Montessori Academy of Temple Terrace, Tampa | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

This school is great for academics, they focus on getting kids ready for Kindergarten and beyond. Teachers are good too.

This is not, however, a Montessori accredited school, and not all Montessori principles are implemented. No mixed-age classrooms, busy work with the focus on learning how to read and write even if kids don’t enjoy the work because they have a “curriculum” to follow. This school worked great for us for a year but once the new school year started and my child was moved to a different room because of age, he started hating school complaining about the work given to him. I spoke with the teachers and they told me that in the sensitive period he was (movement) I needed to place him in extra curricular sports activities because they don’t include physical activities in their program unless you pay more for gymnastics or Zumba. I was also told that Montessori wasn’t for every kid, and that they had a strict curriculum/standards to follow… maybe they need relearn how and why the Montessori Educational Method was created before saying something like that and charging Montessori tuition.

My daughter loves this school. She is learning so much. She is already singing, knows colors and animals! She is only 2 yo.
We are speaking 2 languages at home and she is learning on top of English, Spanish and Chinese at school. They are helping them to draw, learn songs with them, dances.

They teach them discipline, not showing cartoons, no one is yelling and they have a cool anti bullying solutions! I went to other schools, and was in shock.

I completely support their solution on calling parents and notifying their concerns regarding children’s health! There are other kids! They need to take care of them and make sure that they all will be healthy.

Ms Kathy is very helpful as well. Any time I had a questions…about ANYTHING (!) she would help me and explain.

I know that I don’t need to worry about my daughter with them…and I’m one of the panicking moms…it’s not easy for me to trust my child to anyone. But I know that I can trust them.

This school has no ethics and the code of conduct on their website its all fake, I went on Thursday to check if there is a space for our two daughters, but the director was not there and the admin told me they will call me to confirm, she called me at 12 and she confirmed and we agreed that they will start after a week , and told her I will stop by on Monday to bring the registration documents with the check to pay the fees , she called me on Monday morning and told me your spot is gone coz someone already came on Friday and they paid the registration fees. I am not sure what kind of education this school will give to your kids when they don’t have any ethics. I am glad that my kids are not at this school and I would rather put them in public school than having them in this school.