Founded in 2000, Waldorf School of New Orleans offers a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education, integrating the arts and academics for children from preschool through 8th grade.

Waldorf pays tribute to each developmental stage of childhood and protects the "fantasy stage" of early childhood above all (until the child is developmentally ready for academic learning), while Montessori aims to pull children out of that fantasy and show them the ways of the real world.

Waldorf educates the "whole child" and includes course work in eurythmy, handwork (i.e., knitting and sewing), and music.

In 2016 WNSO bought its first property at 2010 Peniston St, New Orleans, La 70119 and opened an Early Childhood Center.

This system of shared governance supports the development of a strong, healthy community from which students learn and grow.