The school provides alternative education based on the waldorf method which is dedicated to sound education standards. Teaching the whole child to grow and learn in ways that most suit their individual temperments and abilities, utilizing not only the child's thought processes, but also their physical,rhythmic and artistic sense.

The ashwood waldorf school is a learning community for approximately 100 children in grades one through eight. The school also has a program for children eighteen months to five years old in its early childhood center.