Wightwood School, founded in 1972, is a coeducational elementary school from Pre-K through 8th Grade. The spacious modern classroom buildings occupy rural farm land adjacent to protected wetlands. The school offers a rich and educationally challenging program in a learning environment that is sensitive and responsive to individual children's developmental needs. Wightwood is a school which has committed itself to small class sizes and consequently strong relationships among faculty, students and parents. It is also a school committed to ethnic and cultural diversity and gender equity. It seeks to graduate students with the skills to pursue successful lives, the values to make a contribution to society, and the resources to enjoy the arts and culture of a diverse world. At Wightwood School, we are committed to providing an exciting, individualized, and effective learning environment which develops academic skills needed to meet current and future challenges; stimulates intellectual curiosity; enhances creativity; builds self-esteem and confidence; fosters an appreciation for cultural diversity; and inspires a sense of social responsibility. ...read more