List of democratic schools

This is a list of some of the current and former democratic schools around the world. This list also includes sub-branches of democratic schools such as Sudbury schools inspired by the Sudbury Valley School and certain anarchistic free school that align with the broad principles of democratic education.

Argentina[edit]

Escuela de la nueva cultura La Cecilia (Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary) - Monte Vera, Santa Fe - www.lacecilia.org.ar

Australia[edit]

New South Wales:

Currambena School Lane Cove, Sydney NSW
Kinma School Terrey Hills, Sydney NSW
Korowal School Hazelbrook
Hawkesbury Independent School Hawkesbury Independent School, Kurrajong
Vistara School, Lismore Vistara School, Lismore

Queensland:

Booroobin Community Maleny QLD
Blackall Range Independent School (Primary - year 12) Kareelpa QLD
Brisbane Independent School Pullenvale, Brisbane QLD
Maridahdi Early Childhood Community School Toowoomba QLD
Pine Community School Arana Hills, Brisbane QLD
Silkwood School, Mount Nathan

Victoria:

Hurstbridge Learning Coop (Primary) Hurstbridge, Melbourne VIC
Sherbrooke Community School (Primary - year 12) Sassafrass, VIC
Village School Incorporated Croydon North, Melbourne VIC (Primary - year12)
Daylesford Dharma School, Daylesford

Candlebark, Romsey Author John Marsden Principal and Founder
Fitzroy Community School, Fitzroy North
Preshil, Kew
Koonwarra Village School, Gippsland

Tasmania:

Western Australia

Kids Open Learning School, Maylands

South Australia

Kirinari Community School, Unley

Australian Capital Territory

Blue Gum School, Hackett

Secondary Schools

Austria[edit]

Die Hupfauer (Monchdorf)
Lernwerkstatt im Wasserschloss
SchuelerInnenschule im Wuk (Vienna)
Schulkollektiv Wien Wuk (Vienna)

Belgium[edit]

Leerhuis Brussel, (Brussels)
Sudburyschool Gent, (Gent)
Pédagogie Nomade, (Limerlé) The school is closed see (French) [1]

Brazil[edit]

Baniwa School Coripaco Pamáali
Centro Integrado de Educação de Jovens e Adultos do Campo Limpo (CIEJA) (São Paulo)
Cidade Escola Aprendiz (São Paulo)
Colégio Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) [2]
Escola de Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental Teia Multicultural (São Paulo)
Escola Lumiar (São Paulo) [3]
Escola Politéia (São Paulo)
Tuyuka School
Instituto Helena Lubienska/Recanto

Canada[edit]

Agate Private School (London)
ALPHA Alternative School (Toronto)
ALPHA II Alternative School (Toronto)
Learning in the Woods (Hamilton) http://www.welearnnaturally.com/
Alternative High School (Calgary)
Fairfield School (Wolfville)--(closed August 2007^[1])
Indigo Sudbury Campus (South Edmonton) (closed 2009)
Windsor House School (North Vancouver)
SelfDesign Learning Foundation formerly Wondertree Learning Center (Vancouver)
Freewill International Learning Center (Vancouver, online)
Lakehouse Learning (Mansons Landing, Cortes Island, BC)

Colombia[edit]

Colegio Bilingue Jorge Emilio Gutierrez (Bogota

Costa Rica[edit]

Summerhill Latinoamericano

Denmark[edit]

Bernadotteskolen. Den Internationale Skole i Danmark (Copenhagen)
Det Frie Gymnasium (Copenhagen)
Lilleskolernes Sammenslutning
Roskilde Sudbury Skole (Roskilde)
Næstved Fri Skole
The Necessary Teacher Training College, DNS

Ecuador[edit]

• Rebeca Wild and the Pesta

Finland[edit]

Feeniks-Koulu (On-Line)

France[edit]

Germany[edit]

Demokratische Schule INFINITA (Steinhorst)
Sudbury Schule Ammersee (Ludenhausen)
Freie Schule Leipzig (Leipzig)
Kapriole (Freiburg)
TING-Schule (Berlin-Pankow)
Netzwerk-Schule (Berlin-Friedrichshain)
Demokratische Schule X (Berlin-Heiligensee)
Freie Schule Frankfurt (Frankfurt)
Neue Schule Hamburg (Hamburg)
Freie Aktive Schule Tübingen (Tübingen)
Freie Schule Untertaunus
Freie Schule Stuttgart (Stuttgart)
Freie Aktive Schule auf den Fildern – PIEKS (Leinfelden-Echterdingen)
Freie Schule Marbach e.V. (Marbach am Neckar)
Schulwerkstatt - Freie Schule für lebendiges Lernen (Altenriet)
Freie Aktive Schule in Esslingen - Kinderkosmos (Esslingen)
Lernwerk e.V. - Freie Aktive Montessorischule (Zuzenhausen)
Freie Aktive Schule Karlsruhe e. V. (Karlsruhe)
Freie Schule Spatz - Schule für Erziehungshilfe (Offenburg)

For a detailed list of free alternative schools in Germany check out here.

