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Established
  
1927

Grades
  
K-8

Student to teacher ratio
  
12:1

Number of students
  
225

Head of School
  
Jessica Lee

Enrollment
  
225

Phone
  
+1 202-362-7900

Founded
  
1927

Sheridan School

Campuses
  
Washington, DC Luray, VA

Address
  
4400 36th St NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA

Accreditations
  
Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

School types
  
Independent school, Progressive education

Profiles

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Sheridan School is an independent, progressive, K-8 school in Washington, D.C. The school enrolls about 25 students in each grade for a total of 225. The average tuition for the 2015-2016 school year is $32,475, and 20% of families receive some form of financial aid. About 25% of Sheridan staff and families are from underrepresented groups.

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History

Founded in 1927 as Mrs. Cook's School, Sheridan was later renamed after its original location of Sheridan Circle on Embassy Row. Incorporated as a non-profit in 1961, it moved two years later to its current location on 36th Street, NW, in the North Cleveland Park neighborhood. In 1971, the school purchased a 130-acre Mountain Campus in Luray, Virginia.

Curriculum

Sheridan offers a concept-based, constructivist curriculum based on the principles of progressive education and aligned with national teaching standards including the Common Core State Standards. At each grade level, the school offers:

  • social and emotional learning, based on Responsive Classroom
  • language arts, based on the Columbia University Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
  • mathematics, based on the Singapore Math program
  • social studies
  • science
  • Spanish and French
  • music
  • art
  • physical education
  • outdoor education
  • Mountain Campus

    Sheridan operates an auxiliary Mountain Campus in Luray, Virginia. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the facility includes platform tents, a dining hall, and a nature center. Various team-building activities include a zip line, a giant swing, a climbing wall and a high-ropes course. Each grade engages in the outdoor education program twice each school year.

    Student Activities

    Sheridan competes against peer schools in soccer, cross country, basketball, softball, and flag football. A musical production is performed each spring, and the student council leads school-wide and grade-level community service programs. For the past several years the school has worked with the Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place. In 2013, the school partnered with the Washington D.C. Humane Society.

    High School Placement

    Most Sheridan graduates matriculate to local independent schools. Common high schools after Sheridan include Georgetown Day School, Field School, Maret School, Edmund Burke School, Washington International School, and Sidwell Friends School.

    Notable Alumni

  • Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States
  • Oliver Platt, actor
  • Timothy Shriver, Chairman and CEO of Special Olympics
  • Eva Jinek, Television host and journalist in the Netherlands
  • References

    Sheridan School Wikipedia