First established as a single experimental classroom within the structure of one of the public schools in Yerevan, our school was initiated in 1994 to bring Waldorf education to students in Armenia. Soon, the number of Waldorf classrooms increased to include all grades from the 1st elementary up to the 10^th grade of high school (the last grade of high schools in Armenia until 2008). In 2004, the experimental period completed with the conclusion of the RA Ministry of Education to have a Waldorf school outside of the network of public schools. In December 2005, the newly created International Independent Pedagogical Initiative NGO officially founded Aregnazan Waldorf School based on the already operating Waldorf classrooms and a well-established curriculum. The NGO is currently the sole owner of Aregnazan. On November 23, 2007, within a tenancy contract signed with the RA State Property Management department, Aregnazan was able to rent the school building at 23 Saryan Street for a period of 30 years.

While this new status gave the school undeniable autonomy and the right to collect fees from parents, it also deprived it from all types of state support. Over the past years, we have been fortunate enough to have a dedicated and highly engaged staff, friends, parents, graduates and alumni.

Today, Aregnazan is an independent, non-public school with a complete school program (grades 1-12), with several adjacent classrooms – 20 in total – and with around 700 students and 60 teachers. There are several extracurricular and after-school programs functioning within the school. Aregnazan continues to flourish, while at the same time becoming increasingly overcrowded for its ever-increasing number of students. Several classrooms are being housed in former teachers’ rooms, in areas in adjacent buildings, which were not originally built to serve as a school. For that purpose, we are planning to move forward with our dream of building a new school campus in Kasakh, a village adjacent to Yerevan.