Waldorf schools

Bauhaus de la Montaña

Tenjo, Colombia

Levels not confirmed

The country’s first “forest school”, about thirty minutes from Bogotá, with a project that unfolds across 90,000 m² of native woodland. Its own philosophy — “conscious education” — draws on Danish and German forest schools and on alternative European pedagogies.

CES Waldorf – Corporación Educativa y Social Waldorf

Bogotá, Colombia

• Early childhood

A non-profit corporation working with Waldorf pedagogy in the Sierra Morena sector of Ciudad Bolívar, in south-western Bogotá. For more than thirty years it has accompanied children, young people and their families with educational, artistic and cultural programmes in vulnerable communities.

Colegio Campestre Montecervino

Chía, Colombia

• Early childhood
• Primary
• Middle school
• High school

A well-established school community with more than twenty-five years behind it, set in open countryside on the Bogotá savanna, about thirty minutes from the capital. It offers a full path from preschool to grade eleven, for around 175 pupils.

Colegio Flor de Kore – Movimiento Waldorf

San Francisco (San Pancho), Mexico

• Early childhood
• Primary

A Waldorf kindergarten and primary school in San Pancho, on the Nayarit coast. Its proposal is “an education to awaken, not to fill”, where the teacher sets out to awaken the child’s soul.

Colegio Waldorf Isolda Echavarría

La Estrella, Colombia

• Early childhood
• Primary
• Middle school
• High school

One of the longest-running and most influential Waldorf institutions in Colombia, south of the Medellín metropolitan area. A private school offering formal education in three cycles — preschool, básica and media — on a single daily timetable.

Colegio Waldorf Luis Horacio Gómez

Cali, Colombia

• Early childhood
• Primary
• Middle school
• High school

The first Waldorf school in Colombia and the leading one in the west of the country, in the traditional, countrified neighbourhood of Pance. It accompanies pupils from preschool through to secondary in a rural setting on the edge of Cali.

Colegio Waldorf Rudolf Steiner

La Estrella, Colombia

• Primary
• Middle school
• High school

A school in the municipality of La Estrella that carries the name of the founder of anthroposophy and holds closely to the original lines of this education. Its pedagogical model is built around the three septennia and accompanies pupils to grade eleven.

Escuela de la Aurora – Pedagogía Waldorf

Quilmes, Argentina

• Early childhood
• Primary
• Middle school

The first Waldorf school in Quilmes and in the southern Greater Buenos Aires area. It grew out of the hopes of a group of Quilmes families and opened in 2009; today it is a non-profit civil association with more than 160 pupils. Jardín de la Aurora is its early-years level.

Escuela Waldorf Juana de Arco

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Early childhood
• Primary
• Middle school
• High school

A long-standing institution in the heart of the City of Buenos Aires, offering an integral educational space grounded in anthroposophy. It accompanies the whole school journey, from the early years through to secondary.

Fundación Inti Huasi Casa del Sol – Waldorf Bogotá

Bogotá, Colombia

• Early childhood
• Primary

An institution in the Nicolás de Federmán neighbourhood of Teusaquillo, recognised for a warm and inclusive atmosphere centred on whole-child development and on learning through art, handwork and contact with nature. The Fundación Inti Huasi Casa del Sol runs the project and coordinates its academic and administrative work.

Jardín Cuarto Creciente – Escuela Waldorf

Florida, Vicente López, Argentina

• Early childhood

A kindergarten in Florida, Vicente López, with a clearly defined identity grounded in Waldorf pedagogy. It puts free play first, along with artistic and sensory experience and strong bonds between teachers, children and families.

Jardín Rudolf Steiner

Florida, Vicente López, Argentina

• Early childhood

The early-years level of the Colegio Rudolf Steiner in Florida, the first Waldorf school in Latin America. It is part of a wider project — private, co-educational and secular, teaching English and German — covering early-years, primary and secondary levels.

Semillas del Sol – Comunidad Waldorf del Sur

Banfield, Argentina

Levels not confirmed

A non-formal educational space in Banfield, working from a Waldorf perspective and growing since 2012. Through the day the children have class with their main teacher and then subjects such as music, art, gardening or movement.

Waldorf Bahía

Bucerías, Mexico

• Early childhood
• Primary

A not-for-profit school community grounded in anthroposophy, made up of families and teachers seeking the whole development of the child — body, soul and spirit — with the cycles of nature woven into the learning.

Waldorf Pacífico

Bucerías, Mexico

• Early childhood

The first Waldorf initiative in Bahía de Banderas, in Bucerías, offering an educational alternative built on freedom in education and Waldorf-inspired learning.