Wayside Insider: January 2019
Waysiders, Wayside will resume classes tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 23 as regularly scheduled. We ask that all families send bottles of water to school for their scholar’s consumption. Each campus will also have extra safe drinking water available and is accepting donations of purified water during drop-off at the front office of each campus. Due to [...]
This December, Wayside: Altamira Academy (AMA) is getting a space shuttle. Or maybe a castle or pirate ship. Thanks to a special grant from KaBOOM! and funding partner General Motors, scholars at the pre-K to 5th grade elementary school will have a unique opportunity to design the playground of their dreams—and make their vision a [...]
Wayside Schools Community: Today, Wednesday Aug. 15th, 2018, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) publicly released Academic Accountability Ratings for ISDs and Charter Schools statewide. I’d like to be the first to share our ratings with you. While most of our scholars have seen profound improvement and success, we will not be satisfied until that is [...]
Wayside Community, Earlier today, I-35 was closed in both directions between William Cannon and Slaughter due to a car fire. Because of media reports of a suspicious package, we briefly placed our William Cannon Campus on high alert. The William Cannon Campus houses both Wayside: REAL Learning Academy and Wayside: Sci-Tech Middle School. Austin Police [...]
Waysiders, Welcome back! I am so pleased to kick off the 2018-2019 school year with such an amazing group of young minds. I truly believe that this will be our best school year to date, thanks in large part to YOU! New Construction We’ve had an especially busy summer at Wayside. Much of our staff [...]
This month, Wayside: Eden Park Academy kicked off basketball season for the Eagles. Led by Coaches Leland, Welch and Lankford, Eagles Basketball is a coed team made of fifth graders. The team practices twice a week in the Eden Park gym, and primarily plays private schools in the area, along with rival Wayside: REAL Learning [...]