List of Sudbury schools

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Sudbury schools practice a form of democratic education in which students individually decide what to do with their time, and learn as a by-product of ordinary experience rather than through classes or a standard curriculum.^[1] Students are given complete responsibility for their own education and the school is run by a direct democracy in which students and staff have an equal vote.

The 'Sudbury' name refers to Sudbury Valley School, founded in 1968 in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of the first schools of this type in North America. The oldest democratic school in existence is the Summerhill School in Suffolk, England, founded in 1921. The Sudbury Valley School has been the inspiration for numerous schools that now informally consider themselves 'Sudbury schools' in addition to being democratic schools.

Australia

• Booroobin Sudbury Democratic Centre of Learning, City of Caloundra, Queensland

Belgium

• Leerhuis brussel

Germany

• Neue Schule Hamburg, Hamburg
• Ting Freie Demokratische Schule Berlin, Berlin

Israel

• "Kanaf" Democratic School, Golan Heights
• Sudbury Jerusalem, Jerusalem

Netherlands

• De Kampanje, Amersfoort
• De Koers, Beverwijk

United States

• Alpine Valley School, Wheat Ridge, Colorado
• Arts & Ideas Sudbury School, Baltimore, Maryland
• The Diablo Valley School, Concord, California
• Sacramento Valley School, Sacramento, California
• Cedarwood Sudbury School, Santa Clara, California
• Alpine Valley School, Wheat Ridge, Colorado
• River Valley Sudbury School, Chester, Connecticut
• Mountain Laurel Sudbury School, New Britain, Connecticut
• The New School, Newark, Delaware
• Spring Valley School, Palm Harbor, Florida
• Tallgrass Sudbury School, Brookfield, Illinois - established 2008.
• Evergreen Sudbury School, Hallowell, Maine
• Freedom Hill Cooperative, Dickerson, Maryland
• Fairhaven School, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
• Sudbury Valley School, Framingham, Massachusetts
• Clonlara School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Longview School, Cortlandt Manor, New York
• Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston, New York
• Katuah Sudbury School, Asheville, North Carolina
• The Circle School, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Clearview Sudbury School (starting up), Austin, Texas
• Sego Lily School, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Blue Ridge Sudbury School, Lynchburg, Virginia
• Shenandoah Valley Community School, Harrisonburg, Virginia
• The Trillium School, Indianola, Washington
• The Clearwater School, Bothell, Washington
• Rising Tide School, Olympia, Washington

Former schools

Belgium

• Sudbury De vlinder (Ghent)

Canada

• Indigo Sudbury Campus, Edmonton, Alberta
• The Beach School (Toronto, Ontario)
• The Fairfield School (Wolfville, Nova Scotia)

United States

• The Chicago Sudbury School (Chicago, Illinois)
• Big Rock SudburySchool (Novato, California)
• Greenwood Sudbury School (Hampton, CT)
• Full Circle Community School (Orlando, Florida)

See also

• Sudbury Valley School
• Democratic education
• List of democratic schools

References