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2023 GUIDE TO PRIVATE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
Success Stories
Preparing for a Changing World
Mountain Laurel
Waldorf School
Waldorf Education prepares the child for the ever-changing world through lifelong learning. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School offers a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education in which teachers integrate the arts and academics for children from preschool through 8th grade. The aim
of the education is to enable students to fully develop their unique capacities.
Pairing Tradition with Flexibility
Doane Stuart School
The Doane Stuart School is an Interfaith, Early Childhood through Grade 12 college preparatory school, idyllically set on 25+ acres along the Hudson Riverbank, and conveniently located off of I-90 in Rensselaer, NY. As one of the top private schools serving
Waldorf students cultivate their intellectual, emotional, and physical capacities to be individuals certain of their paths and to be of service to the world.
the students of the Capital Region, Doane Stuart provides an academic experience focused on future success unlike any other. Small class sizes foster open discussion and student-teacher collaboration. The school’s educational programs are broken into Lower (elementary), Middle, and Upper (high) school, each carefully catered to students with an active and engaging curriculum traditional at its core, but flexible and progressive enough
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Doane Stuart School
to allow students to follow their passions. The Doane Stuart School maintains
a historic dedication to service-learning, music, the arts, social justice, and environmentalism, with
the latter demonstrated by a $1.4 million green roof. The school’s realigned tuition structure for 2023-24 increases the accessibility of a Doane Stuart education to families across the Capital Region. •
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SCHOOLS