Mission

White Clay Learning Center offers an academically challenging and meaningful education. We achieve this by utilizing a custom-created, socially and environmentally responsible curriculum, which we call unit-themes. We believe that it is an essential tool in creating excitement, excellence and love in many degrees, in the learning environment of our school. We integrate this meaningful curriculum with our children's experiences. 

White Clay Learning Center is an independent, Quaker private school (see www.cciu.org) located in West Grove, Pa, serving students in  Kindergarten through eighth grade (K-8).  Our small class size approach to education reflects a philosophy that combines the best of home schooling and a classroom approach to education. See 

www.homeschoolumbrella.org, 
www.homeschooling-delmarva.com, and 
www.educationrevolution.org or email delawarehomeschooler@groups.msn.com) 

It is our mission at White Clay Learning Center to 

•  teach each child as a unique individual and create a learning program, which will meet their needs and allow them to thrive in their intellectual, emotional and social development.

•  nourish each student’s spiritual growth by reflecting on our abilities and celebrating our differences.  

•  include and empower our children to help make a difference in our community today and throughout their lives.  

Basis

We at White Clay Learning Center believe that education should be an ongoing experience that connects us to our world and fills us with a deeper understanding of the role each one of us plays in the universe.

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Foundation

“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”  

John Gatto

Location

The school is located in West Grove, Chester County, in southeastern Pennsylvania.

It is close to and welcomes students from Avondale, Toughkenamon, Kennett Square, and Delaware County in Pennsylvania and Newark, Hockessin, North Star, and Pike Creek in New Castle County, Delaware.