Wingra School

Specialties

Wingra School is a small, independent day school providing a progressive education for children ages 5 – 14 in the greater Madison area.

History

Established in 1972.

The school was founded in 1972 by parents and teachers seeking a high quality educational experience alternative for their own and others’ children. The founders — five women with considerable experience in fields of education and child development– were particulary influenced by a version of progressive education.

Wingra School has always featured a thematic, integrated curriculum and multi-​aged classrooms equipped with materials appropriate to children’s varied interests and abilities.

Meet the Manager

Paul B.

Manager

Head of School (B.A. and Teaching Credential, Western Washington University, Graduate studies Earlham College University of Washington, and Antioch University Seattle) Paul started as an innovator in education early. As a teenager in Ann Arbor, he helped organize and launch an alternative high school, which he then attended as a senior.

Paul has extensive teaching experience and, prior to joining Wingra School, was Head of the Little School in Washington State for fourteen years. He has served on several not-​for-​profit boards, including that of the Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools.