Who we are
A learning community built around children who learn differently.
Carillon Academy was born when tutoring families told us the same story again and again: bright children coming home defeated by schools that were never designed for them.
In 2024, Ms. Rebekah and four families turned a home into a learning community for half-day reading and math instruction. In 2025 the program grew to full days and eight students. We kept the part that mattered most: knowing each child well enough to teach them precisely.
Carillon Academy (formerly Wirdsmith Academy) is located in Bon Air, Virginia. For the 2026–27 academic year we are leasing space at Woodland Heights Baptist Church, which gives us accessible classrooms throughout, a commercial kitchen for our cooking program, room to move on rainy days, and Forest Hill Park and the James River next door for nature study.
We are not trying to be a large school. Small means a teacher can notice when a morning is slipping away, change the plan, and get a child back to feeling capable before the day is over.
Non-discrimination
Carillon Academy is committed to an environment free from discrimination and harassment of any kind. Discrimination based on race, ethnic or national origin, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, military status, sex, childbirth or related medical conditions, disability, or any other protected class is prohibited. No individual who participates in or attends Carillon Academy shall be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination on any of these bases.
2024
Four families, a home classroom, half-day reading and math.
2025
Full days, eight students.
2026
A larger campus at Woodland Heights Baptist Church.