Montrose Christian Montessori School

MCMS is a gem of a school. My son is in his third year (as a kindergartener) and my daughter her first (preschool). From the moment we walked onto campus my son was welcomed and treated with respect and love. All of his teachers have been fantastic! they understand the Montessori teaching method and have strong classroom management skills. As a kindergartener my son is now reading at a second-​grade level, doing multiplication and will soon be starting division. He understands the concepts presented to him. My daughter loves her classes as well. The community is one of Montrose’s best kept secrets. We will be keeping our children here for years to come.

Our 3.5 year old has been attending this Montessori School for the past 3 months and it has been great. Most mornings he literally runs to school because he cannot wait to get there!
The teachers are so great, so happy and caring and the owners have been very generous towards us! Great people who seem to truly love kids.
He is in a great class with some children who are slightly bigger and some who are younger. There is a lot of ethnic diversity which we love as we want our son to have a very broad education!

Unfortunately both my kids attended this school for two years and I must say that in those two years, I did not receive a single email or flyer in attempt to communicate school events and activities. The school is run by an unprofessional and seemingly uneducated couple who are not only clueless about education, but more particularly about the Montessori system. They are schrod business people who purchased this school several years ago with the sole intention of making money. For the most part of the two years the lock on the school gate was broken and despite repeated parent complaints, it never got addressed. Most of the teachers are also very unhappy about the mix of kids they are forced to teach in one classroom as my son was with two-​year olds at the the age of four. If you like paying big dollars for an outrageously expensive babysitting service that calls itself a school sinfully under the name of Christianity and you enjoy feeling insignificant and left in the dark, this may be the perfect school for your children.

Teachers and staff are nice. The montessori curriculum is awesome as long as the teachers teach with it. But, when school gets out, parking is hard to find unless you are the first 10 people.

If your child is in about 3~6^th grade, I wouldn’t recommend this school. It goes behind in education for 3~6^th grade but also there is some problem with friends and bullying. My child came to me crying on the 4^th week of school. I was very shocked. I was crying with my child because I trusted this school. I was so mad about this situation. so I went to talk to the teachers but couldn’t solve the problem. Only way to solve this problem was to move my child out of there. The school has a very small court. I do not even know how they exercise there. There been a lot of complains to the school. I do not recommend this school.

Wow, I don’t know how I found this small school, but it is truly a gem. I just transferred my child from a top-​rated public school to this small, family-​like private school. There is a new owner who has set the spirit of the school to be based on nurturing the child’s self-​esteem and character. Also, unlike public schools, the teachers will advance a child to the highest academic level possible. The teachers are very loving. There is a hot lunch that is delivered daily. The first grade class has 14 students and two teacher. And best of all, the tuition is very reasonable! If I knew about this school earlier, I would have definitely started them off at the preschool level. It may not be the «prettiest’ school but this lack is totally made up with substance.