Discover Slate School
A reimagined, empowering K-12 approach to education that makes all the difference.
At Slate School, education is focused on cultivating creativity, fostering ingenuity, and inspiring a deep passion for lifelong learning. Slate School is committed to changing the landscape of education to inspire and nurture children as creative thinkers and curious learners.
Slate School is a K-12 independent 501(c)3 nonprofit school that is curiosity-driven, nature-based, interdisciplinary and project-based, and arts-integrated.
Imagine a world where a transformational education is as affordable as it is joyful.
Welcome to a world where exceptional education is accessible and financially affordable to all; a world where curiosity is encouraged, where learning is interdisciplinary, and where a natural love of lifelong learning is nurtured. The children at Slate School thrive as they engage in real rigor that matters and the kind of problem solving that is sure to make the world a better place.
Welcome to Slate School.
Supporting our students in learning without limits.
We nurture and support our students to love learning deeply and exploring widely. Our 40-acre picturesque campus is a laboratory, the classrooms are incubators, and the collaborations and discoveries are limitless.
We look at children. Not their family’s income.
Slate School is the only K-12 independent school in the country that is need blind and meets 100% of demonstrated financial need for every admitted student.
Dedicated Faculty
By maintaining a 6:1 student to teacher ratio, our talented teachers are able to know each learner and their family well. This in turn creates an environment where each child’s unique learning journey can be nurtured.
The Lower School: Nature-Based Learning for Creative Minds
As Sir Ken Robinson says, "Cultivating creativity is one of the most interesting challenges for any teacher. It involves understanding the real dynamics of creative work...creativity is about fresh thinking...it's a dynamic process that often involves making new connections, crossing disciplines, and using metaphors and analogies."
At Slate School, our students learn how to think, not what to think. They ask great questions, are driven by their own joyful purpose, and are surrounded by friends living the values of friendship, for others, forgiveness, and gratitude.
The Upper School
Coming Fall 2024
Join our diverse community of innovative, collaborative, compassionate thinkers who are ready to change the way we live in the world.
Join our community.
Apply for your child to experience Slate School. Currently accepting applications for Grades K-7.
Journey Through Slate School
Curiosity-Driven Projects
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
info@slateschool.org
Phone
(203) 872-5900