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Our Perspective on Westmont Montessori School
Offering a Montessori education from Preschool to Grade 12, Westmont Montessori School is located alongside 143 acres of parkland. Not surprisingly, kids at Westmount spend a lot of time outside, whether it’s hiking, bouldering, or mountain biking in the park, exploring rock pools on the adjoining beach, or gaining practical skills in the on-campus gardens. The school offers an array of inspiring and fun extracurriculars that include a Mandarin club, band, chess, STEM, mime, and table tennis. The school has bright, modern classrooms and outdoor learning shelters. While kids at Westmont tend to excel academically, teachers also focus on fostering independence and a passion for learning and developing new interests. This exciting and dynamic environment when combined with dedicated and caring teachers provides the ideal place for kids to thrive.
Video reviews
Get crucial behind-the-scenes information about Westmont Montessori School from video interviews with probing questions that we recorded live with parents, current students, and recent alumni.
Watch our alum interview with Hannah Smith to learn about the unique experience of attending Westmont Montessori School.
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Written reviews
Dive deeply into the real culture of Westmont Montessori School with reviews we’ve structured to highlight only the most valuable insights and opinions submitted by parents, students, and alumni.
We have 2 children at Westmont Montessori, 6th and 7th grade, ages 11 and 13, respectfully.
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My experience of school leadership is that they are committed to and invested in continuing to improve the school and its curriculum and overall student and family experience. I have found them to be open to feedback and they ...
We have found the teachers to be highly invested in students and our kids. They communicate via email often. They are always accessible. Our oldest is a 7th grader and she came into the school during a very dynamic age for sev...
Both students have been challenged academically this year. Coming from a different school in a different country (USA) with different curriculums we were intentional to know what was being taught to both of our daughters. My w...
Westmont offers lots of extracurriculars proactively but also welcomes any new programming that is of interest to any number of students and seeks to create a structure for it. Track and field, chess, various music classes, so...
The school goes from early years through high school, all on the same campus which I find to be really unique and really quite cool. Daily kids of all ages and age spans are playing together on the field - middle schoolers and...
Both girls have really enjoyed their Westmont experience. Specifically, my seventh-grader appreciates the opportunity to have a say in how daily school life goes. For example, middle schoolers desired the ability to go off cam...
The community is where the magic is. In my first year of Westmont I have come to know many families and what I experience is a collection of thoughtful, conscious parents who are intentional about their parenting. Sure, we all...
We LOVE the location. That's one of the reasons we chose the school. It backs up to provincial land and forest and trails that lead to Witty's Lagoon which empties into Juan De Luca straight, Pacific Ocean. It is a beautiful b...
Admissions was a seamless experience. We interviewed the school in the spring of 2021 while we were still living in Florida. In fact, we had to choose a school without ever stepping a foot on campus or meeting the administrati...
My children love this school. They adore their teachers and have a sense of pride and ownership...
In my experience, the school leadership has been consistent and fair. My children enjoy chatting with the head of school and respect and appreciate their teachers. I have had nothing but good experiences with communication fro...
The teaching at Westmont is unlike anything I have ever known before. The students take accountability for their learning from an early age. They have great respect for their teachers and the teachers seem to respect them as i...
I think the academic program at Westmont school is far superior to the experience I had growing up. I think that the children are taught to be thoughtful, and productive, and generally internally motivated.
My father-in-law ...
I think this is an area where the school is growing, and while it has certainly had its challenges in this pandemic life, I think we have seen some great activities. My son is loving participating in the chess club and soccer ...
The number one thing that comes to mind when I think about the student body is community. It amazes me that middle school students know my kindergarten students' names. I love that the students interact with one another in mea...
My children love this school. When there have been closures they have been quite upset. They are always excited to get back to class after any scheduled breaks.
My children also talk about school a lot when they are at home. ...
Prior to COVID, parents were absolutely encouraged to participate in the school as much as possible. I felt that there was a great parent community and that all parents were welcome. It has definitely shifted a bit since the p...
I LOVE that the kids go to school in a forest. They get to climb trees, learn about nature, walk to the beach and generally exist in a peaceful place. It is safe, it is away from traffic and city noise. My children have a deep...
At Westmont, my daughters have felt safe, nurtured, and valued as individuals. They appreciate ...
The Westmont teachers and staff are highly dedicated and committed. Not one of them is there just to pull a paycheck. They take an active interest in my daughters' welfare and the principal greets them personally every morning...
My daughters' teachers at Westmont have been completely supportive, knowledgeable and passionate throughout their attendance. At every stage, they have demonstrated the greatest caring for children that I have known. They have...
The academic program at Westmont spans a wide gamut from mathematics to current events. I have been able to experience this so far from their preschool program through Grade 7, and am impressed with their ability to convey dif...
Westmont is a small school and while this provides a cozy, intimate atmosphere, renders extracurricular activities challenging simply through the difficulty of achieving critical masses of numbers of interested students. Never...
This is what initially attracted me to Westmont. My wife and I were visiting the school to evaluate it, and I was strolling through the playground. On the swings was a girl of around kindergarten age. Nearby were two girls of ...
My daughters are happy and excited about their time at Westmont. The quality of life there is driven primarily by relationships: with the teachers, the staff, and with fellow students. The teachers create such a safe and nurtu...
The parent community at Westmont is amazing! This is a group of people who by and large are highly successful, resourceful, and capable; but not only that, they expend a not inconsiderable amount of their valuable time in supp...
The school's location is amazing! It backs onto a park area that is forested and leads past a spectacular waterfall down to a secluded beach area which forms a destination for the students to hike to on a roughly weekly basis ...
My daughter is always thrilled to attend Westmont - she literally runs to school every single d...
The leadership at Westmont is astounding! First and foremost, the school heads stand outside every morning to greet all of the families on the way into school. This not only makes them a significant part of our daily interacti...
The teachers at Montessori are all beyond wonderful! From our experience, the teachers are very passionate about the Montessori philosophy and teach accordingly. They are very inclusive in communication and update parents thro...
To date, we have only attended Montessori for a couple of years. However, our experience in academics has been phenomenal. The reach of what the children are taught and exposed to is outstanding! Just recently the school intro...
I think the extracurriculars at the school are plentiful. From soccer to volleyball, to Mandarin, to coding, to art, and more, there is no shortage of extracurricular activities Westmont students can participate in. These extr...
The general atmosphere of the student body is inclusive and caring. Most students in a variety of grades know each other since a three-year age gap is grouped together in each classroom. This gives the students the opportunity...
Our daughter loves going to school! She is always so happy to be there and enjoys learning and participating so very much. We think Westmont goes above and beyond creating a quality of life for its students like no other. The ...
Our tenure of the school has taken place during the years of COVID. That aside, we believe the greater community of the parent body is just as wonderful as the rest of the school!!! Parents have plenty of opportunities to be i...
We absolutely love the location of the school!! Having waterfalls and a forest be part of the stomping grounds of students is so magical. The children even have an outdoor classroom set in the forest - can’t say that for mos...
