page_title: The Walden School (Media, Pennsylvania)
section_title: Permanent Home
hierarchical_section_title: The Walden School (Media, Pennsylvania) / History / Permanent Home
caption_attribution_description: English: The main building of the Walden School, formerly the home of the Sandy Bank School.
context_page_description: The Walden School is a nonprofit independent Montessori School in Media Pennsylvania. Educating students from Preschool and Kindergarten through Elementary and Middle School.
context_section_description: As part of their 30th Anniversary a Capital Campaign was begun to raise funds to purchase a permanent campus. In 1998 Walden came to an agreement with the Rose Tree Media School District to purchase the former Sandy Bank School. After extensive renovations, the first classes began in September 1999.
  In 2003 it received full accreditation by the Pennsylvania Association of Private Academic Schools today Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools.
  After an assessment of needs, the School embarked on an ambitious multi stage expansion plan in 2006. This plan would have added new classrooms and multi-use spaces. However the Financial Crisis, with its associated decline in enrollment, forced those plans to be placed on hold. Only the front facade was completed, having already started prior the downturn. The remaining stages are no longer being pursued as the priorities of the School have changed.
  Mary McKeon was named as the Head of School in the Summer of 2010.
  In 2011, Walden became the nation’s first Fair Trade School for pre-K through 8th grade.
caption: The main school building.
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