School Profile

The Souderton Charter School Collaborative is a learning environment that values and nurtures every child as an individual. Together, parents and faculty are developing an individualized learning program to fully develop each child's potential. Parents, community members and professionals are encouraged to interact with and learn from one another and to participate in the learning process, creating unique opportunities for each child to pursue personal interests.

Our goal is to offer a proven and innovative learning environment in which all learn cooperatively. It offers choices to community members by allowing you to choose a fundamentally different type of school. The children are becoming individuals who are confident in their abilities to adapt to a changing environment and shape their futures.

The school emphasizes the following:

Learning by doing: Research shows that children excel when involved with meaningful, hands-on activities. Your child's interests will be engaged with exciting projects that, for example, could focus on the local environment, community and nature.

Parent/Community Partnerships: A partnership among parents, teachers, and community members is encouraged and nurtured so your child's educational environment can be individualized, adaptive and continually improving. The school is a learning organization for everyone involved.

The Collaborative proudly opened its doors in September, 2000. Initial grade levels started with K-5 and each year one grade level has been added. Student to teacher ratios in each homebase are less than 12:1. Multi-age groupings allow for more individualized instruction. For example, one homebase may combine children in grades 1 and 2. The school also strives to allow children from different grade levels to work on projects and other activities together, to encourage further multi-age groupings.