About Sequoyah School
Vision and Purpose
Since its founding in 1958, Sequoyah School has offered a progressive education with an emphasis on experiential learning, civic engagement, and social and environmental justice. The school’s program fosters a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that encourages wide-ranging inquiry, student agency and self-reflection. The emphasis on the integration of arts, humanities, field studies, math, and science in a project-based curriculum extends into high school.
Sequoyah’s students are encouraged to develop an active intellectual life, to become participants in their own education, to become self-reliant, responsible, creative individuals, to practice non-violent methods for resolving conflict, and to value themselves, each other, their community, and the diverse communities of the world.
The school’s exceptional program is continually informed by the diversity of the school community and the recruitment and professional development of faculty and staff passionate about students’ academic, social, and emotional growth.
A Sequoyah education challenges the mind, nurtures the heart, and celebrates human dignity.
History
Founded by educators, scientists, ministers, and civil servants, Sequoyah began as a K-6 school, expanded to junior high in 1978, and added a high school in 2016, graduating its first Senior class in 2019.
While the past decade has seen significant growth, the school’s founding ideals remain central. The community embraces the founders’ vision of constructing a more just world through education.
Today, Sequoyah continues to offer a progressive education with an emphasis on experiential learning grounded in social and environmental justice. The curriculum fosters collaboration, inquiry, student agency, and self-reflection through interdisciplinary, project-based learning that integrates arts, humanities, field studies, math, and science.
