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Starting in September 2009, The Speyer Legacy School will offer a unique educational program for developmentally precocious children in kindergarten through eighth grade. The curriculum and the pedagogy at The Speyer Legacy School is inspired by the research and teaching methods of Leta Stetter Hollingworth. It is based on an approach to teaching precocious children that has been developed in collaboration with a group of highly qualified teachers, consultants, and school administrators, who have dedicated their careers to education of these children with unique needs. Hollingworth believed that developmentally precocious children benefit from being educated with their intellectual peers, and that they have special needs that may not be met in a traditional classroom setting.

At The Speyer Legacy School, children will experience a stimulating yet warm environment that encourages and challenges them at every step. Parents will find a developmentally and academically appropriate educational community that engages all of its members in positive social, emotional, and intellectual growth. We do not believe that there will ever be one school that can meet all of the needs of a precocious child, but The Speyer Legacy School will blur the lines between school and home, and strive to build a learning community that will provide the best possible educational foundation and support network for the special needs of these children.

You may ask what it is that really differentiates our school from other institutions you may be considering for your child. While it is difficult to address this question briefly, our answer begins with the fact that precocious children acquire knowledge and master concepts at a much faster pace than other children their age. With an accelerated and enriched curriculum, students in The Speyer Legacy School will be given the gift of the time and opportunity to cultivate a range of higher level cognitive skills.