About Khabele

Founded in 2001, the Khabele School is an independent, coeducational day school. With the merger of the Khabele Middle and High School with Primavera Montessori School in 2011, we now serve ages 18 months through 12th grade. The Khabele School provides exceptional academics as well as a well-rounded educational experience, including the study of the arts, music, foreign language, and physical education.

Our South Austin campus for 18-month-olds through Elementary, Primavera Montessori at the Khabele School, has a foundation significantly influenced by Dr. Maria Montessori’s philosophy of education. We are dedicated to a climate that honors the learning styles, temperaments, and multiple intelligences of all children. Incorporated into our philosophy is a commitment to the further development of Peace Education. We desire to create a community supportive of the family that models health, mutual respect, creativity, cooperation, and diversity: a multi-dimensional approach toward the science of peace.

Our Middle School and High School, located in the heart of downtown Austin, integrate traditional, progressive, and 21st century practices and methodologies. We provide a “right-action, right-time” approach, based on a pragmatic response to global trends, as well as to the particular needs of each child and classroom environment. Our long-term objective is to have each and every graduate be proficient in demonstrating these 5 attributes: Well-Being, Environmental and Cultural Awareness, Self-Generated Learning, Self-Expression, and Leadership.

We purposely nurture the community’s contextual elements. These elements include school culture and teacher authenticity, as well as individual contextual elements like character, mental models, and self-concepts. We take care of the spirit and heart of each child by providing preeminent character development, conflict resolution, and mindfulness curricula.