- Private
- IL
Chicago Waldorf School
- grade A+Overall Grade
- Private
- PK, K-12
- IL
- Rating 4 out of 5 38 reviews
Report Card
- Academicsgrade A+
- Diversitygrade A minus
- Teachersgrade B+
- College Prepgrade A
- Clubs & Activitiesgrade C+
- Sportsgrade C
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The Chicago Waldorf School offers a developmentally appropriate, experiential, and academically rigorous approach to PreK through 12 education.
The arts are integrated with all academic disciplines for children from Early Childhood through 12th grade to enhance and enrich learning. Waldorf education aims to inspire lifelong learning in all students and to enable them to fully develop their unique capacities.
Teachers in Waldorf schools are dedicated to generating an inner enthusiasm for learning within every child. This eliminates the need for competitive testing, academic placement, and reward-motivated learning and allows motivation to arise from within. It helps engender the capacity for joyful, lifelong learning. Through an experiential, hands-on educational model, CWS students cultivate their intellectual, emotional and physical capacities to be individuals certain of their paths and to be of service to the world.
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We are big believers in getting kids outside to interact with their surroundings and community. Fresh air and exercise are important aspects, but students learn a tremendous amount from the natural world. Outside is a place of doing, observing, and interacting. Frequent class trips and service-learning opportunities further strengthen the bonds between classmates and between students and teachers.
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Preschool
- Offers Full WeekYes
- Offers Part WeekYes
- Offers Full DayYes
- Offers Part DayYes
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- Cost of Livinggrade C minus
- Good for Familiesgrade A
- Housinggrade C
Chicago Waldorf School Reviews
THE SCHOOL , expensive as it is, does not have a library .
It doesn’t have a cafeteria . So there IS NO FOOD AVAILABLE IN THE SCHOOL .
The management is dedicated to raising more snd more money, despite the very high fees charged.
Students are from affluent families. Or they are the children of staff so they study free.
This school had so much potential, but it is achieving maybe 30 percent of it.
A waste of money and a dashing of hopes.