Berkshire Waldorf High School

Waldorf education in the Berkshires of Massachusetts

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Join us for an Open House on Feb. 15, 2024

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Accepting applications for the 2024-25 school year.
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Preparing students for lifelong learning.

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Annual All-School Orientation at Camp Hi-Rock. The school year has officially begun!

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A unique high school in the Berkshires, Berkshire Waldorf High School offers honors-level, college preparatory academics and is also well-integrated into the larger community, including classes and workshops in renowned artists’ studios, the use of local labs and gyms, Shakespeare & Company, field trips to events and museums in the Northeast, and international travel.

We provide an education for adolescents that seeks truth, develops imagination, nurtures growth, fosters responsibility, and honors inner freedom in an atmosphere of academic excellence, artistic fulfillment, openness, and mutual respect.

Highly-qualified teachers lead students through a rich and varied array of block-scheduled seminars that range from thermodynamics to Shakespeare, from statistics to the history of the modern world. In addition to seminar subjects, students complete a college preparatory curriculum in mathematics, English, and a foreign language. Music, drama, eurythmy, fine arts, practical arts, and physical education provide our teenagers with additional opportunities for creative expression and demanding activity. In addition, high school students are required to do community service.

Waldorf education is a humanistic approach to pedagogy based upon the educational philosophy of the philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Learning is interdisciplinary, integrating practical, artistic, and conceptual elements. The approach emphasizes the role of the imagination, developing thinking that includes a creative as well as an analytic component. The educational philosophy’s overarching goals are to provide young people the basis on which to develop into free, moral, and integrated individuals, and to help every child fulfill his or her unique destiny.

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Visiting MassMoCa March 2020

Statement on Diversity

Diverse perspectives and voices are integral components of a healthy educational community. Berkshire Waldorf High School works to attract students, teachers, and trustees from diverse backgrounds, including diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, physical ability, and religious belief. We also work to create an inclusive school culture and a curriculum that embraces and supports students of all backgrounds.

Non-Discrimination Policy

Berkshire Waldorf High School admits students of any race, color, national, or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national, or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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