The short version
We see the whole child, and we grow the whole child
Not a score, not a label — your actual child, known well enough that the teaching is built around them. And then stretched: the curious mind, and the kind, confident person it belongs to.
No ceiling, and no waiting
Children move by stage, not by age. A first grader ready for third-grade math does third-grade math. And the ceiling most children hit isn’t the curriculum — it’s the teacher. That’s the ceiling we hire against.
It starts with their questions
A teacher’s first job here isn’t to hand over the answer. It’s to protect the question long enough for a child to do something with it — usually a project, usually built with other people, often outdoors.
Finally, among equals
For a lot of our families it’s the first time their child isn’t the only one. Kids as engaged as they are, conversation that goes somewhere, and a culture that’s genuinely kind rather than competitive.
We weren’t looking for a fancier school. We were looking for one that saw our kid. We found it.
— Knox parent, Lower School
5:1
Students to teachers
Stage not age
Every classroom spans two grades
K–8
One community, nine years
WASC
Accredited
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