This article explores the identity and image of a Waldorf school in a poor rural community in Central Philippines. The school strives for great ideals. The article examines whether these ideals are supported and implemented by its teachers and students (identity), and how they are perceived by outsiders, e.g. teachers and students at a nearby public school (image). The internal identity appears to diverge from the external image. Within the Waldorf school, the ideals are known, lived by, and reproduced (as cultural capital), but beyond its boundaries the school remains the odd one out. The sustainability of one particular ideal -- to have students from different socioeconomic backgrounds in the same classroom, all feeling at home (school belonging) -- is coming under pressure. While the Waldorf school is situated on the same village road as the local public school, they are, in a way, worlds apart.