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.