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Oak Meadow School seeks to provide a caring academic environment in which young people are nurtured and challenged to achieve their highest potential both as students and as human beings.

What is Oak Meadow School?

Oak Meadow School was founded in 1975, by Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Williams, in Ojai, California. Oak Meadow School’s national offices are now located in Brattleboro, Vermont. Our office in Vermont supervises and trains the many Oak Meadow Class Teachers across the country, handles the task of record-keeping for students, develops curricula, and builds our school’s standing in the community of private schools. Oak Meadow School Los Angeles operates by contract with our home offices, as a local branch of our parent school, and in California under a Private School Affidavit with the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Oak Meadow is thus a private school in our state, just like any other private school: we receive, hold, create, and when necessary forward all formal school records for our students; we offer a full curriculum for grades 5-12; we have fully qualified and experienced teachers at all grade levels.

What makes Oak Meadow School unique in the spectrum of educational options in Los Angeles is the fact that all of our students are offered what might be termed “modified independent study” programs. The information included in this website describes more specifically what that means at each grade level; but, in general, “independent study” means that our curriculum is designed to be accomplished with much less direct classroom instruction than a traditional curriculum.

There are, of course, many innovative educational programs in Los Angeles. We feel that the single most significant feature of our school is its size.  We are small by design.

AdmissionsWe strictly limit enrollment in our middle school (grades 5-8) to fifteen students total, under the care of a teacher. Our high school is currently limited to thirty students total (grades 9-12). These limitations are not made arbitrarily; our experience has shown that this is the number of students that we can effectively mentor and teach while allowing no student to “fall through the cracks.”

AccreditationIn January 2003, Oak Meadow School was granted full accreditation by the Commission on International and Transregional Accreditation (CITA). CITA accredits many schools like Oak Meadow (distance learning and independent study), and it is recognized by the major accrediting associations throughout the U.S. and foreign countries, including the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

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