Open Enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year is happening now!

We have a small number of openings
in most grades.

Be sure to let your friends who are hoping to enroll their children for next year know this is the date to remember for registration! Most of our classes have space available, but a couple are filling up fast. Student's names will go on a waiting list for any class that fills up. Completing a registration form does not obligate the child to attend, but does reserve a space in a class. As always, siblings of currently enrolled students will have priority to be offered open spaces.

Please call 928-282-0171 for more information.

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Welcome to Desert Star - A Tuition FREE, Waldorf - Inspired Elementary Charter School in Cornville, Arizona
(near Sedona and Cottonwood)

Desert Star Community School offers a Waldorf-Inspired curriculum, enhanced by Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences. The teaching methods meet the needs of the whole child by engaging the child on many levels: cognitive, physical, social, emotional as well as the creative-imaginative. Desert Star’s educational program places a special emphasis on academic learning, sustainable environmental stewardship and provides a variety of multicultural experiences.

The school has designed a program to meet Arizona state educational standards through an innovative approach that is child-centered, meaningful and imaginative. As a progressive Waldorf methods school Desert Star cultivates a spirit of openness and flexibility based in the educational philosophies of Rudolf Steiner.

Our Mission Statement

The mission of Desert Star Community School is to provide an education that considers the needs of the whole child, develops the full diversity of human intelligence within each individual, and instills a life-long love of learning. Our purpose is to inspire and empower students to reach their full academic and creative potential so they may lead fulfilling, purposeful lives and make a positive contribution to the multi-cultural society and world community in which they live.

Why Choose Desert Star School?

Desert Star provides a nurturing learning community that honors and respects the wonder of childhood. In this age of pervasive media and technological influences Desert Star offers a healthy, balanced alternative that draws upon both age-old traditions and cutting edge research to determine how to best teach children and meet their needs.

The Waldorf approach of “head, heart and hands” helps children to integrate and retain what they learn through experiential, multi-sensory and emotionally engaged learning experiences. Our educational methods and curriculum are designed to invigorate the mind intellectually, engage the heart through experiences with creativity, beauty and wonder and to work actively with the hands and body throughout the day.

Gardner recognized that each child possesses a unique blend of intelligences, i.e.: linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Beyond just recognizing a child as a visual, auditory or kinesthetic learner, Desert Star’s approach focuses on “bringing forth” the student’s full potential in each area of intelligence.

Our goal is to provide a learning environment in which children thrive and develop into balanced, creative, confident and compassionate individuals who love learning and have a great deal to contribute to our society and the planet.

Desert Star Welcomes Your Support

Desert Star Community School invites you to become a part of the establishment of a truly remarkable public charter school. Please partner with us in helping to create an exciting and innovative school that brings instruction alive in the classroom and promotes a life-long love of learning.