Maple Village Waldorf School (MVWS) is located in a quaint residential neighborhood in Long Beach, California on the previous Emmanuel Presbyterian Church property. After years of renting our space, we are excited to be in the process of purchasing our longtime home. The school was founded in 2008 by a group of passionate parents and teachers who met through a local home-based Waldorf-inspired program. Through outreach, the original group grew to include other educators and professionals, resulting in a larger community effort. They spent three years studying and researching together before forming a Board of Trustees and various dedicated committees. After one year of deliberation, the founders decided that Maple Village would be a private school – rather than a public charter school – in order to be free to offer a true and whole Waldorf curriculum to the greater Long Beach community.

We are an Associate Member of AWSNA, the Association of Waldorf Schools in North America which is a member of CAPSO (California Association of Private Schools), and a Developing Member of WECAN, the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America. We are recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a Green Ribbon School and the City of Long Beach as a Green Business. We also participate in the California Department of Public Health Asthma-Safer Microfiber Cleaning Program.

Maple Village Waldorf School has its home in one of the most diverse cities in the United States. We welcome the wide array of cultures, races, economic backgrounds, cognitive variations, religious affiliations, abilities, gender identities, and sexual orientations represented in the body of our faculty, staff, parents/guardians, and students. We value this multiplicity and consistently work to ensure that the population of our school reflects that of our community, and we strive to cultivate a multicultural curriculum that reflects and meets our students with respect, relevance, cultural awareness, and inclusion.

We celebrate our diversity through seasonal festivities that contribute to the integration and stability of our community. These festivals and holidays help to renew our awareness of the rhythm of the year and relationship with the earth while reminding us of the commonalities between us.