List of democratic schools

This is a list of some of the current and former democratic schools around the world. This list also includes sub-branches of democratic schools such as Sudbury schools inspired by the Sudbury Valley School and certain anarchistic free schools that align with the broad principles of democratic education.

Australia

New South Wales:

Currambena School Lane Cove, Sydney NSW

Queensland:

Brisbane Independent School Pullenvale, Brisbane QLD

Victoria:

Alia College Hawthorn East, Melbourne VIC
Preshil Kew, Melbourne VIC

Brazil

Escola Lumiar (São Paulo)

Canada

ALPHA Alternative School (Toronto)
Mont-Libre Agile Learning Centre (Montreal)
Rochdale College (Toronto) (closed)
SEED Alternative School (Toronto)

Germany

Neue Schule Hamburg

India

Walden's Path (Hyderabad)

Israel

Democratic School of Hadera (Hadera)

New Zealand

Auckland Metropolitan College, Mount Eden, Auckland (closed December 2001){{Cite web|url=http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?products_id=554|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040325021834/http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?products_id=554|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 25, 2004|title=Daring to be different: The rise and fall of Auckland Metropolitan College|date=March 25, 2004}}
Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery, Central Christchurch (It is not a democratic school but it is a special character school. Their educational principles are very democratic, but they still have grades, exams and a curriculum. The difference between a traditional and Ao Tawhiti school is that students at Ao Tawhiti school choose the classes they attend.){{cn|date=July 2024}}
Tamariki School, Woolston, Christchurch

Portugal

Escola da Ponte (Vila Das AVES)

United Kingdom

Currently open:

Sands School (Ashburton, Devon)
Summerhill School (Leiston, Suffolk)

Former democratic schools now closed:

Dartington Hall School (Devon)
The Family School (SW London)
Kilquhanity School (Kirkcudbright)
Kirkdale School (SE London)
Malting House School (Cambridge)
Rowen House School (Belper)
Risinghill School (London)
Scotland Road Free School (Liverpool)
The Small School (Hartland, Devon)

United States

California

Deep Springs College (Deep Springs)

Illinois

Shimer College (Chicago){{cite web|url=http://blog.shimer.edu/shimer/2010/02/the-shimer-college-assembly.html|title=The Shimer College Assembly|date=2010-02-08|work=Blog.shimer.edu|accessdate=2012-09-22|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517123818/http://blog.shimer.edu/shimer/2010/02/the-shimer-college-assembly.html|archivedate=2012-05-17}}

Indiana

Harmony School (Indiana){{cite thesis|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/AAI27999173|title=21st Century Democratic Schooling: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Harmony School|date=2020 |publisher=Indiana University |last1=Korth |first1=Chelsea Elizabeth }}

Maine

Liberty School (Blue Hill, Maine)

Maryland

Fairhaven School (Upper Marlboro)

Massachusetts

The Group School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mission Hill School (Closed)
Sudbury Valley School (Framingham)
Warehouse Cooperative School

New York

Albany Free School (Albany)
Brooklyn Free School, Brooklyn, f. 2004
Lehman Alternative Community School (Ithaca)

North Carolina

Arthur Morgan School (Burnsville)

Ohio

Oregon

Adams High School (Portland) (closed)
Village Free School (Portland)

Pennsylvania

The Circle School (Harrisburg)
The Delta Program, a program within State College Area High School (State College)
Philadelphia Free School
Three Rivers Village School (Pittsburgh)
Upattinas School and Resource Center (Glenmoore) (closed)

Vermont

Goddard College (Plainfield)

Virginia

The New School of Northern Virginia (Fairfax)

Washington

The Clearwater School (Bothell)
Goddard College (Port Washington and Seattle)

West Virginia

The Highland School (Highland)

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