India[edit]

Abacus Montessori School (Chennai)
Butterflies Program for Street and Working Children (New Delhi)
Neel Bagh School (Bangalore)
Sumavanam (Andhra Pradesh)
Aarohi Life Education(Bangalore)

Indonesia[edit]

KBKPM (Komunitas Belajar Kampung Pingin Maju) (Kap. Jepara)
Erudio School of Art, Jakarta

Israel[edit]

Democrati Lev Hasharon (Lev Hasharon)
Democratic School of Hadera (Hadera)
The Democratic School of Kfar Sava (Kfar-Sava)
The Democratic School of Ono Valley (Kiryat-Ono)
Dolfin (Eilat)
Eynot-Yarden (Upper Galilee)
Givol Democratic School in Givat Olga (Hadera)
Hashita (Rehovot)
Hod Hasharon Democratic School (Hod Hasharon)
Jerusalem Sudbury School (Jerusalem)
Kanaf Democratic School (Ramat Ha'Golan)
Kedem - The Democratic School in Arad (Arad)
Kehila - Democratic School in Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv)
Makom Ligdol - Democratic school in Hakfar Hayarok (Ramat HsSharon)^[2]
The Keshet School (Zichron Yaakov)^[3]
Kfar Kera Democratic School (Kfar Kera)
Korczak Democratic School of Holon (Holon)
Meitar (Kibbutz Beit Oren)
Merchav (Ra'anana)
Nadav - The Modi'in Democratic School (Modi'in)
The Open Democratic School Jaffa (Tel Aviv)
Shachaf Democratic School (Shoham)
Shalem (Upper Galilee)
Shvilim (Pardes Hanna)
Tefen Experimental School (Tefen Industrial State)
Yafa - The Arab Democratic School (Jaffa)
Ziv-Kishurit (Kibbutz Kishor)
Yeshiva Tichonit Svivatit (Mitzpe Ramon)
Ashkelon (In process of establishing)

Japan[edit]

Democraticshool Makkuro-Kurosuke (Kanzakigun)
Democratic School Sola (Nishinomiya City)
Global Community School (Takasago City)
Kinokuni Children's Village (Kinokuni Kodomo no Mura), Wakayama Prefecture, f. 1992^[4]
Mie Shure
Terakoya Houjousya (Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima)
Tokyo Shure (Tokyo)
Shure University(Tokyo)[4]
Okinawa Sudbury School (Ginowan City, Okinawa-ken)

Nepal[edit]

Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir (Kathmandu)

Netherlands[edit]

5en5is11, (Maastricht)
Aventurijn, (Loenen)
De Buitenplaats, (Drogeham)
De Kampanje, (Amersfoort)
De Koers, (Beverwijk)
De Paradox, (Vorden)
De Ruimte, (Soest)
De Vallei, (Renkum)
De Vrije Ruimte, (Scheveningen)
De Ontdekking, (Drenthe)
Guus Kieft School, (Amsterdam)
Wonderwijs, (Loenen - closed 2013)
Libertad, (Breda)
Logi-k, (Borne)
Lophi, (Olst - startup)
Merkaba Sudbury, (Tholen – closed 2012)
Reuring aan de Zaan, (Zaandam - startup)
Terra Incognita, (Bergharen - closed 2014)
Democratisch Onderwijs Eindhoven, (Eindhoven)

New Zealand[edit]

Auckland Metropolitan College, Mt. Eden, Auckland--(closed December 2001^[5])
Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery, Christchurch
Freyberg Memorial Community School Te Atatu South, Auckland
The Kaitiaki Collective Auckland
Mountain Valley School Pokororo/Motueka, Nelson
Tamariki School, Christchurch
Timatanga Community School Waitakere City, Auckland

Norway[edit]

Nyskolen i Oslo

Peru[edit]

Escuela Democrática de Huamachuco

Poland[edit]

Portugal[edit]

Escola da Ponte (Vila Das AVES)

Russia[edit]

Kluch School (Moscow)
Moscow International Film School (Moscow)
School for Self-Determination (Moscow)

South Korea[edit]

