Charlottesville Waldorf School
Preschool in Charlottesville, VA 22901
Our preschool and kindergarten classrooms provide an enriching first school experience in a play-based program that fosters a child’s innate curiosity, a love of learning and lays the foundation for future academic interest and achievement. Our grades program builds on this foundation, and further inspires children as they grow and develop their heads, hearts, and hands. In our elementary and middle school program, we offer education with a rigorous curriculum that honors the development of the child and works to cultivate active learning, critical thinking, and social intelligence while artistic and kinesthetic exploration supplement academic subjects to form a comprehensive foundation of study. Collectively our goal is to have enabled our students to build the critical foundational skills for a lifetime pursuit of learning as they leave our campus for High School.
- Child Ages:
- 2.5 years - 14 years
- Rates:
- $$
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- Virginia Department of Social Services, AWSNA full member.
- Vouchers:
- This provider does not accept vouchers
- Special Needs:
- We have a student support services program for children who need extra help while moving along their journey.
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Children per Teacher:
- Infant: -/-, Toddler: 6/2, Pre k: 8/2, Afterschool: 10/2
- Hours of Operation:
- 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
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Thank you for your interest in the Charlottesville Waldorf School (CWS).
As the oldest Waldorf School in Virginia, we are proud to be part of an almost 100-year tradition of Waldorf Education worldwide. From our opening class of 12 kindergarteners, we have been cultivating creative, critical, and ethical thinking since 1982. Over the span of these years, we have grown into a full pre-k through 8th-grade school to include our newest edition of parent/child programming.
Waldorf Education is one of the fastest growing instructional methods in the world, with more than 1,000 independently run schools in over 60 countries providing a distinctive and developmentally appropriate curriculum.
What sets the Waldorf curriculum apart is not necessarily what is taught but how it is taught. True learning is a process of discovery that engages the whole human being. Instead of passively receiving information, Waldorf students are involved in a dynamic process of exploration, both of the world and of themselves.
Waldorf education strengthens the child to meet not only the challenges of school but also of life. To face their futures with confidence, students need to develop a capacity for clear thinking, emotional stability, intellectual flexibility, and moral values. Our objective is to help all students to blossom into young adulthood with a balanced capacity for both thinking and feeling so that they are prepared with self-confidence and inner resources to accept responsibility and to take their places as creative, self-directed members of society.