About the Santa Fe Waldorf School

About Santa Fe

Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the United States. This high desert landscape is home to a number of cultural, healing, and spiritual centers—artists, scientists, musicians, and nature lovers find inspiration and solace in its striking beauty. In the summer, Santa Fe hosts the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Indian Market, Spanish Market, and the International Folk Art Festival. At Christmas time, the roofs of the traditional adobe homes sparkle at night with farolitos. In addition, one can enjoy hiking, skiing, film festivals, the farmers' markets, galleries, museums, and numerous world-class and down-home restaurants.

Within the local region of Santa Fe, there are a number of anthroposophically inspired initiatives: the Sangre de Cristo branch of the Anthroposophical Society, First Class meetings of the School of Spiritual Science, Christian Community services, adult education courses in anthroposophy, anthroposophically-oriented therapeutic practices, an art gallery highlighting artists working out of anthroposophy, CSAs, and biodynamic farming operations.

About the Santa Fe Waldorf School

In 2013, the Santa Fe Waldorf School will celebrate its 30^th anniversary. In 1983, a group of parents, who believed strongly in providing Waldorf education for their children and for the Santa Fe community, established the school with a kindergarten, 1st and combined 2^nd and 3^rd grades.  We now have pre-K through Grade 12 and our first High School graduation took place in June 2005.  Since our modest beginnings, our enrollment has grown to 250 students and our campus has grown to 13 wooded acres in southeast Santa Fe.

The Santa Fe Waldorf School is an independent, nonprofit organization with dual accreditation through the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America and the National Council for Private School Accreditation.  We welcome and serve students from a variety of social, economic, ethnic, cultural and international backgrounds.

Statement of Purpose

Based on the pedagogical principles of Rudolf Steiner, the mission of the Santa Fe Waldorf School is to cultivate the intellectual, social, emotional, physical and spiritual capacities of the developing individual through an age-appropriate early childhood through twelfth grade curriculum.

We educate the whole child in a balanced and healthy way. Our students engage in rigorous academics and gain a fundamental connection to the natural world, an appreciation of themselves and others, and the ability for moral discernment. Waldorf graduates become thoughtful, fulfilled citizens who think imaginatively, communicate effectively, relate compassionately, and initiate healthy change in the world.

The Santa Fe Waldorf School is non-sectarian and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or national and ethnic origin in its educational, administrative, admission, athletic, and school programs and policies.