The Camphill School is a Waldorf school, as well as a Pennsylvania Approved Private School, for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
We are part of the worldwide Camphill movement and the only Camphill community in North America for children.
We offer boarding and day academic and prevocational programs, as well as therapeutic care, for children in kindergarten through grade twelve.
We also offer a Transition Program for young people ages eighteen to twenty-one.
The Camphill School's mission is to create wholeness for children and youth with developmental disabilities through education, extended family living, and therapy so that they may be better understood, they may more fully unfold their potential, and they may meaningfully participate in life.
The Camphill School is a nonprofit Pennsylvania Approved
Private School and Waldorf school that offers day and residential
programs for children and youth with intellectual and developmental
disabilities that may include, but are not restricted to,
Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD), Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD), Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), Down
Syndrome, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), Fragile X Syndrome,
Williams Syndrome, and other syndromes associated with intellectual
disability. The Camphill School is part of the worldwide Camphill
Movement and the only Camphill community in North America for
children, as well as the only Waldorf school in the country for
children with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
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The average private school tuition in Chester County, PA is $20,134 for elementary schools and $32,061 for high schools (read more about average private school tuition across the country).
