Welcome Tomball Kings

As Tomball Kings we have, since inception, been a sports-centered program for home school students and families. Yet we have always been attentive to academics. Our athletes must be in good academic standing in their home schools. We encourage students of high school age to take advantage of the home-school dual-credit program at Lone Star College. We named our sports performance program for Sir Isaac Newton, in recognition of his contributions to our understanding of biomechanics. And, whenever requested, we provide home schooling and curriculum guidance both to aspiring home schoolers and those seeking improvement in existing home schools.

Through this years-long process and our interactions with hundreds of home school families, as well as our own life experiences as students, home schoolers, coaches, teachers, and business leaders, we have realized the need for a new model in K-12 education.

This model is still "home school," or family-centered, with parents as prime directors in the education of their children. But, it is anchored in academics rather than athletics, and incorporates the arts, broadly defined, on a co-equal basis with athletics.

Our concept integrates academics, arts, and athletics into a single whole, with academics as the first among equals. It values courage, honor, and excellence as the standards of conduct and performance to be upheld by all students and teachers. And it encourages rigor in each undertaking, accompanied by a fervent desire to compete to be the very best we can be in everything we do.

Competition deserves special mention, as it bears directly on the effectiveness of home schooling.

Competition is one of the most powerful forces for good in society, while also being among the most misunderstood and under-appreciated.

Competition is also among the most difficult virtues to inculcate in a home school. Competition requires comparison, and home schools struggle—by their very nature—to provide meaningful opportunities for comparison and the ordinal rankings that comparison implies.

Most of us are cautious about comparing our children with one another overtly, and rightly so. But in the world outside of our homes we all compare, of necessity. Part of becoming an adult is recognizing that we will be compared with others and must do our best to obtain favorable comparisons in whatever we happen to undertake. Gaining admission to a particular university, obtaining particular employment, winning a competitive bid process, and a host of other activities are competitive endeavors predicated on comparison.

A new model for education is necessary that builds upon the strengths of home schooling while also providing opportunities for competition that would be impractical for traditional home schools to offer, across the domains of academics, arts, and athletics.

We will introduce this new model—named "Newton Prep"—in the 2026–2027 academic year, and retire our activities as "Tomball Kings" at the conclusion of this year's spring sports season. Newton Prep will proudly carry forward the history, records, and accomplishments of Tomball Kings athletes and teams. Families will remain free to choose the Newton Prep programs that best support their home schools.

This summer's sports camps will be the first Newton Prep offerings.

Our new name honors Sir Isaac Newton and mirrors that of the Newton sports performance program—also named for Sir Isaac—that we operate in conjunction with Missing Element Sports at the Texas Sports Medicine Center. That program will continue under Newton Prep, as will our basketball, baseball, and track and field programs.

Our choice of this new name and program structure recognizes that students in the United States trail those from dozens of other countries in their knowledge of science and mathematics. This deficit puts our students at a competitive disadvantage in a world that is increasingly interconnected as a global market.

Our name also reflects our need to achieve geographic neutrality in our brand and market presence. The population of the Greater Houston area is expanding to the north and west of Tomball. Prospective families frequently ask whether they must live in Tomball to join us, which—of course—they do not. With "Newton Prep" we convey the importance we place on rigorous preparation for college and life—leaving high school with a solid understanding of science and mathematics, and our welcome to families not just in Tomball but from all around our area.

We would be most grateful for your help in developing Newton Prep, whether in academics, arts, athletics, or the integrated whole. We already have a volunteer working group of Tomball Kings and Missing Element coaches collaborating on the concept with multiple high school parents, but we have much to do to get ready for next year. Please join us.

Our academic emphasis for next year will be in attracting new families to home schooling and helping more students take advantage of dual-credit studies at Lone Star College. We will also begin offering Newton Prep courses and curating courses and curricula from other sources around the world.

We will add football to our current athletics offerings of basketball, baseball, and track and field; Newton Sports Performance; and camps, classes, and clinics.

We construe "arts" broadly, to include not just traditional arts such as music, dance, painting, and sculpture, but also practical arts such as woodworking, mechanical skills, and agriculture.

If you have a passion for any of these subjects, please let us know. We welcome your contribution across multiple fronts, from offering a course to serving on a facilities committee or other committee.

A corresponding announcement appears on the Tomball Kings website under the heading “Introducing Newton Prep.”

You will note that the new website consists entirely of text at this time. That is by design. Among the concerns we intend to address through Newton Prep is the decline in reading and the ability to focus across our society. This decline is, frankly, impoverishing. Our colonial ancestors were almost one hundred percent literate, memorized poetry, read the entire Bible and other classic works, and wrote beautifully. These practices and skills are in a decades-long decline, to our detriment. Many of us have heard that dopamine release may drive our consumption of flickering images and rapid-attention-shifting media. But studying, too, releases dopamine, if we will only clear our minds long enough to allow its effects.

Join our Newton Prep mailing list and check back on the new site regularly. We look forward to continuing our work together under the Newton Prep banner, starting this summer of 2026.