Cobblestone School
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Cobblestone School, a progressive, alternative private school in Rochester, NY. Founded in 1983, it believes in the philosophy of child-led learning, where the student determines the subject matter to be studied, instead of the teacher assigning subjects. Cobblestone is a very small school, numbering under 100 students in the Pre-K-8 grades. It is located near a public high school that has an emphasis on the arts, and many of the students continue on to this school after graduating. Cobblestone does not administer standardized tests or grades, instead issuing a portfolio for each student with the teacher's comments on the student's development. Grade levels are combined, so the Kindergarten and 1st grade, 3rd and 4th, 5th and 6th, and 7th and 8th grades, occupy the same classroom. The student to teacher ratio is around 12 to 1. Rose Martin, the second director of the school, is the wife of the children's book author Rafe Martin.
