Whittle School & Studios - Washington, DC Campus

Whittle School & Studios is the first truly global, modern school for children in Pre-K3 through 12th Grade. We offer a global education across a network of modern, thoughtfully designed campuses around the world; a carefully developed progressive curriculum rooted in interdisciplinary and experiential learning; and an unequaled advising system to provide a personalized education. Immersed in a second language, students learn to develop both their cultural and language proficiency to be ready for college and the workforce of the future.

In Fall 2019, our first two campuses opened in Washington, DC and Shenzhen, China. Within a decade, we will expand to a global network of schools in the world’s leading cities. With design inspiration from renowned architect Renzo Piano, these campuses will be engaging environments where students can pursue their passions and achieve their highest potential. Flexible workspaces, theaters, on-campus accelerators, makerspaces, and robotics and coding labs will ensure that education extends beyond classroom walls. Each campus will also include residential dormitories for local and regional boarding students, as well as for those studying abroad from other Whittle campuses. Each Whittle campus will serve approximately 2,000–2,500 students with approximately 150 students per grade.

Our core academic curriculum is rigorous and comprehensive — science, technology, engineering, math, humanities, global and local history, creative arts & design — and integrates best practices from schools around the world, with careful consideration for what is required by the education codes and college entrance exams in each of the countries in which we operate.

Aligned with Whittle pedagogy, our Studios programs are thoughtfully designed to integrate with our full-time program, enabling students to go deeper into an existing area of interest, or to explore something new. They usually take a creative, multidisciplinary approach to learning, providing a multitude of on-campus and city-wide experiential learning opportunities as well as resources globally within or beyond the system. They are accessible for both Whittle and non-Whittle students from ages 3-18.

As Founder and CEO, Chris Whittle says, “We want to change for the better the lives of those students who attend and, beyond our own campuses, contribute to the cause of education on every continent. We measure our merit not through the narrowness of exclusivity but through the breadth of our impact.”

Our hopes are high, and by them we are bound together. We are creating an extraordinary and unique school. Whittle School & Studios is the first truly global and modern institution serving children from ages 3 to 18. We not only want to improve our students’ lives, but we also hope to contribute to the cause of education on every continent.

We measure our success not through the narrowness of exclusivity but through the breadth of our impact. Pioneers in education who have come before us have taught us that a modern school knows that the way students learn will outlast what they learn. We understand that the social and emotional development of every child is different, and we work with students to help them blossom and grow at their own pace—we don’t force kids into lock-step and one-size-fits-all education.

We believe that learning happens everywhere and all the time. That’s why we see an ingenious facility as an on-going lesson in design, that the digital age can be used to help students learn beyond the four walls of the classroom, and that school schedules and calendars need to be reconceptualized.

Our graduates will stand out. Grounded by rigor and knowledge, they will be undaunted, creative and bold, ready to lead or help in the wholly transformed and challenging world of their future. Each will shine in at least one passionate, purposeful pursuit in which they will achieve excellence, and as a result, lifelong confidence. All students will speak other languages and study in other cultures, yet remain deeply connected to their homelands.

Our faculty will be learners too, side by side with our students. We’ll choose those that want to guide children, and have demonstrated distinction in their academic discipline. They’ll choose us because our global scale brings them unequaled opportunities for professional development, and our rewards for them are more commensurate with the great good education brings to society. We thank those who have generously supported us, and we look forward to sharing our work with all who aspire to reimagine education.