About Us
Wake Forest Montessori Pre-School was founded in 2006, by a group of passionate educators and business people. The school is dedicated to upholding the right of every child to progress at his or her own pace, in their own individual way, and to be provided with the tools needed for their physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development.
Wake Forest Montessori is recognized by – and exceeds the requirements of – the North Carolina Department of Social Services and is registered with the North Carolina Department of Corporations. We are a private school providing academic programs by qualified teachers.
Licensing
Wake Forest Montessori currently operates only 2 half time (less than 4 hours per day) programs in the morning and the evening. As we do not provide full time care, we are not required to have a license with the North Carolina Division of Child Development.
From the state website:
Any child care program or arrangement consisting of two or more separate components, each of which operates for four hours or less per day with different children attending each component.Read More
The Montessori curriculum, unlike nearly every other curriculum found in child care centers and schools in the Triangle, requires that children not be segregated by age, with 2 year olds in one class, threes in another and 4′s in another. The curriculum dictates that age appropriate groupings such that 0- 36 month-old children are in one class (Infant/Toddler), while 36 months to 6 years are grouped in another class (Preschool/K). The curriculum has proven that younger students learn by watching older students and older students learn by teaching younger students. The state’s current mandates of having teacher-student ratios that conform to the youngest child in the class does not afford Montessori schools and educators the ability to optimally facilitate a Montessori classroom.
For instance, a Montessori classroom with 25 kids containing twenty-four 5-year olds and one 2.8-year old would have to have 4 teachers/instructors per classroom. In our case we would only have 3 teachers yielding an 8-1 ratio versus the states suggestion of 6-1 that would only accommodate the one 2 year-old. That’s why 99.9% of all out of the home Montessori programs have two components where the 1st is less than 4 hours per day. And the 2nd is child care based that falls under a license and adheres to state requirements for age restrictions but is not an academic component.
We service families in the following zip codes:
27587 preschools | 27614 preschools | 27588 preschools | 27596 preschools | 27616 preschools | 27615 preschools and all surrounding neighborhoods within a 30 mile radius.
Montessori vs Traditional Preschool
