The Washington Waldorf School is located in Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House , which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda...

, just north of Washington, DC. The school is a Waldorf school, based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher...

. The school is one of over 150 Waldorf schools in North America and serves about 290 students from preschool through grade 12.

History

The Washington Waldorf School was founded initially as a grade school in 1969 in Washington, DC, and in 1981 moved to its current six-acre campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The high school was added in 1984 and graduated its first 12th grade in 1988.

The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association dedicated to educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation...

 and the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. The school's sports teams (baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, and softball) compete in the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference

Potomac Valley Athletic Conference

The Potomac Valley Athletic Conference is a group of independent schools in the Washington Metropolitan area for interscholastic athletics. It was formed in 1979.- Member schools :The current member schools are:*Barrie School**Edmund Burke School...

.

External links

• Official web site
• The Waldorf Method, The Washington Times, June 1, 2003. Accessed 2009-04-19.