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Maple Village Waldorf School aims to create a compassionate and welcoming environment rooted in the traditions and the philosophy of Waldorf education.
Maple Village Waldorf School has its home in one of the most diverse cities in the United States. We welcome the wide array of cultures, races, economic backgrounds, cognitive variations, religious affiliations, abilities, gender identities, and sexual orientations represented in the body of our faculty, staff, parent/guardians and students. We value this multiplicity and consistently work to ensure that the population of our school reflects that of our community, and we strive to cultivate an multicultural curriculum that reflects and meets our students with respect, relevance, cultural awareness and inclusion.
We endeavor to engage and nurture the whole child resulting in a balance of heart, mind, body and spirit.
We are committed to engaging and nurturing the whole child resulting in a balance of heart, mind, body and spirit. Our work in diversity, and inclusion provides an environment that helps usher into the world well rounded individuals learned, inwardly confident, responsible, and self-motivated with reverence for others and their environment.
We place a high importance on contributing to and providing a positive focal point for the local community.
Our school provides an environment that helps usher into the world well rounded individuals learned, inwardly confident, responsible, and self-motivated with reverence for others and their environment.
Arts and Music Programs: Chorus, Cooking Class, Djembe drums, Handwork, Japanese Program, Lyre, Newspaper, Recorder, Spanish Program, Strings Program, Woodworking
Recreational Athletic Programs: Games
School Notes
Maple Village Waldorf School (MVWS) is located in a quaint
residential neighborhood in Long Beach, California. The school was
founded in 2008 by a group of passionate parents and teachers who
met through a local home-based Waldorf-inspired program. Through
outreach, the original group grew to include other educators and
professionals, resulting in a larger community effort. They spent
three years studying and researching together before forming a
Board of Trustees and various dedicated committees. After one year
of deliberation, the founders decided that Maple Village would be a
private school rather than a public charter school in order to be
free to offer a true and whole Waldorf curriculum to the greater
Long Beach community.
Our school began with one parent/child class, including a
built-in parent education component. We have since added a full and
thriving early childhood program, including a baby & me class, four
parent/toddler classes, two parent participation preschool classes,
and two kindergarten classes. In the fall of 2011 we
enthusiastically launched our grades program, which includes Grades
One through Eight. With great joy and pride, we graduated our first
class in 2018. Though we have come a long way from that home based
program, the thread of passionate parents and teachers has
continued to be a core value in our school and community of
families.
Maple Village Waldorf School is Associate Member of AWSNA, the
Association of Waldorf Schools in North Americawhich is a
member of CAPSO (California Association of Private Schools), and
aDeveloping Member ofWECAN, the Waldorf Early Childhood
Association of North America. We are recognized by the U.S
Department of Education as a Green Ribbon School and the City of
Long Beach as a Green Business.We also participate in the
California Department of Public Health Asthma-Safer Microfiber
Cleaning Program.
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