Reach International School (RIS) was established in 2006 to be an alternative school for students and their families who wanted to veer away from a traditional setting. An inclusive school that had smaller class sizes with less structure and rigidness, it chose the School of Tomorrow (SOT) System for its curriculum. The SOT system is an American Program known and recognised worldwide for its highly effective individualized program.

Reach, first began as a modest learning center that provided remediation and intervention programs for students with learning disabilities to cope with the School of Tomorrow (SOT) program. It was one of the first schools to include all types of students. Originally, many of its first students were from traditional schools who could not provide the necessary educational support that allow students to succeed the rigidity of a traditional program. The provision of the educational support system to help students learn regular academic content set the school apart from any other institutions. It was a unique program that allowed students to succeed academically. Parents who heard about the program began to come and enroll their children. Overtime, parents of students who preferred an alternative school and parents of gifted and special needs children began to come. While the SOT program could accommodate gifted students through its enrichment program. It could not accommodate the special needs population. Thus was born the special education department that developed and created the special needs program.

Since then, the centre has transformed into a full-fledged school. Reach International School (RIS) was thus founded, with its individualised teaching-learning methods expanded and customised to include all types of learners. To address all the learning needs of its population, Reach departed from the SOT program. Developing and creating a unique learning program that addresses the unique learning styles of its students. At the same time providing quality education that empowers and enables their students to become life long learners.

Its founder, Martha Cynthia Tinsay Gonzalez and program director Nenita Lucas (fondly known as Teacher Net retired since 2014), both educators with many years of experience believed in no “child left behind, no child held back.” For decades both has advocated for greater inclusion and for learning without limits, and both determined to continue their advocacy. Reach International School (RIS) continues to push for greater inclusion and continues to grow and find ways to make inclusive learning accessible to all kinds of learners.

Reach is accredited by the Dept. of Education (DepED)