Dream School (Seoul)
San Children's School (Gyeonggi-Do)
School Star (Seoul)
Small School (Gwang jin) (Seoul)
Small School (Youngsan) (Seoul)
Sungmisan School (Seoul)

Spain[edit]

Switzerland[edit]

Jürg Jegge and the Kleingruppe Lufingen
Fokus selbstbestimmt lernen (Bottmingen BL) http://www.fokus-selbstbestimmt-lernen.ch/

Thailand[edit]

Moo Baan Dek (Siam)
Whispering Seed (Kanchanaburi)

Ukraine[edit]

Park School Kyiv, Ukraine
Private Secondary Family School AIST (Stork Family School) Vinnytsia, Ukraine

United Kingdom[edit]

Currently Open

Park School (Dartington, Devon)
Sands School (Ashburton, Devon)
Small Acres School (SE London)
Summerhill School (Leiston, Suffolk)
The Family School (SW London, temporarily closed)
The Small School (Hartland, Devon)

Former democratic schools now closed

United States of America[edit]

Alabama

Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education (Fairhope)

Alaska

School Within a School (East Anchorage High School) (Anchorage)
Stellar Secondary School (Anchorage)

Arizona

Highland Free School (Tucson)
Friday Free School (planning stages) (Phoenix)

California

Altadena Free School (Altadena)
Diablo Valley School (Concord)
Deep Springs College (Deep Springs)
Global Village School (Ojai)
Leeway Sudbury School (San Diego)
Play Mountain Place (Los Angeles)
Wildcat Community FreeSchool (Richmond)
The Open School (Orange County) opening Sept 2015
The Connect Group School (Los Angeles, California)
Life Lived Freely Los Angeles, California (Westside) (planning stages)
Village Sudbury School Whittier, California (planning stages)

Colorado

The Boulder Sudbury School (Boulder)
Alpine Valley School (Wheat Ridge)
Eagle Rock School (Estes Park)
Jefferson County Open School (Lakewood)
The Patchwork School (Louisville)

Connecticut

Mountain Laurel Sudbury School (New Britain)

Delaware

The New School (Newark)

Florida

Grassroots School (Tallahassee)
SAIL High School (Tallahassee)
School Without Walls (Live Oak)
Spring Valley School (Palm Harbor)
Stonesoup School (Crescent City)
Sunset Sudbury School (Davie)

Georgia

Horizons School (Atlanta)
Sudbury School of Atlanta [6]

Hawaii

Open Source Learning, Kauai's Sudbury School (Kapaa)
Sudbury Maui (Haiku)

Illinois

Tallgrass Sudbury (Riverside, a western suburb of Chicago)
Shimer College (Chicago)^[6]

Indiana

Harmony Education Center (Bloomington)
Sudbury School of Kentuckiana (Southern Indiana) (planning stages)

Kentucky

Sudbury School of Kentuckiana (Louisville, Kentucky) (planning stages)

Maine

The Community School (Camden)
The Discovery School (Lewiston)
The New School (Kennebunk)
River School (Belfast)
School Around Us (Arundel)

Maryland

Fairhaven School (Upper Marlboro)
Freedom Hill Cooperative (Dickerson)
Arts & Ideas Sudbury School (Baltimore) [7]

Massachusetts

Balance Rock Center (Jefferson)
Mission Hill School
School Within a School (Brookline High School) (Brookline)
Stone Soup School (Worcester)
Sudbury Valley School (Framingham)

Michigan

Ann Arbor Open School
Children's Community School, Ann Arbor, (associated with Bill Ayers) c. 1968^[7]
Little Lake Learning Community (Ann Arbor)
The Sudbury School at Acorn Glen [8] (Ann Arbor)

Minnesota

Gaia Democratic School (Minneapolis)

New Hampshire

Ashuelot River Free School (Winchester)
The Community School (South Tamworth)
Hanover High School (Hanover)
The Meeting School (Rindge)
Woodland Community School (Bethlehem)

Montana

Glacier Lake School

New Jersey

Jersey Shore Free School, A Sudbury School (Little Silver)
Bergen Sudbury Free School (Under Development)
Emerson Lily Free School (Stanhope)
South Jersey Sudbury School (Medford, NJ)
South Mountain Co-op (Maplewood, NJ)
The Teddy McArdle Free School (closed)
Voyagers Community School (Colts Neck)
Wellspring Community School (Gladstone)

New Mexico

The Tutorial School (Sante Fe)

