About
Montessori School of Waukesha
Founded in 1964, Montessori School of Waukesha (MSOW) is the oldest and largest Montessori school in Waukesha County, as well as Wisconsin’s only American Montessori Society-accredited Montessori school. Over the years, the school has built a solid reputation of excellence in the field of early childhood, elementary and adolescent education. Each year the administrative staff receives requests to provide visitation and observation opportunities for local high school and technical college early childhood development students, college education students, and Montessori training institute students. In addition, school leaders and school district leaders often come to, "see what Montessori is all about."
MSOW currently has thirteen mixed age classrooms. Children aged 18 to 36 months old are in one Pre-Children’s House classroom. Children aged 2.5*/3 years to 5K are in one of five Children’s House classrooms. Each of the four Lower Elementary classrooms is designed for 1st-3rd grade students. Children in 4th-6th grade join one of the 3 Upper Elementary classrooms and students in grades 7-8 are in the Middle School Program.
Pre-Children’s House offers a five-day morning program. The School District of Waukesha sponsored 4k students attend Monday-Thursday mornings, with the option to add Fridays for a fee. All academic programs 5K-8th grade run full day, Monday through Friday. Wrap care is available for purchase for all levels and includes options for lunch and afternoons (PCH-4k), before school and afterschool care. We are a community partner school for the School District of Waukesha for 4k-8th grades.
Our school is situated on a nine-acre wooded campus off Summit Avenue in Waukesha. Our Main Campus building contains academic classrooms, a library, an art room, an indoor gymnasium, and performance stage. Campus West building houses administrative offices, our middle school program, classroom space for music and violin, and is home to the Global Montessori Educators Institute (GMEI) Teacher Education Program. On our grounds we have three different outdoor play/learning spaces and a greenhouse.
