, the pursuit of wisdom for its own sake, and a heart filled with joy.

Best,