New York

Academic Community for Educational Success (Bedford Hills)
Brooklyn Free School, Brooklyn, f. 2004^[8]^[9]
Cloudhouse Agile Learning Center (Chatham)
Albany Free School (Albany)
Fifteenth Street School, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (associated with Orson Bean) c. 1980s^[8]
First Street School (Manhattan) (closed)
Harriet Tubman Democratic High School (Albany)
Hudson Valley Sudbury School (Kingston)
Lehman Alternative Community School (Ithaca)
Little River Community School (Canton)
Longview School (Brewster) [9]
Agile Learning Center at Manhattan Free School (NYC) f. 2008
Scarsdale Alternative School (Scarsdale)
School Without Walls (Rochester)
Pono Learning [www.ponolearning.org] (NYC)

North Carolina

Arthur Morgan School (Burnsville)
Katuah Sudbury School (Fletcher)
Agile Learning Center at Mosaic School (Charlotte)
Raleigh Progressive School and Learning Center (Raleigh)

Ohio

Antioch College

Oregon

Trillium Charter School (Portland)
Village Free School (Portland)
Eugene Sudbury School (Eugene)
Metropolitan Learning Center (Portland)

Pennsylvania

The Circle School (Harrisburg)
The Delta Program, a program within State College Area High School (State College)
Philadelphia Free School
The Sphere College Project (Phoenixville)
The Three Rivers Village School (Pittsburgh)
Upattinas School and Resource Center (Glenmoore)

Puerto Rico

Casa Sudbury (Cidra)
Espacio A (San Juan)
Nuestra Escuela (Caguas)

Rhode Island

The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (Providence)

Tennessee

The Farm School (Summertown)
Laurel High School (Knoxville)

Texas

Clearview Sudbury School (Austin)
Makarios Community School (Dallas-Fort Worth area) (planning stages)
The Real School AKA Dragon Valley (Houston)
The Inside Outside School (Pflugerville) http://www.insideoutsideschool.org/

Utah

Sego Lily School (Salt Lake City)

Vermont

LiHigh School (Poultney)
Red Cedar School (Bristol)

Virginia

H-B Woodlawn Program (Arlington)
The New School of Northern Virginia (Fairfax)
Shenandoah Valley Community School (Harrisonburg)
Raw Learning (Staunton)

Washington

The Clearwater School (Bothell)
Everett Agile Learning Center (Everett)
Puget Sound Community School (Seattle)
The Trillium School (Indianola)
Rising Tide School (Olympia) - Closed

West Virginia

The Highland School (Highland)

Wisconsin

The Young Women's Institute for Global Studies (Milwaukee)

References[edit]

^ http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-134708-Fairfield-School-closes.html
^ http://www.makomligdol.org.il/
^ Etiel, Yoav (23 January 2007). "Keshet, The Democratic School in Zichron Yaacov". BarEl Properties : http://www.30900.com/eng/. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
^ Leue 2000, p. 65.
^ http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?products_id=554
^ "The Shimer College Assembly". Blog.shimer.edu. 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
^ Franks, Lucinda; Powers, Thomas (September 17, 1970). "Diana Oughton Was Embittered by Establishment". Times-News 95 (215). United Press International.
^ ^a ^b Gell, Aaron (May 7, 2006). "Land of the Free". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
^ Kavner, Lucas (November 30, 2012). "At Brooklyn Free School, A Movement Reborn With Liberty And No Testing For All". The Huffington Post. AOL. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.

Sources

Leue, Mary M., ed. (2000). Challenging the Giant: The best of [SKOLE], the Journal of Alternative Education 4. Down-to-Earth Books. ISBN 1-878115-13-8. OCLC 250561130.

External links[edit]

[1] ttp://www.novanewsnow.com/article-134708-Fairfield-School-closes.html

[2] ttp://www.makomligdol.org.il/

[3] Etiel, Yoav (23 January 2007). "Keshet, The Democratic School in Zichron Yaacov". BarEl Properties : http://www.30900.com/eng/. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.

[FOOTNOTELeue200065-4] Leue 2000, p. 65.

[5] ttp://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?products_id=554

[6] "The Shimer College Assembly". Blog.shimer.edu. 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2012-09-22.

[Times-News_1970-7] Franks, Lucinda; Powers, Thomas (September 17, 1970). "Diana Oughton Was Embittered by Establishment". Times-News 95 (215). United Press International.

[NYT_Brooklyn_Free_School-8] Gell, Aaron (May 7, 2006). "Land of the Free". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.

[HuffPo:_BFS_2012-9] Kavner, Lucas (November 30, 2012). "At Brooklyn Free School, A Movement Reborn With Liberty And No Testing For All". The Huffington Post. AOL. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.

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