Apple Orchard School

 We are a school of children ages 2.9 years to 6 years located in a renovated barn on Allandale Farm in Brookline. At the heart of our school is a belief that children need to be engaged in play-based learning while immersed in nature. Since we are a school on a farm we spend a substantial amount of time outside running in fields, feeding the ducks in the pond, walking our goats, building with rocks and branches, sledding, and stomping in puddles.

We are delighted to introduce you to our wonderful teachers and unique program. Apple Orchard School is an independent school founded by Lee Albright in 1971 to provide a dozen children a place to explore the farm around them while learning about each other. We have grown in size, but our school’s goals and values remain the same.

While the website provides a great deal of information, we urge you to schedule a visit to our school to experience the buzzing activity of our classrooms and see our children and teachers in action. Inside the school you may see children climbing into a loft space as a superhero boarding her rocket ship, children painting with broccoli stalks, a small group making a chopped salad with lettuce from our fields, a child learning about how to create a map of the school, or a music class with all the children curled up as turtles on the floor.