Operating in the free-democratic tradition, Wildcat Community FreeSchool serves children ranging in age from 5-14 years old, K-8th grades. Children at Wildcat Community FreeSchool shape their own learning experiences, and their choices are respected and supported. From sailing and hiking trips to pottery and construction projects, the school provides solid resources for motivated and meaningful learning in the arts, sciences, math, reading, and writing. At WCF, the flow between academics and the real world is obvious and natural.

"The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educator who thinks he knows best. All this interference and guidance on the part of adults only produces a generation of robots. We set out to make a school in which we should allow children freedom to be themselves."

- A.S Neill, Summerhill School