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Thaden School
800 SE C Street
Bentonville, AR 72712

479-268-5321

info@thadenschool.org

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Why Thaden? 2023 Niche Best Schools

 

Our Independence

 

As an independent school governed by its own board of directors, Thaden is free to teach to its own mission and educational goals. This freedom allows our faculty to be more innovative and responsive in tailoring educational programs to needs of our students, the opportunities of the moment, and the demands of the future in a rapidly changing world. The spirit of independence also burns brightly in our students as they develop the skills and confidence to think and act for themselves.

Leadership

Our Campus

 

Designed by a nationally renowned team of architects, our campus is itself a teacher that sparks curiosity, inspires creativity, and invites reflection. As students move through the course of the day, they encounter a variety of architectural spaces and landscape features that enhance their learning while creating an enduring and enriching sense of place.

Campus

Our Faculty

 

Recruited from all parts of the United States and many parts of the world, our educators bring to our campus a passion for and mastery of the subjects they teach and the ability to educate, inspire, and mentor young people, inside and outside of the classroom. The diverse talents, interests, regional identities, and backgrounds of our faculty create a learning environment that empowers students to think expansively and imaginatively about their potential and the course of their journey in life.

Our Faculty

Our Students

 

By virtue of our Indexed Tuition program and small class sizes, we offer a learning culture in which students of many interests, aspirations, and backgrounds can share and explore different points of view under the guidance of nurturing, even-handed educators. As our students discover their common ground and learn from their differences, they grow better prepared for life and citizenship in a nation founded upon a shared commitment to the value of civil debate and diversity of thought.

Student Life

Our Curriculum

 

Our core curriculum not only provides students with a broad foundation in the sciences and the humanities but also teaches them how to integrate disciplines and understand their dynamic connections. Our commitment to interdisciplinary problem solving also finds rich expression in our three signature programs — Wheels, Reels, and Meals — where students combine multiple fields of study and engage with community partners in ways that foster a strong sense of civic responsibility. Intensives and other forms of independent study as well as Community-Based Learning (CBL) courses provide further opportunities for students to form and investigate their own questions from many angles.

Our Curriculum

Recent News

Blackwell Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
May 19, 2023

Marlon Blackwell, a U of A Distinguished Professor and Fayetteville-based architect, has been elected as a member to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences — joining a list that includes such luminaries as Alexander Hamilton, Duke Ellington, Eudora Welty and Albert Einstein.

Bentonville Film Festival 2023 Announces New Categories (Democrat Gazette)
May 9, 2023

Mr. Petrick, a part of our Film Education Faculty, and his students played a major role in developing the adventure category for the Bentonville Film Festival.

Thaden School Master Plan Receives 2023 AIA Honor Award in Regional and Urban Design (University of Arkansas)
February 28, 2023

The master plan for Thaden School, an Arkansas project planned and designed by EskewDumezRipple, Marlon Blackwell Architects and Andropogon Associates, has won a 2023 Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects. Blackwell is a Distinguished Professor of architecture and the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at the U of A.

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At Thaden School, the diversity of our learning community is essential to the quality of the education that we provide. In keeping with this principle, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or other protected classes in the administration of our policies, practices, programs, and other matters.