The centerpiece is the Woolman Semester, a single-semester residential program that provides an experiential education in the principles of peace, social justice and sustainability for high school juniors, seniors and post-graduates (gap year).
[4] Students (under adult supervision) are responsible for cooking meals, and cleaning the classrooms and public areas on a scheduled basis.
In the days of John Woolman School, a full complement of classes were offered from biology to creative writing and AP calculus.
Since its rebirth in 2003, the Woolman Semester emphasizes the topics of World Issues, Peace Studies, Environmental Science, and Nonviolent Communication.
The dining hall has half of a welding gas tank, which is struck as a bell to call students and faculty to meals.
Songwriter Kate Wolf visited the school in 1977, and wrote a song called "Fly Away" about the rope swing tree, which appears on her album The Wind Blows Wild and on a DVD of one of her concerts.