The Admissions Process for the 2026/27 school year is underway!
October 1, 2025
In Spring 2025, following the passage of Texas’s groundbreaking Education Savings Account Program, members of the Yass Prize community signaled their interest in expanding award-winning school models across the state, ensuring families could access a wide variety of life-changing educational opportunities.
To support this vision, the Texas Education Freedom Award was created in alignment with the Yass Prize mission to find, reward, celebrate, and expand education providers who STOP for students. After a rigorous review process, and at a special event held in partnership with the University of Austin (UATX), select Yass Prize alumni were awarded funding to position them to launch or expand innovative school models in 2026—meeting the needs of even more Texas students.
Read More via the National Press Release Texas Award For Education Freedom.
At RISE Hybrid Private Academy, our field trips are anything but ordinary. We believe learning should go beyond the classroom-and even beyond the country.
We can’t wait to see all that you’ll accomplish in this exciting new chapter — we’re cheering you on, Nahshon!
Congratulations to Haylee! We’re so proud to share that Haylee has been accepted to the University of Maryland, College Park, where she will be pursuing a degree in Kinesiology with a minor in Business Administration.
Zimria is a proud graduate of RISE Hybrid Class of 2022 and now Virginia Tech, where she completed her degree in just three years.
Maya graduated with honors this May 2025 with a BS Degree in Cellular, Molecular, and Physiological Biology from Christopher Newport University.
Kristopher graduated with honors this May 2025 with a degree in Biology from the University of Virginia and is in the process of applying to Dental Schools.
