Gifted Education.
Reimagined.

Process over product. Empathy and analysis over memorized facts. These are what we emphasize at Speyer. When we meet gifted students where they are academically and then challenge them to think differently and even deeper about concepts, their minds begin to soar. Speyer’s learning environment is not just rigor. It’s optimal challenge buoyed by the joy of endless opportunity.

The word most often heard at Speyer is “Why?” Our students ask in-depth questions. They are never satisfied with simple tasks and simple answers. That is why Speyer’s faculty are as extraordinary as their students. They have to be — and are empowered to match their students’ endless enthusiasm for knowledge with a unique and exciting curriculum. The environment is collaborative, engaging, and joyful.

In every Speyer classroom, you will see our students challenged by innovative and differentiated instruction led by teachers who model traits such as confidence, flexibility, resilience, humor, and appropriate risk-taking — all of which cultivate critical and analytical thinking skills as well as work habits associated with lifelong achievement and success.

Speyer is a place where being smart is embraced. Surrounded with peers who are just as curious, where they are buoyed by each other’s passions, a student’s question leads to more from their classmates. All the while, they are supported by faculty who provide and support the academic challenges of our accelerated curriculum. This is the environment in which gifted learners thrive.

Speyer’s intentional K-8 model means our students leave us and enter high school confident in not only their academic abilities but also in who they are as people. Trinity. Stuyvesant. Dalton. Exeter. Bronx Science. Horace Mann. Brearley. These are just a few of the outstanding high schools Speyer alumni attend.