Our School

Our Mission is to Prepare Children for Life.

We celebrate each child’s individuality and help them discover how they can best contribute to our world and culture. All children are naturally curious and love to learn; we support this innate drive by providing environments that meet children’s developmental needs, guided by a staff of loving and well-prepared adults and building a community of families that actively support our mission.

Life at Montessori Central School

From the first day your child walks onto the Montessori Central School campus, he or she will encounter a wealth of inviting learning materials and a true sense of having “all the time in the world” to explore, alone or with new friends. The teacher’s respectful guidance provides a secure foundation for learning driven by your child’s interests and curiosity.

Life here is lived at the child’s pace, offering plenty of opportunities to become deeply engaged with scientifically designed learning materials in language, mathematics, development of the five senses, practical life (the skills of everyday living), and culture (art, music, world studies). Long, open work periods allow children to freely choose an activity, work until they are finished, and then replace it on the shelf, ready for the next child. Order and beauty are embedded in the indoor and outdoor environments, developing the children’s aesthetic sense as well as their concept of “a place for everything, and everything in its place.”

At Montessori Central School, the indoor and outdoor environments connect seamlessly. Nature comes inside in the form of flowers to arrange, small animals to care for, and classroom plants to nurture. The outdoors is an extension of the Montessori classroom, where children can collect rock specimens to study or leaves to identify.



Fresh air and sunshine inspire big work: digging in the garden, caring for our sheep, climbing on the play equipment—all in the company of good friends. The natural environment rewards patience with glimpses of colorful birds and butterflies. It affords endless exploration and discovery as well as a lovely setting for a community meal and sing-along. Above all, it provides daily opportunities to grow in responsibility, independence, and love and respect for all living things.