Tesseract School
Tesseract School was a private independent day school in Phoenix, Arizona. The school educated children aged 2 years old up to 8th graders and was located in Paradise Valley.
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| Type | Private |
| Closed | May 2017 |
| Number of students | 0 |
| Mascot | Tigers |
| Website | Tesseract School |
History
The school was founded in 1988. It became a not-for-profit organization in 2001. Tesseract ceased operations on May 31, 2017.
Programs
Tesseract School aimed to encourage independent thinking by its students. Tesseract's mission was to each child to realize their individual potential. They offered all the resources to cater to each child’s passion, be it academic excellence, performing arts, music, visual art, math, science, humanities, languages, service learning, etc. Whatever their passion, they will embrace it and Tesseract would provide them with the skills, values, attitudes, and knowledge to develop a love of learning and be fulfilled and successful in life. By providing a warm, collaborative, accepting, safe and respectful community, they provided each student with the environment to thrive and develop into a confident, self-assured individual. Tesseract offered the opportunity for students to embrace learning through hands-on thematic project based learning. They taught students to understand and synthesize information through critical thinking and analysis and then present on their findings instead of learning by rote and regurgitating to a test. They helped their students find their own paths of passion and use many different teaching methodologies in order to do this. They believed that each child is unique and learns in a unique way, but by bringing these unique individuals together and guiding them to work collaboratively they taught them vital skills that will sustain them for lifelong success. Children who attended Tesseract School were exposed to a variety of programs, including music, art studio, drama, chorus, band, robotics, technical theater, writing skills/writer's workshop, library and physical education. Spanish was taught to every student starting with the school's early childhood development program.
Closure
Tesseract School closed its high school in 2015 due to financial mismanagement. An inexperienced Board with little to no education background attempted to run every aspect of the school, which further resulted in its demise. Discounted tuition, the giving away of scholarships, and high account receivables from many parents who did not pay their child's tuition greatly contributed to its financial distress and ultimate closure. The Board was notified multiple times of the dire financial situation and given sound advice for course corrections, but the Board continued on its destructive path. Selling of the Shea High School and DoubleTree Lower School properties were necessary to keep the school solvent and pay its bills. Tesseract ceased operations on May 31, 2017.