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INFORMATION

ACADEMICS

State Accountability

Overall School Rating for Remynse Elementary:
  • A (92)
Distinction Designations:
  • Postsecondary Readiness

TEA School Report Card:

House Bill 3:

PROGRAMS

  • Gifted and Talented
  • Pre-Kindergarten (PreK 4)

Remynse Elementary

MISSION

The mission of Remynse Elementary School is to increase academic achievement by implementing and evaluating a technology integrated comprehensive curriculum which enables students to become literate problem-solving critical thinkers. We have high expectations for all students, and provide a safe and nurturing environment collaboratively with parents and community to ensure that all students become responsible, productive citizens.

VISION

  • Our school will be a place where parents, teachers, and students will work together to create a positive, safe, and secure environment that will foster a community of life-long learners.
  • Students will be encouraged to take responsibility for their actions and their learning.
  • Teachers will use hands-on, real-life, problem-solving experiences in the classroom to encourage critical thinking and to develop productive citizens.
  • The uniqueness of each individual will be recognized and valued in order to help each child maximize his potential.

WE BELIEVE...

  • All children can learn.
  • Children have the right to a safe, positive, nurturing learning environment.
  • Optimum learning is dependent upon communication and a sense of partnership among students, parents, community, and school.
  • Real-life, problem-solving, hands-on experiences constitute the core of quality learning.
  • The uniqueness of the individual must be respected.

History

Bud Remynse was born in 1937 in Kalamazoo, Mich., and he and his family moved to Arlington in 1950. Remynse attended Arlington High School and played football, graduating in 1955. He attended Ranger Junior College on a football scholarship, and he completed his bachelor’s at Arlington State College. Remynse received a master’s in education and a secondary administrators certification from North Texas State.

Remynse began his teaching and coaching career at Carter Junior High in 1961. He was a coach and physical education teacher. He moved to Sam Houston High School in 1967, working under Principal Harold Key as a b-team coach and P.E. instructor. He became principal of Sam Houston in 1972. Remynse spent 22 years at Sam Houston, earning the nickname Mr. Sam Houston, and he was always supportive of Sam Houston activities during his time there.

Remynse also became known as “Uncle Bud” to students after his niece attending Sam Houston refused his request to call him Mr. Remynse, saying, “You have always been my Uncle Bud and you will always be Uncle Bud to me.” Remynses’ interaction with students, teachers and parents earned him a reputation of “having a knack of making each kid at [Sam Houston High School] feel like he knew them and liked them,” said Lila Davis, a journalism instructor at the school. Remynse participated in many pep rallies, even dressing once as Tarzan, swinging from a rope installed in the rafters of the gym.

Remynse and his wife Judy had two sons Todd and Chad. Bud died after complications from heart surgery in October of 1988 at the age of 51.