Montclair Cooperative School is an independent, non-profit, co-educational school committed to experiential learning located in Montclair, New Jersey.
The school enrolls approximately 175 children from nursery through eighth grade.
Founded in 1963, it is one of a handful of cooperative schools nationwide.
Each year we graduate poised, articulate, empathetic, creative, and intellectually flexible young adults who enter the finest private and public secondary schools in the area, the strongest evidence for the positive impact of our program.
The Montclair Cooperative School is a community of learners
(Nursery through 8th Grade) in which children are invited to take
risks, question, explore, discuss, interpret, and create. They
discover ways to apply learning effectively in solving problems and
constructing new knowledge. We value diversity and understand that
the world is composed of different people, cultures, and ideas. We
arecooperative in that everyone - teachers, students, and
parents - participates in the educational process. We
are progressive in that children learn by building on
multi-disciplinary themes and experiences. The Montclair
Cooperative School is a community of students, teachers, and
parents who are dedicated to creating a nurturing environment where
children flourish intellectually and where they develop exceptional
social skills along with a deep sense of community
responsibility.
Grades: PK-8 | 277 students6.2 miles 388 South Livingston Avenue Livingston, NJ 07039 (973) 992-1587
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At the Coop, the children get a lot of individualized attention and the community is small and warm. The curriculum is thematic and project-based; very creative and focused on values like community and caring for the earth. My kid just loves going to school every day! She learned to write in PreK and read in K because she's so motivated by the fun teachers and involved projects. They do dramatic play, keep journals, build with blocks, garden, paint, and papier-mache.
- Posted by Parent - BM from Rutherford NJ
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Decades ago private schools could have been accused of being elitist. You had to have money to attend. The student populations were fairly homogeneous. Fortunately that has changed.
The average private school tuition in Essex County, NJ is $21,968 for elementary schools and $18,036 for high schools (read more about average private school tuition across the country).
