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Environmental Montessori School

40 Saint Josephs Drive, Stirling, NJ, 07980-0792 -

School Notes Overview:

Environmental Montessori School curriculum is based upon the Montessori Philosophy. Dr. Montessori’s aim as an educator was to develop the whole personality of the child through motor, sensory and intellectual activity. The Montessori classroom is a miniature community, where each child, working at his own level, may acquire self-reliance and self discipline. The joint activities of the children foster courtesy, consideration of others, neatness, order and discipline. These activities encourage the acquisition of values from within the child rather than only from without. Actual handling of the Montessori teaching materials in the prepared environment of the nursery school stimulates the child’s learning in Practical Life, Language Arts, Sensorial, Nature and Environment, Movement, Music, Arts and Crafts. The EMS Pre-School program teaches children the basic pre- school skills while stimulating their curiosity about nature, math, science and social studies. Some of the concepts the teachers review are color, shapes, counting, number recognition, matching, alphabet, letter sound relationship, calendar, opposites, seasons, the 5 senses and progress onto spatial relationships, sequencing, visual discrimination, putting sounds together to makes words, simple addition and subtraction, money, time and reading. Children are assigned to groups based on their age, ability and other factors....

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School Overview:

	Environmental Montessori School
School Type	Montessori School
Religious Affiliation	Nonsectarian
Grades Offered	Grades Nursery/Preschool - Prekindergarten
County	Somerset County, NJ
Student Body
Total Students	27 students
Student Body Type	Co-ed
	This School	(NJ) School Avg.
% Students of Color	n/a	32%
Students by Grade
	Pre-K - 23 students
	Kind - 4 students
Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers	n/a
	This School	(NJ) School Avg.
Teacher : Student Ratio	n/a	* Ntl. Public School Avg. » 1:16
School Days in Calendar Year	175 days	180 days
Hours in School Day for Students	3 hours	6 hours

School Notes:

Environmental Montessori School curriculum is based upon the Montessori Philosophy. Dr. Montessori’s aim as an educator was to develop the whole personality of the child through motor, sensory and intellectual activity. The Montessori classroom is a miniature community, where each child, working at his own level, may acquire self-reliance and self discipline. The joint activities of the children foster courtesy, consideration of others, neatness, order and discipline. These activities encourage the acquisition of values from within the child rather than only from without. Actual handling of the Montessori teaching materials in the prepared environment of the nursery school stimulates the child’s learning in Practical Life, Language Arts, Sensorial, Nature and Environment, Movement, Music, Arts and Crafts. The EMS Pre-School program teaches children the basic pre- school skills while stimulating their curiosity about nature, math, science and social studies. Some of the concepts the teachers review are color, shapes, counting, number recognition, matching, alphabet, letter sound relationship, calendar, opposites, seasons, the 5 senses and progress onto spatial relationships, sequencing, visual discrimination, putting sounds together to makes words, simple addition and subtraction, money, time and reading. Children are assigned to groups based on their age, ability and other factors.
Profile last updated: 01/28/2009

School Zip Statistics:

About This Zipcode (07980)	School Zip (07980)	(NJ) State Average
Population (Approximate)	2,499 people	8,413,990 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree	46%	36%
Population Average Age	38 years old	36 years old
Average Household size	2.8 persons	2.7 persons
Median Household Income	$71,250	$57,061
Avg. # of Rooms in Household	6.6 rooms	5.6 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure	46 years old	46 years old
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% Owning / % Renting	72% / 28%	62% / 38%