What historical cookbooks can teach students
By Keystone School Every historical cookbook contains two stories. The first is the recipe itself — the ingredients, the techniques, the dishes a culture considered worth preserving in writing. The second is subtler: who the author assumed was reading, what they thought that reader already knew, and what that reveals about the world the book […]
A Keystone 9th Grader Is Ranked #1 in the United States in Fencing
By Keystone School Gene is a freshman at Keystone School. He is also the top-ranked Y-14 Men’s Epee fencer in the United States. Last weekend in Fort Worth, Gene won gold in his division at a national points tournament, earning the maximum points needed to secure the number one national ranking. He also took gold […]
How Keystone taught September 11 in different grade levels
By Keystone School Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the event occupies an unusual place in the curriculum. For students in school today, it is history — something that happened before they were born, documented in textbooks and documentaries. For most of their teachers and all of their parents, it is something else: a […]
Two Keystone Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists
By Keystone School Seniors Neerja and Aadhya have been named National Merit Semifinalists, placing them among the top academic performers in the country for the Class of 2027. The two students are among approximately 16,000 Semifinalists selected nationwide from a pool of roughly 1.3 million students who took the PSAT. Semifinalists are the highest scorers […]
How Keystone Decides When to Keep Students Inside in the Heat
If you’ve spent a San Antonio August outside, you understand the question every parent of a school-age child eventually asks: how does the school decide when it’s safe to be outdoors? What are they actually measuring, and who made the call? For most schools, the answer has been the heat index — the “feels like” […]
How Students Make It to the Scripps National Spelling Bee — and What the Journey Actually Entails
Every spring, roughly 11 million students across the United States participate in school spelling bees. Most are eliminated within a few rounds. A smaller group advances to regional competitions. A still smaller group earns an invitation to compete at the national level in Washington, D.C., against the strongest spellers in the country. The 247 students […]
What Does Private School Tuition in San Antonio Actually Buy?
It’s the question every family eventually asks. The tuition is real, the commitment is significant, and parents want to know what they’re paying for. The most reliable answer doesn’t come from a brochure. It comes from what graduates actually do when they leave. The Class of 2026 at Keystone School makes a pretty compelling case. […]
What It Means to Choose a Private School With a Serious Arts Program
When parents think about choosing a private school, academics typically lead the conversation. Class size, college placement, AP offerings, and test scores are the metrics most families reach for first. Arts programs tend to come second — a nice amenity, a sign of a well-rounded education, but not usually the deciding factor. For families with […]
From Classroom to International Stage: What a Winning High School Science Fair Project Actually Looks Like
Every year, millions of students work on science fair projects. A very small number go somewhere else entirely. They travel through regional and state competitions, get selected for national review, and eventually land on a stage where the competition isn’t the student in the next classroom but a teenager from South Korea or Germany or […]
What Keystone teachers say is worth buying before the first day of school
By Keystone School Every August, the same question runs through households with school-age children: what on this supply list actually matters? The lists themselves are often long, sometimes vague, and occasionally contradictory from one year to the next. Parents learn quickly that not all supplies are equal — some get used every day from September […]
