Forest Bluff School

We could not be happier with the way Forest Bluff helped each one our three children keep and further their natural curiousity and love of learning. Sometimes people wonder how the transition to traditional high school is after such an ideal experience - all of our children will tell you it was easy. Our first grandchild will start at Forest Bluff next month. Everyone should visit this amazing school!
--Submitted by a parent

I am an alumn of Forest Bluff (from quite a way back). I think of this school so often, and the way it shaped not only my brain but my spirit as well. I owe to this school the way I think creatively, the way I work with my colleagues, and my self-confidence. I was always a little sad for my friends in high school and college, hearing about their discouraging experiences in grade school, when I had such a positive, empowering one. I don't live in Lake Bluff anymore, but if I did, I'd send my kids here in a heartbeat.

I am proud to be both a teacher and a parent at Forest Bluff School. I have been at Forest Bluff for four years and can honestly say that there is no other place like it! I consider myself lucky to teach at a school with a tremendously dedicated parent community and an administration that gives teachers the freedom and support they need to meet the needs of individual children and families. As parents, my husband and I are very happy knowing that our daughter will go to a school where she will be encouraged to reach her full academic potential and will grow up to love learning. Just as important, we feel blessed to have found a group of like-minded parents who are committed to raising their children to be respectful, peaceful, and conscientious members of society.
--Submitted by a teacher

Our family is appreciative for Forest Bluff School for many reasons: The love of learning and reading, emphasis on courtesy, multi sensory learning, freedom with responsibility and the nurturing of creativity. The greatest gift a child receives from our school is the love of learning. It is fostered by letting the child determine, with direction, what they want to study by themselves. Forest Bluff encourages children to read from 1-2 hours a night so by the time they are 13 they are so accustomed to reading and have built tremendous vocabularies. FBS places tremendous value upon common courtesy which is hard for the average parent to reinforce without a school's support. From a young age a child learns through sight, touch, and sound. By learning a lesson with many different approaches it reinforces and builds with each lesson and gives a lesson a multi dimension which is lost in traditional education.
--Submitted by a parent