Original Research by School Decision on Celebrate Dyslexia Schools
Celebrate Dyslexia Schools is a brand-new public charter district in San Antonio, approved by the Texas State Board of Education and opened in fall of last year. It is the first school in the region built from the ground up with a single, specialized mission: to serve students with dyslexia using a distinctive instructional model grounded in structured literacy and embedded therapy.
The school currently serves kindergarten through second grade and plans to expand by one grade level each year. Families considering this option should understand that the design is intentionally time-limited. Students are expected to transition to their neighborhood public or charter school by eighth grade, once they have completed intensive dyslexia intervention. This is not a path through graduation; it is a remedial placement with an explicit exit goal.
What sets the school apart operationally is its core pedagogy. Every teacher on campus is trained and certified as an Academic Language Therapist. Rather than pulling students out of class for separate speech or reading intervention, dyslexia therapy is woven into daily instruction across all content areas. Teachers deliver reading, math, science, and other subjects through the lens of structured literacy and language therapy. Publicly reported statements from school leaders emphasize this as the defining feature that differentiates the school from traditional schools where therapy happens in isolation or takes the place of another class.
The school is tuition-free and operates as an open-enrollment charter, meaning any family in the area can apply regardless of zip code. It is co-located at The DoSeum, a children's museum in San Antonio, giving the school an integrated, hands-on learning environment.
Enrollment data, state assessment results, demographic breakdowns, graduation rates, and per-pupil spending information were not available for this district, which is typical for a school in its inaugural year of operation. The school is too new to have produced state testing data or multi-year trend data. The comparison metrics used for other Bexar County districts are not applicable to Celebrate Dyslexia Schools for this reason.
Families evaluating this option are likely doing so because a child has been identified with dyslexia or suspected dyslexia, or because they prefer the structured-literacy approach to reading instruction. The school is an alternative pathway within the San Antonio charter and district ecosystem, not a general-enrollment school. A parent interested in learning more would want to contact the school directly about the application process, the specific dyslexia screening and identification criteria used for admission, and the planned timeline for grade expansion.
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