Wilberforce At a Glance
Location
The Wilberforce School is located in Princeton, NJ, at the intersection of Route 27 and River Road. Click here for directions. Some of our students and teachers live right down the street, and others drive here from all around the Princeton area - North Brunswick, East Windsor, Plainsboro, West Windsor, Hamilton, Allentown, Trenton, Lawrenceville, Ewing, Hopewell, Ringoes, and Yardly, Pennsylvania.
Our Mission
The Wilberforce School exists to provide a distinctly Christian education characterized by academic excellence and joyful discovery within a classical framework. This means that we both embrace the traditional elements of classical education (such as the trivium, emphasis on the classics, and the study of Latin) and incorporate Charlotte Mason’s teaching methods which take advantage of a child’s natural curiosity and delight in discovery.
Read more about our culture and philosophy.
Our Name
The Wilberforce School is named after William Wilberforce – a leading member of the British Parliament in the 18th and early 19th centuries. With a group of like-minded people that came to be known as “Clapham Saints,” Wilberforce dedicated his life to abolition of slavery and to cultural renewal – in the form of child labor reform, penal reform, education for the poor, the founding of Bible and missions societies, the founding of Sierra Leone as a refuge for freed slaves, the opening of India to Christian workers and countless other efforts.
We see in William Wilberforce a great model for our school’s students:
• Excellent, classical training
• Deep faith in Christ and a thorough knowledge of Scripture and its implications
• Both training and faith integrated together and applied to the great issues of society and culture.
Enrollment
Wilberforce now enrolls 70 students from Junior Kindergarten (Explorers I) through Middle School. Our board members, teachers, and families come from various denominational, socio-economic, and cultural backgrounds. This diversity creates a rich, inter-denominational-denominational, Christ-exalting school community.
Average Class Size
Explorers (Kindergarten) programs: 9-12 students.
Lower and Middle School (Classes 1-7): 9-14 students.
Curriculum
Wilberforce offering a curriculum which is generally at least one grade level ahead of public school, and so provides a challenging pace for most students. In designing curriculum, we make use of classic works and more recent materials and augment the classical framework with insights and activities from Charlotte Mason’s writings.
Recent Test Scores
2005-2008 ERB (CTP IV) Test Results:
- Average National Percentile for Verbal: 92%
- Average National Percentile for Math: 93%
The ERB is the Educational Records Bureau, a division of ETS, maker of the SAT.
Location
The Wilberforce School is located in Princeton, NJ, at the intersection of Route 27 and River Road. Click here for directions. Some of our students and teachers live right down the street, and others drive here from all around the Princeton area - North Brunswick, East Windsor, Plainsboro, West Windsor, Hamilton, Allentown, Trenton, Lawrenceville, Ewing, Hopewell, Ringoes, and Yardly, Pennsylvania.
Our Mission
The Wilberforce School exists to provide a distinctly Christian education characterized by academic excellence and joyful discovery within a classical framework. This means that we both embrace the traditional elements of classical education (such as the trivium, emphasis on the classics, and the study of Latin) and incorporate Charlotte Mason’s teaching methods which take advantage of a child’s natural curiosity and delight in discovery.
Read more about our culture and philosophy.
Our Name
The Wilberforce School is named after William Wilberforce – a leading member of the British Parliament in the 18th and early 19th centuries. With a group of like-minded people that came to be known as “Clapham Saints,” Wilberforce dedicated his life to abolition of slavery and to cultural renewal – in the form of child labor reform, penal reform, education for the poor, the founding of Bible and missions societies, the founding of Sierra Leone as a refuge for freed slaves, the opening of India to Christian workers and countless other efforts.
We see in William Wilberforce a great model for our school’s students:
• Excellent, classical training
• Deep faith in Christ and a thorough knowledge of Scripture and its implications
• Both training and faith integrated together and applied to the great issues of society and culture.
Enrollment
Wilberforce now enrolls 70 students from Junior Kindergarten (Explorers I) through Middle School. Our board members, teachers, and families come from various denominational, socio-economic, and cultural backgrounds. This diversity creates a rich, inter-denominational-denominational, Christ-exalting school community.
Average Class Size
Explorers (Kindergarten) programs: 9-12 students.
Lower and Middle School (Classes 1-7): 9-14 students.
Curriculum
Wilberforce offering a curriculum which is generally at least one grade level ahead of public school, and so provides a challenging pace for most students. In designing curriculum, we make use of classic works and more recent materials and augment the classical framework with insights and activities from Charlotte Mason’s writings.
Recent Test Scores
2005-2008 ERB (CTP IV) Test Results:
- Average National Percentile for Verbal: 92%
- Average National Percentile for Math: 93%
The ERB is the Educational Records Bureau, a division of ETS, maker of the SAT.