Susquehanna Waldorf School

We, the Susquehanna Waldorf School, provide a nurturing and challenging environment that inspires our students to reach the highest levels of intellectual, spiritual, artistic, and physical achievement. The faculty and staff work in partnership with the larger school community to keep this environment vital, dynamic and diverse. Through the integration of academic and artistic pursuits, we honor the potential within each child to fully develop their unique abilities. Our students acquire a lifelong love of learning and a sense of compassion and joy that benefits them, their community and their world at large. The Susquehanna Waldorf School (SWS) is located in the small rural town of Marietta, along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley. SWS is a nonprofit educational institution, licensed by the state of Pennsylvania as a private academic school offering parent/child classes from infant to toddler, as well as nursery, kindergarten and grades 1 through 8. The school draws students from the Lancaster, York, Hershey and Harrisburg areas; and, currently 165 students from 120 families attend. SWS has been sponsored by the Kimberton Waldorf School for the past several years. In September 2002, SWS began the formal accreditation process through an intense self-study. Fortuitously our accreditation fell on the heels of AWSNA's (Association of Waldorf Schools of North America) 75-year anniversary. This accreditation recognizes SWS with full membership status. SWS is pleased to be a part of this national celebration as full participants of the worldwide Waldorf movement.

In 1987 the Susquehanna Waldorf School began in the city of Lancaster. SWS relocated to its present home in historic Marietta in 1989 and graduated the first sixth grade class in 1995. Eighth grade was added and in 2001 the first eighth grade graduated. In 2002 SWS began the AWSNA (Association of Waldorf Schools of North America) accreditation process and in 2003 purchased the building it was housed in since 1989 from Marietta Trust.