Best Special Needs Schools in Glencoe, Missouri (2026)

Living Water Academy opened in fall 2005 with 39 students in Pre-K through 4th grade, after several mothers at West County Community Church in Wildwood looked for a challenging Christian school and found none. We added a middle school after our first two years and now serve preschool through high school, with kid's day out and aftercare programs, on the Fellowship of Wildwood campus. Our K-8 classes average 15 students. Teachers use Christian curricula including Bob Jones, Purposeful Design, Apologia and Christ In Culture, and we benchmark progress with the Iowa tests. Every grade takes P.E., art, music, Spanish and computer science, and 8th graders can earn high school credit in math and foreign language. Our Learning Center uses the SPIRE and Wilson methods for reading and phonics and supports elementary and middle school students who need help beyond the core classroom. Our $3 million facility includes a gymnasium, library and chapel. Students take part in musical productions, Upward basketball, cheerleading, soccer, volleyball, basketball and the Speech and Word Festival. We are accredited K-12 by ACSI.

• Christian private school (PreK-12)
• Christian education
• Small class sizes
• Wilson reading method