Ashwood Waldorf School is an independent, pre-K through eighth grade learning community. Ashwood offers a rigorous, classical education structured around the stages of human development. Our professional faculty is devoted to challenging and engaging each student through a curriculum that integrates science and mathematics with literature, history, and the arts. Ashwood graduates are vibrant, balanced and confident individuals with the initiative to learn, adapt, and thrive in a changing world.
Early Childhood
Our early-childhood teachers create a warm, caring atmosphere that nurtures each child’s initiative through creative play and fosters healthy social experiences.
Grade School
Central to Ashwood’s philosophy is a desire to honor childhood and make learning joyful. Individual achievement gives way to the quality of our students’ relationships with their teachers and classmates.
Middle School
Through each of the main lesson subjects teachers lay the groundwork for the deepening and widening of the students’ understanding of the world and their unique place within it.
Campus News
Seeding the Future
New video celebrates 100th anniversary of Waldorf education. "Seeding the Future" provides a glimpse into the principles of Waldorf education, an education that fosters concern for others, connection to the world, and the capacity to be in service to society. This...
Ashwood Has A Special Place In My Heart
This year I am celebrating my 10th year as part of the Ashwood Waldorf community. To date, it is 30 years that I have worked as a Waldorf teacher and 40 years as teacher, all round numbers…so let’s get out the champagne, please! Ursula leading the Morris dancers at...
2019 Fifth Grade Pentathlon Gallery
© Madrona Wienges 2019
Waldorf 100 Quilt Project
In February, Ashwood received an email from an 8th grade Waldorf student in Offenburg, Germany. Twelve-year-old Alessia wrote that she attends the Waldorf (Steiner) School there. For her 8th grade project she planned to make "a patchwork quilt that shows the diversity...
Hot News: The Alumni Newsletter Is Out
Alumni board members Alden Robinson and Caroline Ginsburg recently compiled and sent out the the spring edition of the Alumni Newsletter. Among other items of interest, the newsletter unveils the new Alumni Artisan Hub with profiles of, and links to, enterprising...
You’re Invited to a Birthday Party for Waldorf Education at 100!
Our 2019 homecoming party is going to be extra special next year as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Waldorf education. Mark your calendars for Friday, September 13, 5-7 p.m.for this grand and friendly kick off to the school year. Plans are...
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