“There is little value in knowing plants, animals, and minerals (and STUDENTS!) unless one can find the stars working within EVERY one of them.”

Our Students

Building Belonging: Why We Serve, Who We Serve, and the Future We’re Creating

For the Ones Who Dream: Healing, Belonging, and the Power of Inclusive Education

At The WorldCommons School, our student population reflects the vibrant, complex tapestry of the human experience. We are a home for learners who represent a broad range of identities, abilities, and cultural backgrounds—students who have too often been marginalized by conventional systems of education. While we serve all children, our commitment is profoundly toward those whose brilliance and potential have been overlooked, ignored, or suppressed. This includes youth across intersections of race, gender identity, economic status, learning differences, and emotional needs.

Our dedication to supporting historically marginalized students is not incidental—it is central to our purpose. Rooted in the belief that every child is a sacred question posed by the universe, we design learning environments that affirm identity, foster belonging, and champion justice. This commitment is expressed through our low student-to-teacher ratios, student-led inquiry, integrated support services, and a curriculum that centers equity, environmental consciousness, and social transformation

"To truly know the world, one must look deeply within their own being, and to truly know oneself, one must take real interest in the world.”

We serve the students we do—those from historically marginalized communities—not because they are broken, but because they have been persistently underserved, underestimated, and unheard. At The WorldCommons School, we recognize the systemic injustices that have long distorted the landscape of American education. We do not accept these inequities as inevitable. We serve this population because we believe in the transformative power of love, justice, and radical inclusion.

We serve them because they are the future—and the present. These students carry ancestral strength and untapped brilliance, even as they navigate systems that were not built with them in mind. They deserve a learning environment that not only affirms who they are but dares them to imagine who they might become. We choose to serve them because their liberation—intellectual, emotional, and spiritual—is inseparable from our shared liberation.

We serve this population because the traditional model of education has too often valued compliance over creativity, silence over expression, and standardization over humanity. At our school, we flip that paradigm. Our students design curriculum. They ask big questions. They lead. They are not passive recipients of knowledge but architects of a better world. We serve them because we know that when given the tools, space, and relationships they need, they will build something extraordinary.

"If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.

We serve our students because, in a nation where political discourse increasingly denies their existence, restricts their truths, and criminalizes their identities, schools must be places of refuge and resistance. In this political moment—where diversity is attacked, inclusion is politicized, and equity is treated as a threat—we choose to stand on the side of humanity. We choose our students.

We serve this population because empathy is not innate—it must be cultivated. In every classroom, we teach emotional literacy, compassion, and the power of community. Through culturally responsive pedagogy, interdisciplinary exploration, and daily practices of reflection, we help students become not only scholars, but citizens of conscience. We believe the world doesn’t just need smart people—it needs kind, wise, and courageous people.

We serve them because their questions, their voices, their dreams are sacred. We serve them because the purpose of education is not to mold them into what the world demands, but to equip them to reshape the world itself.

This is why we serve the students we do—because we see them. Because we believe in them. Because we know that when we center those who have been pushed to the margins, we create a school—and a society—where everyone can thrive.