Montessori Schools
11 schoolsA private 1–8 Montessori school with mixed-age classrooms and student-driven, mastery-based learning in a tight-knit community.
Portland's leading AMI-certified Montessori (PK–8), serving toddlers through middle school with the full Montessori sequence and Great Stories curriculum.
A Catholic Montessori school (PK–8) on a 10-acre campus, with multi-age classrooms and ecology woven throughout the curriculum.
Oregon's largest public Montessori charter (K-8), with AMI-trained guides, multi-age classrooms across 3 Gresham campuses, and a 4-day school week. Middle schoolers run a working greenhouse, go on multi-day expeditions, and operate a student micro-economy; younger students learn through long, uninterrupted work cycles and daily neighborhood walks to parks and the library.
A private AMI-affiliated school for ages 3 to 12 where children stay with one guide through each 3-year cycle, on a 6-acre wooded campus built around the Montessori classroom by architect Thomas Hacker.
An all-outdoor program for 2.5-10yr olds. Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio-Emilia woven into a forest day with a steady shape: songs and ASL at Welcome Circle, long open exploration, a story with snack, and a Goodbye Circle to share the day.
A two-campus Montessori program with AMI-certified Guides from Toddler through 6th grade, then a 7th–8th grade farm-based Middle School on 12 Milwaukie acres with goats, a creek, and a student-run micro-economy.
A K–8 Jewish day school using a Montessori-style personalized, whole-child approach alongside Hebrew and Judaic studies.
Tuition-free public Montessori for K–8 in North Portland: 3-year multi-age classrooms with 1 lead and 1 assistant, middle schoolers in a 2-teacher humanities and math cohort, and an anti-bias stance the school funds and names.
Oregon's first and the Pacific Northwest's longest-running Montessori program (PK–6), on over an acre with multi-age cohorts, cultural studies, and gardens.
AMI Montessori from 15 months through Grade 6 on 2 campuses, with every lead guide AMI-trained and Spanish, music, and drama specialists on staff.
Waldorf Schools
7 schoolsA private K–8 Waldorf school teaching academics through storytelling, art, music, and movement — screen-free, nature-connected, with a sustainability focus.
A Thursday-morning enrichment series (grades 1–4) bringing homeschool students to campus for Waldorf-rooted creative and practical arts, screen-free.
A tuition-free Waldorf K–8 where subjects are taught in 3 to 4 week blocks instead of daily periods. Students knit, sew, and learn woodworking, study Spanish from 1st grade, and go outside twice a day plus a weekly hour of park play. No screens in the early grades and a junk-food-free campus.
An all-outdoor program for 2.5-10yr olds. Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio-Emilia woven into a forest day with a steady shape: songs and ASL at Welcome Circle, long open exploration, a story with snack, and a Goodbye Circle to share the day.
Shining Star Waldorf's outdoor Friday: a Waldorf rhythm of circle, singing, poetry, and story carried outdoors, then a full day of foraging, building, and creek exploration in all weather.
A small K–8 Waldorf school on a 4-day week, screen-free and arts-integrated, with an optional Friday outdoor day in Portland-area parks and one of the lower tuitions among local Waldorf schools.
A two-campus Waldorf school (PK–8) — a village school and a working farm — with main-lesson blocks, handcrafts, farm-based science, and animal care.