JOIN US FOR GIVE STL DAY ON MAY 8, 2025


Will you make a commitment to St. Louis this year? Saint Louis Sudbury School needs your support! Saint Louis Sudbury School is Missouri’s first Sudbury-model school, established in 2019. Our school is based on the principle that we are born curious and learn best when we initiate our own learning. We offer fully Self-Directed Education in a self-governing democracy for students age 5-18. With no coercive curriculum, homework, grades, or tests, Saint Louis Sudbury School students have the freedom, space, and time to pursue their interests, discover who they are, and develop life-long communication and decision making skills. All of this freedom to learn and to be is bounded by school rules and policies developed and maintained by the entire community. Young people and adults help run the school together!

This year, we hope to raise $500 to support our Tuition Assistance Program. Nearly 60% of Sudbury students receive tuition assistance and the school plans to provide about $50,000 in tuition assistance in the coming school year.

Will you help us reach our goal with a minimum donation of just $10?

Early Giving begins April 23!

Your contribution helps ensure that students throughout the St. Louis region have access to a unique educational choice—one that prioritizes young people’s well being, intrinsic motivation, happiness, communication and decision making skills, and ability to adapt to a changing world.

Are you ready for a school where young people experience the freedom of childhood, learn what brings them joy in life, navigate being a responsible member of a mindful community, and have the time and space to pursue interests that are meaningful and memorable? This is Saint Louis Sudbury School! 

At Saint Louis Sudbury School, life is learning and learning is life. 

We rely on volunteers, board members, young people, and partner organizations who donate their resources, time, ideas, and leadership, to keep this unique learning community thriving and open to a diverse group of families. We are deeply grateful for your support!

"Sudbury has given me the space to find my real self." -- Saint Louis Sudbury School student

On a single day in May, the St. Louis region comes together to collectively support over one thousand local nonprofits. On Give STL Day, every St. Louisan has the opportunity to join their friends, neighbors, and coworkers by making a donation to the nonprofits that do so much for our community.

What is Give STL Day?
Give STL Day was created by the St. Louis Community Foundation in 2014. In its 10+ year history, Give STL Day has:

  • Raised more than $34 million for thousands of local nonprofits.

  • Ignited the spirit of charitable giving in more than 160,000 donors.

  • Generated more than $11 million in matching funds.

  • Awarded more than $1.9 million in cash prizes to participating organizations.

Sometimes you see a turkey in the yard?! 🦃 Spotted at morning drop-off! Students ran outside to watch and took photos. This led to a discussion about birds that fly and don’t fly. 😊 #learningiseverywhere
What did two Saint Louis Sudbury School students do over Spring Break? 🌷 They organized personal fundraisers to benefit their school! 🥰 Watch their video and learn about what they did to raise money, what they like about Sudbury, and a conflict tha
🥶 We had an unexpectedly cold day at the park but still managed to have an amazing discussion about intentional vs habitual tech device use. 💙 We talked about how using personal devices make us feel; what it feels like when we see people on them a
Sudbury student art! ❤️ At Saint Louis Sudbury School, young people are free to explore art for as long as they want to and how they want to as long as they do so while respecting our community. There are no preset projects, rubrics, or evaluations.
Sudbury moments from a field trip to the @stlzoo! 🐍 🐸 🐾 Without a preset lesson plan, Sudbury students made decisions among their small groups about what animals they wanted to see, how to schedule their time, how to stick together, how to read a
😊 Ceramics teaching artist Jill Kuanfung showed us her amazing artwork today! Sudbury students love learning about clay, sculpting, glazing, and more in Jill’s ceramics class. Students recently voted to have ceramics classes in the upcoming sc
🌤️ Sudbury students have the time and space to practice self-awareness and to make decisions on how to regulate themselves. Sometimes you’ll see students choosing to meditate, rolling each other up in mats for compression, being close with fri
Join Sudbury International’s free webinar and hear from five graduates of different Sudbury schools in a roundtable discussion. Discover how self-directed, democratic education shaped their lives and careers, ask your questions, and explore whe
🎶 School Meeting recently said yes to buying a new guitar pedal that was shipped to us from Japan! The pedal was packaged in pages from a Japanese newspaper which led to a fascinating afternoon of Sudbury students researching Japanese music, charact
Sudbury students help manage the School Meeting checking account! This includes confirming purchases, balancing the account, learning how to create formulas in spreadsheets, and updating the School Meeting account dry erase board with the latest avai
Did you know? ⭐ By having an enormous amount of autonomy, trust, respect, and responsibility while caring for their community at Saint Louis Sudbury School, Sudbury students develop unique skills that help them navigate life. Sudbury students are oft
🌎 Learning at our school is sometimes not obvious in a conventional sense, because we do not have tests, grades, homework, or assessments. Yet, we do challenging things everyday! 🎭 Recently one of our students took the initiative to share her inte
Spotted at Nebula (@nebulastl)! 😄 Saint Louis Sudbury School parent, Nathan, had a productive time at this amazing coworking space just a few blocks from our school. Sudbury families are eligible for a special discount off monthly drop-in membership