Bezos Academy will celebrate the opening of its Denton campus Sept. 2 with officials from the academy, Texas Woman’s University and the city of Denton, according to a news release.
The preschool, which will have a Montessori-style curriculum, will start classes exactly one week later.
Two-minute impact
Bezos Academy Denton will be a tuition-free institution, including meals and materials, that will serve 120 children ages 3-5 across six classrooms. The release states that 20% of the seats will be for children of TWU students, faculty and staff. The other 80% of the seats will be reserved for Denton families.
Bezos Academy cost $6 million to construct, with $1.5 million coming from the city of Denton, according to the release. It will open off Frame Street at the corner of East University Drive, adjacent to TWU’s campus and on university land.
Families earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level, or roughly $120,000 or less for a family of four, are eligible to enroll in the school. Bezos Academy uses a lottery-style system to select students each school year.
To be considered for enrollment, families must submit an application and provide proof of age and income eligibility for each child during the school’s open enrollment period. The seats already have been filled for the 2026-27 school year at the Denton campus, according to its website.
The backstory
TWU announced Dec. 6, 2023, that it finalized an agreement with Bezos Academy to house the school on university land.
The partnership allows for TWU students, faculty and staff, along with Denton families, to have affordable childcare while allowing TWU early childhood education students to have hands-on classroom experience, according to the December 2023 announcement.
Bezos Academy is a nonprofit organization launched by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that offers cost-free preschool education to eligible families. As of fall 2026, Bezos Academy will have 12 schools open across Texas, including six schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
