Sudbury Valley School

Boy, am I glad we're here! This is the original Sudbury model school, and the largest in the world. Each Sudbury school uses a self-governing process, many following a town-meeting model and...

Children flourish here, where they learn the most important skills of all: autonomy, accountability, and how to be themselves in a world that would prefer for them to be quiet and to sit still.

I am a former student of SVS and unfortunately I cannot be proud of this affiliation. During the years I attended and afterward I witnessed some blatant hypocrisy and violations of the school's...

Our 3 children have been at SVS for 6 years and we couldn't be happier. They are happy, confident, eager to learn, entrepreneurial. They are respected at school and feel a part of this great...

I love SVS. My 13 y.o. son reads, researches, argues a point with evidence, builds, plays music, notices changes in the nature around him, interacts in deep and meaningful ways with peers, creates...