Montessori School of Encinitas

"We loved this school, but left a few weeks ago because we moved out of the area. Our oldest daughter (now 7, a 2nd grader) went to school here since she was 9 months old and our youngest daughter (now 4, in Pre-K) since she was 3 months old. We had children here for almost 7 continuous years. We felt that all of the staff truly liked kids and cared about our children. My wife and I both feel that our daughters developed 'special' relationships with a number of their teachers. We kept our children here when a number of similarly priced options were more convenient. We also felt like the school always did so much with their resources - from field trips to local destinations, to parents' nights out, to trick or treat or singing carols in the shopping center, to seasonal themes, to events focused on learning about people from different parts of the world, to summer programs, and impressive end of the year plays there was always a lot going on in addition to the basics of running a school. To the commenter who remarked on and seemed frustrated by the fact that English is not the first language of many of the teachers on staff - we saw that as a plus, particularly given the number of different languages that were spoken by the staff. To have our children, from the beginning of their lives, learn to obey, respect, learn from, and care about and be cared about by people who looked and sounded differently than their parents was a positive to us. I won't claim that there were never miscommunications or that we didn't all have to work harder at communicating at times, but it was worth it. In terms of it affecting our children's ability to learn, it didn't. Our older daughter was very well prepared for kindergarten and has a genuine enthusiasm for learning. Our younger daughter has another year before kindergarten, but she's following along in the same path. This place was great for our kids, and we were sad to go. I highly recommend it."

"My son attended there a few years ago and the teachers/directors did not speak good English and were always hard to understand, so I could only imagine what it was like for my son trying to learn words that were not said proper. Also when I got his "progress report/class work" There were 3 misspelled words from the teacher. After I saw those misspelled words I pulled him out. Montessori was expensive I expected more education from the teachers."