History
In 1997, a team of educators, clinicians, and parents founded The Joy School in Houston to meet the needs of students with learning differences. Its founders included Dr. Jerome Rosner, an optometrist whose 40 years of research involved children with learning differences; and Shara Bumgarner, at the time an elementary public school teacher and now Head of School. When the doors opened in 1997, The Joy School had just four students. Today it educates 129 children from kindergarten through the eighth grade. In 2011, we proudly became the first and only school for children with learning differences in the Greater Houston area to receive accreditation by the Independent School Association of the Southwest. Over the past 15 years, we have touched the lives of over 350 students, most who have mainstreamed or graduated back to traditional school environments.
Specialties
The Joy School is where kids go to rediscover the joy in learning. We teach kids in grades K-8 who have learning differences like dyslexia, dysgraphia, social issues, expressive/receptive language disorders, autism and more.