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Community Montessori School is committed to respecting children as individuals, nourishing them and educating them for peace.
Our goal at Community Montessori School is to provide a prepared environment that responds to the developmental needs of the age group and cultivates each child's unique human potential by adhering to Montessori's principles.
School Motto: Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
We currently offer the following programs: Toddler (18 months -
3 years), Primary (ages 3-6), Lower Elementary (grades 1-3), Upper
Elementary (grades 4-6), and Adolescent (grades 7-9). Our Webb Road
Campus serves the Toddler and Primary Programs, and our Civic Road
Campus serves the Elementary and Adolescent Programs. The campuses
are within walking distance from each other.
We are proud to be one of the oldest and most respected
Montessori schools in the Tampa Bay area. In 2019 we celebrated our
30th anniversary!
The Montessori method embraces a broad vision of education as a
tool for life. Founded on the belief that children possess an
inherent love of learning, it provides a framework for engaging
students in meaningful work and experiences. Montessori education
seeks the formation of children who are independent thinkers and
creative problem-solvers, capable of leading productive,
responsible, and harmonious lives.
Montessori classrooms are known as "prepared environments" with
specially designed materials and learning tools. Because children
develop on different timelines, students work at their own pace,
with teachers providing lessons and guidance at appropriate
intervals. Classrooms operate on three-year cycles, allowing
students to form close relationships and engage in cooperative
learning and mentoring roles.
Community Montessori School opened it's doors at our Webb Road
Campus in the fall of 1989 with two classrooms and an enrollment of
30 children, ages 2 through 5. Our goal was to provide the very
best education for children following the methods and philosophies
that were true to the vision of Maria Montessori. Enrollment grew
each year, and classrooms were added to meet the demand as space
allowed. In 1993, the program was expanded to include an elementary
program for children 6 to 9 years old. In 1996, Community
Montessori School moved the elementary program to a spacious
location around the corner on Civic Road. At this additional
location, CMS was able to add an Upper Elementary program for
students up to 12 years of age. In early 2000, CMS became a
not-for-profit school. It was also presented with an opportunity to
purchase the property that housed and surrounded the Civic Road
campus. The acquisition of this property gave the school the
physical space to embark on the next phases of growth: to develop
an Adolescent Program for students up to age 15 and build a new
campus that could house all levels of Community Montessori School.
In the 2006 - 2007 school year, we completed the first phase of
growth and developed our Adolescent Program. The following year,
the seventh and eighth-year students moved into the newly renovated
Adolescent building located on the Memorial Highway side of our
property. We welcomed more new additions to our Civic Road campus
during our 2007-2008 school year. The Adolescent program planned
and built an incredible organic garden near their classroom. They
have learned about beekeeping and currently maintain two beehives
along with a chicken coop on campus.
I love it here, it's made learning so much more fun I enjoy going to school every day and I'd never think I could say that. The students here are excellent as well they are all so respectful and forgiving!! Thank you, CMS.
- Posted by Student/Alumni - Anonymous
55/21/2016
CMS is a wonderful school with an extremely well-trained, caring and supportive staff. Our two children have flourished here. Community Montessori offers exceptional academic programs and also focuses on a child's social and emotional development such character development and problem solving.
- Posted by Parent - lane.
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