Amherst Montessori School, Amherst | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

My family is so lucky to have our daughter in the Infant Program at Amherst Montessori. As a first time parent, I felt ready for childcare, but I was apprehensive about leaving her and found it difficult emotionally. AMS made this emotional adjustment for me and my daughter as easy as possible. Amherst Montessori School was not only supportive, but also treated me and my family with such kindness. They answered all of our questions, were informative about the structure of the program and who would be involved in our child’s daily life, and attentive to our potential concerns. After the interview process I had a gut feeling that AMS would be a community that would help our child grow and also nurture her development as a whole person. I felt I had been given a gift in that I could trust the AMS community and myself in knowing that she would be safe and would benefit from the socialization with engaged teachers and peers. Once we were accepted, my husband and I were thrilled to learn she had a spot in the program and are even more thrilled to be a part of the program. The infant room is warm, safe, and open. The teachers, Linda and Kristie, are gentle, attentive, and invested in the children. Our daughter has learned so much from the other children and her teachers. She loves school and actually waves us out the door when she arrives in her classroom each morning. It gives us such peace to know that she is the same happy girl when we pick her up as she is when we drop her off. We are so grateful for our time at AMS and look forward to spending more years in the AMS community.

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.

Since 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.

My 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.