The History of the Montessori
Children’s School of Key West

The Montessori Children’s School of Key West is a non-profit organization incorporated with the state of Florida since 1972. It is a cooperative enterprise administered by a volunteer Board of Directors consisting of parent and community members. Board members are elected by and from the Corporation members (parents/guardians of students). The Montessori Children’s School of Key West began as a parent run school located across the street from our present location. It was a shotgun house that parents poured time and love into to create a unique learning environment for their children to grow and develop. What began as a one-classroom school has since developed into five classrooms serving ages 18 months to 6.

We are currently located on a corner block in “old town” Key West. We have six buildings on our campus, two of which are recognized as historical by HARC. Our classroom Directresses are Montessori certified and each classroom has a Directress and assistant. We are fortunate to now have students in our school whose own parents attended the school when they were children. We have been an active member of our community and will continue to be for many years to come.

Parents Handbook

Hurricane Procedure

When there is a tropical system coming towards the Keys, we follow the Monroe County School system advisories for school closures. When the public school system closes, we do also. Most of our windows are shuttered, but we do need help to put up plywood for the main office, as well as in a few other locations. We need a small group of people to help secure the property when we close the school due to weather. If you have an extension ladder that would reach some of our upper windows, that would be very helpful for us to use on campus. Some of our latches for the storm shutters are in ill repair and need to be worked on also. Please let us know if you can help in this manner.