Thank you for visiting the homepage of the Village Free School. Our school is democratically operated, and serves students ages 5 through 18. You can learn more about our school by browsing the tabs in our main menu. Everything from how we work, what we do, and how to apply will be found on this website.

Before you get started checking us out, though, I want to share a simple truth about our school community. Because we are democratic and privately funded, we undergo a lot of change from year to year. This coming year, 2012-2013, we expect to take on a big round of re-visioning, as well as a thorough re-organization of our school. We expect to start up in September with a very different looking program than we are ending with this spring. What comes of it, exactly what we look like, where we’re located, and who’s involved come this fall will be largely dependent on who is participating in the discussion taking place now.

If the Village Free School is being considered by your family as a place of involvement, feel free to contact us to get more information on what it is we're cooking up for next year. Though we expect changes to many of the structures of our school, we do not expect the fundamental values of our community to change.

Our school is, and will always be, a place where the needs of our children are central to our work. At the end of the day a democratic school is nothing more than the sum of its people, and the sum of the agreements they make with one another. As we undergo this process of re-thinking our agreements, we are excited to invite new families in. If you would like to know more about what we are up to, and where we are headed as a school community, please don't hesitate to contact us.

We may have just what you are looking for.

Thank you for reading,

Jack Mesplay
Executive Director
The Village Free School