to nurture curiousity, creativity, and a sense of wonder
The Montessori Children’s School of Key West is an independent, non-profit, international, school for uniquely gifted students from toddlers through eighth grade.
We are passionate about cultivating your child’s love of learning. Each and every day, our students arrive eager to expand their horizons and unearth new discoveries. They are truly the inspiration for the thoughtful work we do creating a vibrant space to engage in an authentic Montessori curriculum.
Through our multiple international Montessori relationships, we have access to tremendous resources to implement learning methodologies developed and cultivated by some of the foremost international experts in the authentic Montessori way. The knowledge, respect, and self-awareness your children and our future leaders harness here will undoubtedly launch their imaginations, and their quest for happiness and success, in whatever challenges they choose to embrace.
Today’s students need to learn how to learn to be prepared for tomorrow’s world.
The future belongs to those who think outside of the box, solve problems, create new solutions, and get people to work together to get things accomplished.
Our course of study prepares students for both lifelong learning and life. We cultivate each student’s human potential by investing in core values, being people of principle, deep thinkers, life-long learners, balanced beings, responsive friends and citizens, and courageous advocates.
“Whoever touches the life of the child, touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.”
Maria Montessori
Program Levels
Toddlers
Ages 18 months to 3 years
Toddler communities are designed to meet the developmental needs of the very young child and to support the child’s natural growth.
Primary
Ages 3 to 6 years
In the primary years children learn how to learn, developing independence, an inner sense or order, curiosity and concentration.
Lower Elementary
Ages 6 to 9 years
Elementary children have an immense appetite for knowledge; they begin to think abstractly and they have remarkable powers of imagination.
Upper Elementary
Ages 9 to 12 years
Each level is a multi-age community where students collaborate with others of different ages and abilities, learning to accomplish a goal cooperatively. This process encourages the child to contribute ideas, listen to others, and learn to compromise.
Middle School
Grades 7 and 8
We are partnering with the NewGate School’s Global Campus to offer our Middle School students the unique opportunity of learning from and with individuals all around the world.
a different approach
Montessori Curriculum
Our curriculum is based on integrated studies, rather than a traditional model compartmentalized into separate subjects, in which topics are considered only at specific grade levels.
Sensorial Education
These are exercises in perception, observation, fine discrimination, and classification that play a major role in helping our children to develop their sense of logic and concentration.
Practical Life Skills
One of our first goals is to develop in the very young child a strong and realistic sense of independence and self-reliance. Along with love and a stable environment, this is the child’s greatest need.
Language Arts
The process of learning to read and write almost always comes naturally and begins with a child’s first interest. We begin by placing our youngest students in classes in which the older students are already reading.
Mathematics & Geometry
Montessori’s famous hands-on learning math materials make abstract concepts clear and concrete. Students can literally see and explore what is going on in their math studies.
Geography
We are all members of the human family. Our goal is to develop a global perspective. The study of world cultures forms a cornerstone of our curriculum.
Science
Dr. Montessori passed a deep love for the world of nature on to thousands of students through a program of outdoor education, gardening, and camping experiences. We see this as the foundation of a lifelong interest in the sciences.
History
We are all members of the human family. Our roots lie in the distant past and history is the story of our common heritage. Without a strong sense of history, we cannot begin to know who we are as individuals today.