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Runnymede is a lower cost therapeutic home for boys age 9-16 with behavioral problems. It offers a farm/ranch setting and full-time care designed to lovingly reform at risk teen behavior and build maturity and respect in rebellious boys. Read More...
Runnymede operates on a level system which emphasizes three important aspects--spiritual, physical, and academics.
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Each student will receive a personal curriculum upon enrollment. Students are encouraged to work at a faster pace than a typical school.
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Our staff is made up of gifted teachers and mentors who have a heart for kids and are well-qualified for building up young men.
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Runnymede has given hope to young men coming out of a profoundly hopeless culture. Here is what former residents and parents say.
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Boys need forests, rivers, grass and streams to play in. Fishing, camping, exploring and building tree houses are powerful for healing and Runnymede Home for Boys has all that a boy could want. More About Our School...
Getting back to the basics of life is very therapeutic for young boys. The students in our home for boys learn and participate in farming aspects by planning and planting their own crops, preparing soil, cultivating, watering, and harvesting, and caring for farm animals. Read More...
Our philosophy revolves around raising up young men who are faithful worshipers, faithful laborers, and faithful husbands by instilling a biblical foundation in their lives that will last a lifetime. Boys Home Mission...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Runnymede School was founded by Bob and Susan Brandon. Mr. Brandon is a gifted teacher with 20 years of experience working with young people as a school teacher in public and private schools in California and Missouri. Susan handles Runnymede admissions. Susan and Bob have eight children.
When you need help finding Christian boarding schools for girls or therapeutic boarding schools for girls, our referrals department can help. We also refer to therapeutic boarding schools for boys and girls and rehabs for men and boys. Some Christian boarding schools for teens are coed, so we can help you find the best Christian boarding schools for girls and boys. Finally, we can refer you to boys ranches,therapeutic programs for boys, or Ozarks Academy.
Boys home - boys ranch for struggling adolescents and preteen boys, with counseling. Runnymede boys home offers a traditional academy and Christian boarding school for troubled boys, struggling teens, teens with ADD and ADHD, OCD, RAD, rebellion, and difficulties with academics. Teens come to Runnymede home for boys mostly from Texas, California, Oregon and Washington on the West Coast and Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Nevada in the Southwest, from Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in the Central States, from Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Idaho in the north, and from Georgia, Florida, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Jersey along the east coast. A Christian boarding school and boys home for at risk boys who are troubled teens from the United States.