Runnymede operates on a level system which emphasizes three important aspects--spiritual, physical, and academics.

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About Runnymede Boys Home

Runnymede School for Boys, located near Walnut Grove, Missouri, is a therapeutic Christian boarding school for boys aged 9-16 that focuses on personalized counseling, discipling, and mentoring while living on a working farm. Our goal is to provide the structure and discipline that will help your son "put off" bad habits and behaviors, while they "put on" new productive, Godly behaviors.

Our unique environment provides a setting where every experience and practice guide in changing bad habits and, with God's help, renewing their minds. We are dedicated to providing a safe, Christian, and family atmosphere that will encourage and train struggling boys to be the Godly young men that parents, churches and communities can be proud of. Our goal is to provide early intervention and prevention to help struggling boys reach their full potential and to become well-rounded Christian young men.

Personalized Counseling

Young men attending Runnymede receive invaluable one-on-one tutoring and counsel throughout each day, not just in a once or twice a week clinical setting. Our counselors live with the struggling boys.

A Home that Shelters from Negative Peer Influences

The boys at Runnymede are protected from the influences of their peers who may be affecting their behavior, while they also learn from our counseling and life skills training.

A Back-to-Basics Lifestyle

Runnymede school residents learn how to milk cows, feed calves, raise chickens and turkeys, collect eggs, feed pigs and goats, ride horses, grow fruit and vegetables and they'll love every minute of it.

Lower in Cost than Most Therapeutic Boys Homes

Runnymede Boys Home offers reasonable rates as compared to other boarding schools that focus on behavior problems. We have very low overhead. Keeping to small enrollment we are able to intensify counseling and therapy.

Boys age 9-16 come to Runnymede from around the country, but mostly from the Midwest. Boys come to the low cost boarding school from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Minnesota, Montana and Kentucky.