Rainbow Community School, Asheville | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

Enroll your child at your own risk because if you do, you will be going through the looking glass, and eventually you will find yourself down a deep, dark rabbit hole. Rainbow Community School is the complete opposite of everything they sincerely and passionately purport to be. The mission and vision, the visuals, the new agey vibe are all designed to hook you, the vulnerable parent desiring only the best for your child. You think your child will be in a beautiful rainbow school, enveloped and held by all the ideals missing from our society and culture in this place and time. Indeed, the community will welcome you with kind smiles and a warm, loving embrace as long as you don’t question anything, as long as you tow the line. However, if you question anything of value or importance, you will be castigated and made an outcast. The administration and most of the teachers claim fervent interest in nurturing and educating your child holistically; rather they are interested in protecting their image, and promoting the phony Rainbow school credo to schools around the country. The academics are below average. In fact, some of the people working at the school are not even properly qualified to teach or to counsel. The higher ups will tell you not to worry about academics, because later on your student will catch up in middle school, but this is not true. It is the lure to keep you carrying on through the grades blithely towing the line. Rainbow Community School is a wonderful place for your child if he or she is a bully, or has behavioral issues, because the school favors and protects a perpetrator. So definitely send your child here if he or she has behavioral issues, but steer clear if your child is well balanced and/or kind. Steer clear if you seek good academics. Steer clear if you seek what their mission states (because remember the Rainbow Community School world is a looking glass world). Maybe once forty years ago, in a different time and place, Rainbow Community School was a wonderful school for children, but that was then and this is now.

My rising 6th grade daughter has attended Rainbow Community School since 3rd grade and loves it. At the end of each year she declares, “This was the best school year ever.” The middle school years can be a difficult time for children, but by using the 7 Domains, Rainbow’s whole child approach to learning, each student feels understood, challenged, and inspired to do their best work. I’m confident that she’ll feel this year has been the best year ever………..again.

The teachers/staff are wonderful. Their professionalism, enthusiasm, dedication, and caring for each child in their charge comes through loud and clear. I’m so grateful my child has the opportunity to attend RCS. Finding this school has been a gift to our whole family.

Rainbow has been truly transformational for our 4-year-old daughter. We have watched her blossom and come into herself so beautifully in the two years she has spent in the Blue Door preschool room. I always dreamed of finding a school for our children that would encourage their growth spiritually as well as mentally, physically, and emotionally. Rainbow has truly shown me what is possible in education, and we could not be more grateful for their holistic approach, their kind and open hearts, and their deep honoring of the essence of who our daughter is. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!