High School Curriculum Overview

The academic focal point of a Waldorf high school is the main lesson, a two-hour concentrated lesson at the beginning of each school day. Each main lesson block presents one of the "core subjects" (English, mathematics, history, or natural sciences) for a period of three to four weeks. Each student makes a main lesson book in each main lesson block, rich with original writings and illustrations.

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Ninth Grade

Biology
Probability
Geometry
Geology
Literature: Moby Dick
Physics
Chemistry
Modern History
Tragedy & Comedy
History through Art

Tenth Grade

Biology
Drama
Geometry
History
History through Art II
Physics
Trigonometry
Greek History
World Geography
History through Poetry

Eleventh Grade

Biology
Shakespeare
Ecology
History
Literature: Parzival
Physics
Chemistry
Romantic Poetry
Projective Geometry
History through Music

Twelfth Grade

Biology
Drama
Botany
History
Economics
Physics
Chemistry
Transcendentalists
Russian Literature
History through Architecture

Evaluation System

The high school faculty does not utilize grading as a form of evaluation, instead focuses on our more comprehensive narrative reports. Four times a year, high school students and their parents receive a written course description and student evaluation for each course taken. When a student applies to college, the high school guidance department sends each college a transcript of credits earned and a complete set of excerpted reports from the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades as well as a detailed curriculum description.