Public relations

If you are a member of the media, we encourage you to get to know Wildwood School. You'll find administrators, faculty members, and students who can speak confidently and with expertise on a wide range of subjects related to education.

Wildwood values its students' security and privacy. We strictly prohibit photography of or filming on our campus without permission.

For inquiries or more information, please contact Bonnie Powers, communications director.

Quick facts

       • Wildwood School was established as a progressive, independent
          day school for kindergarten through sixth grades in 1971. 

       • Our middle and upper schools opened in 2000.

       • The school has two campuses in Los Angeles.

       • Our average total enrollment is 700; we have 300 elementary
          school children and 400 middle and upper school students.

       • Our head of school is Landis Green.

       • Of our students, 22 percent identify as African American, Latino,
          Asian, or as members of other ethnic or racial groups.

       • We have 150 faculty and staff members, nearly half of whom hold 
         advanced degrees.

       • Our low student-to-teacher ratio helps ensure that teachers get
          to know students, both academically and from a social/emotional 
         perspective.

       • Since our first graduating class, 98 percent of our seniors have
         attended four year colleges or universities.

       • Wildwood is the only independent school to receive a prestigious
          Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant to serve as a model small
          school in Southern California.

       • Thousands of educators from across the country have benefited
          from professional development workshops given by Wildwood's 
          Outreach Center.

       • Wildwood is a Coalition of Essential Schools mentor school, and
          was the first to be named a mentor school in California.