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.
Ashwood has just released its new Five-Year Strategic Plan
Ashwood Waldorf School’s Five-Year Strategic Plan marks the school’s position at the beginning of the second hundred years of Waldorf education. This plan holds fast to the school’s mission while providing a guiding vision for its future and a working plan for how to get there. Click here for details.
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
Community and Social Engagement: Essential for Students
Editor's note: With the 2020 Serve-A-Thon gearing up for its fifth season, we offer you some thoughts on community service from the executive director of AWSNA. “The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the...
Parent & Child Playgroup: New 6-Week Session Begins December 3
If you would like to sign up for the next six-week session of Parent & Child Playgroup, now is the time! The next session will begin on Tuesday, December 3. We will meet on December 10 and 17, after which we'll take a break for the holidays and follow on with...
Martinmas Lantern Walk 2019
Maine DOE Selects Isaiah Doble ’17 for Statewide Student Cabinet Position
Isaiah Doble Isaiah Doble ('17) has been been selected as one of 33 students from across Maine to serve on the newly-formed Student Cabinet for the Maine Department of Education. The cabinet will represent Maine students who will have the opportunity to collaborate...
After-School Theatre Production Workshop
This is the final week of our after-school theatre production workshop, and it's been productive! For three Wedesdays, 20 5th-8th graders have shown up to build and paint props, design makeup and costumes, and create set elements for The Oddity, our Class 5-6 play,...