Families who want a full-time outdoor school
This is meant to be the school day, not an afternoon club. If you have been looking for a place where children spend ordinary weekdays on the land, this is the idea.
Texas Old Town · Kyle, Texas
A small wilderness school, just getting started.
Wilderness Academy is a new, full-time outdoor school for children, opening at Texas Old Town. We are now enrolling the founding class.
Ask about the founding classOpen to all children · Limited spots
Time on the land.
A first small group.
The shape of the day
A day at Wilderness Academy
Days follow a steady outdoor rhythm. The exact order may shift with weather, the season, and what the group is working on, but the pattern stays familiar.
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Morning
Arrive and gather
Children arrive, settle in, and start together. We look at the day ahead, notice the weather, and get ready to be outside.
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Late morning
Explore the land
The group walks, plays, and pays attention to plants, wildlife, water, and the ground underfoot. Curiosity leads a good share of the work.
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Midday
Skills and a shared meal
Hands-on practice comes next: fire safety, simple shelters, navigation, tool use, and other practical outdoor work, taught carefully and at a pace that fits the group. Students bring lunch, and we eat together.
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Afternoon
Projects, rest, and more time outside
The afternoon may hold a longer project, quiet time, games, or another stretch of exploration before we close the day as a group and head home.
We intend to spend as much of the day outdoors as we safely can. When weather makes that unwise, we adjust the plan and stay in touch with families.
How we think about school
Learn by doing real things, in a real place.
Wilderness Academy is a school, not a weekly add-on and not a wilderness therapy program. Children spend their days outside, with enough structure to feel steady and enough room to get genuinely good at useful work.
We care about attention, kindness, physical capability, and a lasting relationship with the land. Confidence comes from practice: solving a problem, finishing a task, and being trusted with real responsibility in a small group.
The school is coeducational and open to all children. We keep the group small on purpose, so each student can be known well.
A good fit
Who it’s for
Children who learn by moving and making
Some students come alive when the work is physical, practical, and outdoors. We plan the day so that kind of learning is the rule, not a reward at the end.
A first group, not a crowd
Because we are new, the first year will be small. That is a feature. We would rather know each child well than fill every seat.
We have not posted ages or tuition here yet. If you are interested, get in touch and we will talk honestly about whether this is a good fit for your child.
Now enrolling
The founding class
Wilderness Academy is brand new. We are now enrolling the founding class — a limited first group of students who will help set the tone of the school.
Spots are limited because we intend to stay small. There is no waitlist to join and no promised number of seats. If you want to be part of the first year, the next step is a conversation.
Talk with us about a spotWhere we are
Texas Old Town, Kyle, Texas
The school is at Texas Old Town in Kyle, a short drive south of Austin in the Hill Country. It is a real outdoor setting close enough for a daily commute from Austin and the nearby towns.
We will share arrival, parking, and pickup details with families as enrollment moves forward. If you would like to visit or ask about the site, reach out during our contact hours.
Let’s talk
Get in touch
Call, text, or email — whichever is easiest. You can also send a note with the form. We answer Monday through Saturday, 9 AM to 6 PM.
Monday–Saturday, 9 AM – 6 PM