Amherst Montessori School

We love this school. Our daughter has been going here for ~3 years. The teachers are amazing. It is a great early childhood education. Our daughter comes home happy from school each day and looks forward to school each morning. She is excited to learn. Also, it provides a great foundation for math and science. Just today our 5-year-old daughter said she wanted get a job where she could do scientific research projects! That must have come from school because we have never mentioned anything like that at home (even though I am a scientist :)

My family loves this school! My daughter started in the Young Toddler program at 18 months, and she had never been in a daycare situation before. I was nervous about the transition, but the teachers were so caring and warm that she was immediately comfortable and happy. The staff is friendly and responsive, and the classrooms are bright and welcoming. Even in the younger classrooms, the toys and activities are chosen with care to be fun and engaging while clearly providing the basis for both physical and mental skills.nnSince then, my daughter has transitioned to the Toddler and now the Casa classrooms, and the positive effects of her Montessori experience are extremely evident. She is polite, engaged, focused, and independent in ways that are beyond what you would expect of a child her age. Strangers stop me to comment on how clear and advanced her speech is, and her grandparents and other distant relatives comment on her independence and skill every time they visit.nnMy daughter looks forward to school every day, and when I pick her up she is always smiling. That is the most important thing to me, and the reason we will always be a Montessori family--my daughter is not only thriving, but is gaining a love of learning and a high self-esteem from a school environment that supports her in every way. Truly, I cannot recommend this school enough.

My daughter has attended AMS for four years and it is an incredible school. The guides and staff are nurturing, accepting, and truly gifted. The Head of School is warm and extremely experienced. It is a welcoming community that has become a sort of home for our family.

Our family was nothing less than thrilled with our AMS experience!! Our daughter (just over 4 y.o. at the time) transitioned seamlessly into the Children's House Program after an experience at another pre-school with which we weren't quite as pleased. The space/building is a tremendous learning environment and the staff are somehow even better...truly caring, wholesome, engaged, and invested. Thank you Montessori Family!!!

Amherst Montessori School is a wonderful community of people and a fantastic learning environment for children. We did have a rough Spring due to an unforeseen loss of a staff member. As the incoming President of the Board of Trustees, I can report that we have recovered from this difficult time and are a stronger and more connected community. The Board is a conscious group who operates from a place of awareness and compassion. I have been a parent at AMS for going on three years and have watched my two children develop in to kind, loving, curious little people, with an absolute love for learning. Parenting is a tough job, and I feel so grateful that the staff at Amherst Montessori School are helping us to raise our children. Aside from witnessing my children develop in to extremely happy people, I have also watched them excel academically. I believe this is in large part due to the nurturing environment of the classroom, which allows them to actively learn as opposed to contending with emotional unease. The Guides and Assistants at AMS are an incredibly conscious, mindful group of people and truly understand how to help children develop their minds and spirits.