To accommodate parents with busy schedules, a day care program and enrichment classes are offered after school. The enrichment program offers a variety of fifty classes, including cooking, computer instruction, chess, karate, gymnastics, piano, and modern dance. Plans include improved supplies and equipment for the programs, further training for the staff, and increased scholarship assistance. It is not surprising that seven thousand students applied for admission to the school. Since the institution was built in part to relieve the overcrowded schools of West University, about a third of the 1,275 spaces were filled by students from that area.
Students seem to be thriving on the school.
I like the diversity because a lot of my friends are white, a lot of my friends are Hispanic, and a lot of my friends are black. Kevin Dancy, a sixth grader, says the school offers a wide variety of academic choices and has caring teachers. If you turn in something and you didn't try very hard, the teachers will give it back to you and say try harder. The Rice School was able to be very selective in choosing teachers. More than ten times the eighty who were needed applied.