About Hundred Hills

The School

Hundred Hills is a private, nonprofit, co-educational, day school for students in Preschool through Grade 8. It was founded by passionate Waldorf parents, Whitney Stevenson and Sundeep Chanana, with the unwavering support from equally passionate Waldorf educators - Terri Webster, Chinyelu Kunz, and Marjorie Rehbach.

The school's new, intentionally designed, and purpose-built Elementary School campus will be located in Buellton, CA. The school’s curriculum will be wholly rooted in the Waldorf pedagogy, which permeates the child’s entire educational journey with three mutually-inclusive and equally-weighted tenets: developmentally appropriate, academically rigorous, and experiential.

The Impetus

After toiling over local school options like many proud SYV residents, the founders were left longing for something more, something without compromises, something special. In its pursuit, Hundred Hills was born.

The Pedagogy

The educational philosophy was influenced by a reverence for children’s EQ and IQ journeys, which are segmented into three stages, or the three I’s: Imitation, Imagination, and Intellect.

The philosophy manifested in a curriculum that elegantly prioritizes both academic rigor and experiential/kinesthetic learning. The latter weaves the arts and the physical body into cerebral disciplines, bringing basic-to-complex literacy and numeracy concepts to life, which in turn boosts knowledge retention and fuels lifelong learning.

A Waldorf education is arguably more important than ever before in preparing our children for a future that will reward, in all its forms, those who can Think, Create, Do, and Decide contextually, creatively, and critically, all unmediated.