Berkwood Hedge School: Summer Tours - inquire about space in your grade today!
We are offering Rolling Admission tours throughout summer on both our K-4 Lower School, Bancroft Campus and our 5-8 Middle School, Hill Campus. Tours are for Rolling Admission applicants with a September 2025 start date. Tours for the 2026-2027 school year will begin in October 2025. Rolling Admission tours are by appointment only. You may register for a tour by contacting our Director of Admission, Kemmeo DaSilva. We'll see you soon!
Just a short walk from Downtown Berkeley BART, Berkwood Hedge School, now in its 80th year, is an award-winning progressive independent school serving students in kindergarten through 8th grade in the heart of Berkeley.
Berkwood Hedge School excites, inspires, and engages students with an innovative and relevant program featuring an interdisciplinary curriculum, differentiated structured literacy, applied mathematics (now offering Algebra 1 in our middle school), woodworking, engineering, K-8 Latin language instruction, outdoor education, and a robust fine and performing arts program. Built upon our 80 years strong foundation, we cultivate the leaders our world needs now and in the future.
Berkwood Hedge School: A Bird’s Eye Perspective
- Founded in 1946
- Average class size 18
- Student to teacher ratio: 8:1
- First racially integrated independent school in the East Bay
- First school countywide to earn certification as a Green Business
- 47% students of color
- 73% of our faculty hold advanced degrees
- Award tuition assistance to 52% of our families
- Berkwood is BARTable, 30 minute commute from San Francisco
See Berkwood Hedge School Moments of Meaning: https://youtu.be/vlcrv5p5HVA?feature=shared
Parents share why they #LoveBerkwoodHedge: https://youtu.be/De4xOex9cgQ?si=9blvxYsB0MJXTTo5
Our Middle Schoolers share why they #LoveBerkwoodHedge: https://youtu.be/7ibzEUlbww8?si=PZ6eFLN7WG2Uc8Pn
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Take a Virtual Tour of our Lower School Campus: https://youtu.be/9mJq_hd4TCU
Email to set up a tour!
Kemmeo DaSilva, Director of Admission and Outreach