Home Admissions Virtual Tour
Welcome to Park Day School! We invite you to start learning about our K-8 progressive co-ed program by viewing our virtual tour below. School information sessions begin in September, 2022. Weekend Open Houses take place on Saturday, Nov 5 and Sunday, Dec 11.
To register for a school visit, navigate to the Ravenna platform, create an account, search for Park Day School, and select “Explore” or “Apply”. Registration for all admissions events and the entire application process takes place through Ravenna. Scroll down to watch more videos that answer frequently asked questions.
Click below to see our videos responding to frequently asked questions. Big thanks to parent volunteers, Sage and Josh, who made these videos. It takes a village!
Meet Head of School, Angela Taylor, and learn what makes progressive education and Park Day School different from other schools.
We love hearing about what our alumni remember about growing up at Park Day!
As much as possible we incorporate student interest into academic learning blocks to enhance engagement and connection.
Watch what a typical month of learning might look like in grades K-8.
Park Day alumni share how Park Day prepared them for high school, college, and life.
Park Day is fortunate to have a four-acre garden campus in the Temescal district of Oakland, and students go outdoors all the time. There is regular morning recess and lunch recess in addition to outdoor learning garden classes, PE classes, maker-centered outdoor learning, and opportunities for small groups and half groups to study outdoors. Watch a drone video to get a sense of the outdoor spaces.
Learn about how a project featuring equity and justice is tied to the innovation Workshop.
Multi-disciplinary projects that involve research, writing, and hands-on creation represent a classic mode of progressive learning at Park Day.
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By providing opportunities within the curriculum for students to witness and understand the needs of others, we hope they will learn the power of social responsibility and carry it with them their whole lives.
Hear from a Park Day alum reflecting back on the Park Day approach to teaching math:
Spanish class begins in Kindergarten in authentic and engaging ways similar to how children learn their first language in their home: through social interactions, playing games, singing, listening to and reading children’s literature, and by engaging in hands-on projects. A foundation of vocabulary is built with an emphasis on oral language and within a cultural context.
In Middle School, Park Day School competes against other independent and parochial school sports teams. All Middle School students are invited to try out. Everyone who tries out for a sport makes the team, and everyone who attends practice can expect to have gametime.