Thank you for your interest in Ambleside School. Our school was founded in 1999 as an independent, K-8, Christ-centered school. Ambleside is affiliated with a worldwide network of schools, Ambleside Schools International.
At Ambleside School, we believe that God creates each child with a natural hunger for knowledge and that the mind is fed by ideas more than by facts and information. These ideas, which inform our conscience and the choices that we make, find their source in God Himself, and are communicated to us through His Word, through people of the past and present, and through His creation.
We believe that education properly understood is not merely the assimilation of data and technique; it is the mind feeding on ideas given expression in God's creation, great art, beautiful music, and "living books." Real learning occurs when students engage with novelists, poets, philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, artists, musicians, historians, and explorers; they wonder, asking why and how.

It is the mission of the Ambleside administration and faculty to provide what Charlotte Mason called a "living education," where each child is guided and empowered to author a full and free life, a life rich in relationship to God, self, others, ideas, and all of creation. Thus, Ambleside faculty and administration are as concerned with the kind of student each child is becoming, as with the child's mastery of particular data or technique. We are confident that the student who masters the art of learning will attain his full potential for mastering data and technique. Students who master the art of relating well to God, self, others, ideas, and all of creation, will attain the fullness of life for which they were created.
 . . . training students in the art of learning and fueling their God-given hunger for knowledge . . . .