Founding families · Founding 25
Help us build Beaumont a real home for performers
The Founding 25 is open: 25 founding spots, counted per student. Founding students get founding prices, keep them as long as they stay enrolled, and help decide what this school becomes. It closes Sunday, January 24, 2027, or when spot 25 is paid.
The founding offer · Founding 25
25 founding spots. 90 days. One stage.
Spots are counted per student, so two children from one family take two spots. Founding prices are the same whether you're first or twenty-fifth.
Saturday, January 9, 2027
Meet the teacher, try the keys and book your placement.
Monday, January 11, 2027
Weekly classes start for founding students.
Sunday, January 24, 2027
Or sooner, the moment spot 25 is paid.
Saturday, April 10, 2027
Every founding student plays a full song on stage.
Stage 1 · ages 11 to adult
Founding 25 · Debut
Per 12-week term; Debut is two terms. Regularly $647 in full or 3 × $239/mo
Then Encore at $199/mo, locked. Paying in full makes you a Full Score family.
Claim a spot at placementAges 8–10
Founding 25 · Junior Debut
Regularly $437 in full or 3 × $159/mo
Then Junior Encore at $179/mo, locked. Paying in full makes you a Full Score family.
Claim a spot at placementFounding bonuses
- Your Encore rate locked at $199/mo as long as you stay continuously enrolled
- Your name on the Founders Wall
- First pick of class times
- One free First Chords Lab seat for a parent or older sibling
What a founding spot includes
- 12 small-group classes and your track's student book
- The free placement session (a $75 value)
- A showcase slot with professional video
- Take-home practice sheets every lesson and a personal skill map
- Weekly practice-video feedback and a parent progress report
- Founding rates for as long as you stay continuously enrolled, into Artist, Specialist and beyond
Founding rates: Encore $199/mo, Junior Encore $179/mo, Artist and Specialist $369/mo (private lesson plus group lab).
Six ways to help
How families help found the school
Every student gets the same teaching whether or not their family helps. Founding families are named in every showcase program for the first year, and on a Founders Wall once there's a building.
Prepay
Take one of the Founding 25 spots: $577 a term for Debut, $397 for Junior Debut, then Encore at the founding rate of $199/mo.
Refer
Send us a family. When they enroll, you get a $50 lesson credit.
Lend
Lend through Kiva from $25, at 0%, repaid over three years. Open the Kiva page
Connect
Introduce us to a business that might sponsor a lab keyboard.
Give in kind
Lend a space, a skill or equipment the school needs.
Show up
Come to a showcase and cheer. It costs nothing and it matters.
The plan
Lean now, a storefront when the students are here
We're growing in steps, so tuition pays for teaching, not empty rooms.
Lean start
Lessons in rented rooms, by the hour at a church or shared space, in west Beaumont near Dowlen Road, Major Drive or the US-69 corridor toward Lumberton.
Group classes
First Chords Lab, Kids Keys Club and Worship Keys Lab, open to families citywide.
The storefront
Around 1,200 square feet with a keyboard lab for group classes, a private studio and a lobby, once about 30 students are enrolled and there's a waitlist. On our plan, that's early in year two.
Mid-County
A satellite room in Nederland a few afternoons a week, once enough families come from Mid-County.