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16245 Westside Hwy SW
Vashon, WA, 98070

206-466-7398

The Vashon Green School is a place-based multi-age learning community located on 7 acres of farm and woodlands, on Vashon’s Westside. We offer a hands-on, hearts-on embodied curriculum rooted in practices that promote social intelligence and connection to the natural world. Our curriculum seeks to provide children with tools and support for living a full, balanced and creative life by giving equal value to each of the four windows of knowing: feeling, imagining, sensing and thinking. Mentors honor each child’s unique gifts and learning styles, supported by our small mentor-student ratio. VGS children, mentors and families journey together to create a learning community rooted in compassion, connection and gratitude.

2023-2024 Tuition Structure

There are two classes per week for students ready for a stronger academic structure and curriculum geared towards 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th-grade levels in language arts. This tends to break out into age groupings but not necessarily.  For ease, this group will be called the Orcas. The Orcas will have an earlier start time on Mondays and Wednesdays beginning at 8:45 am with Amy Mercer in the library/tutoring lab space. The class will be 45 minutes of grammar, writing, vocabulary and comprehension strategies. There will be homework assignments given .  

Students not attending the extra morning classes are called the Otters.

The Otters and Orcas will all come together for the opening circle at 9:30 am Monday through Thursday.   All students will continue individual or duet tutoring sessions with Amy Mercer on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 am -12:45 pm. 

 Please note there is a different tuition structure for Otters and Orcas due to extra class time for the Orcas

 Tuition:

$8,800.  ~  Orcas

$8,300.  ~ Otters


Financial aid is based on Vashon Green School’s commitment to equity in education.  The current tuition amounts are already less than what it takes to run the program in an effort to make the school more accessible. We rely on fundraising for all scholarship and financial aid funding.  If you can pay more than the base level tuition and want to support our mission of equity in education, please email me to set up a different payment plan.  There is also a donation button on the website.