This campus has been our home for twelve years and now we have been offered the opportunity to purchase the campus

Many children have climbed in the branches of the Golden Willow tree and have played in the Magic Grove which is next to the Taos Pueblo land. This nurturing environment provides a place of wonder where students, parents and teachers come together to create an educational experience that is filled with a love of learning and a reverence for nature and life.

We are asking everyone who holds these things dear to help us make this dream come true for the children.

Welcome

Our School

Founded in 1994, Taos Country Day School is an independent, non profit school serving 145 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grades. While embodying the heart and soul of a pioneer school, our program features a Waldorf curriculum, experienced staff, and a strong parent community. Taos Country Day School has thirteen full time teachers and six specialty class teachers. Our curriculum integrates academic studies with art, music, drama and multicultural studies.

Sharing Our Community

Making Ethnic & Economic Diversity Sustainable

We strive to keep our annual tuition low ($6,710) to make our program available to as many students as possible. Our goal is to reflect the ethnic and economic diversity of our tri-cultural community. Twenty-two percent of our students are Hispanic, Native American, African American, South American, and Asian. We also extend free tuition to foster children; currently $20,000 annually. Thirty-five percent of our families receive tuition assistance.

Native American scholarships are essential to support our neighboring Taos Pueblo students and other Native American students. This is a commitment made by the faculty to share Waldorf curriculum and resources.
Foster Child Support has been an ongoing program for the past nine years. We provide annual tuition, language therapy, and other services to children in need.
Outreach to our sister school in Peru is important to our community. Program founders from Peru have visited and shared native dance and music with our students. Their students have attended classes at our school for six weeks, and enjoyed skiing for the first time. Each year, we raise money and send Waldorf school supplies to our friends in Peru. This year they supported our Capital Campaign by hosting a visiting family for a week.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide a comprehensive education based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner that engages and nurtures the child physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

We seek to cultivate each student's individual gifts, to encourage independent thinking and imagination, and to foster a life-long love of learning.

Our goal is to enable students to become balanced, vigorous, life-affirming, and compassionate individuals who are able to meet the challenges of their lives and times.

We advocate respect and understanding of all cultures and the natural environment.

The school provides a non-competitive, physically and emotionally-safe learning atmosphere that encourages community involvement.

Taos Country Day School  •  PO Box 2276 El Prado, NM 87529  •  1 575-751-7750  •  countrydayschool@kitcarson.net