Park West Montessori School

My son has been in this school for two years. He learns so much and is happy in school every single day. We love the fact that the children go to Central Park every day including cold days. The staff and teachers are WONDERFUL! The teachers love and care about the children and they are so good at guiding their behaviors. We love the school community.

DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE!
You would think 25 degrees is too cold for your toddler to be playing out side right? No this pre school will take your kids out in the cold  to play unless it’s 20 degrees outside (by law). Then You wonder why your child has this bad cough or how did they catch a cold or get really sick! This is horrible and inexcusable! A child’s health and safety is number 1 at all times!

All the teachers who have taught our son have been warm, caring and kind. He loves going to school and spending time with all his teachers and classmates. We feel very lucky to have found such a nurturing environment and welcoming community!

My daughter went to Twin Park for 3 years and love the teachers and staff. She's always asking about all the teachers and loves to run into them in the neighborhood.

The best private nursery school in the city!  The entire team are the most intelligent and dedicated group of people you'll ever meet.  They truly care.

My son attended here for three years. Overall it was OK, but at times I felt their commitment to the Montessori philosophy was greater than their attention to the needs of the individual child. For example: their literature said that the Phase-in (ie 2-year olds being dropped off at school for the first time) was &#34;gradual and at the pace of the child&#34;. This was nonsense. Our actual experience was that on Day1, parents stayed for a few hours if they wanted. On Day 2, they were told that they could not enter the classroom at drop-off and that the &#34;phase-in was over&#34;. My son usually handled separation quite well, and I was a fulltime working parent who had no intention of hanging around the classroom, but for a 2 year old going into a large noisy room full of strangers, to tell him he had to go in by himself and I was not allowed to enter, before he had acclimated himself to the place, was not a good idea and also not what we had been told. The school placed him in the 3yo to 5-yo class, with about 25 kids, and for the first time he did have difficulty adjusting, and cried most days at dropoff. If they had allowed me to just go in for half an hour at the start, for say a week, it would have been fine. It was a weird approach which left a lasting bad impression. He attended many other places before he was 5 (gym childcare, summer school) and never had any problem there, because they had a more relaxed approach. Montessori Park West was very uptight about this particular rule which did not help the kids. It was also a direct contradiction of their written marketing materials.

Our daughter was a student at Park West for 2 years before starting a UPK program at our local public school. I have been meaning to leave a review for a while now, but having started a new school has inspired me to do so. I remember when we were looking for a pre-school a few years ago, and Yelp reviews were some of the only resources available to get an idea of what was out there for early pre-school/daycare.<br>Anyway, I just want to say that we had an amazing experience at Park West and we would highly recommend it to any family looking for a safe, nurturing environment for their child. Our little one had gone to a corporate daycare for about 6 months prior to starting at Park West, and had literally cried every day when we dropped her off. When we switched to Park West, it took about 3-4 days to transition her to her classroom, and for the next 2 years she literally ran into school everyday and was so happy to join her class. I watched over the last 2 years as she learned new skills and practiced them, and learned that is what life is about. Sadly,only one of our children went to Park West, and she is the most gracious and polite of our three, coincidence? I think not.<br>I honestly feel that the education my child received has helped make me a better parent. One of the biggest regrets we have as a family is that we did not stay for UPK, and we all went through a kind of grieving process when we left Park West. The teachers are so dedicated and kind, it is hard to replace them!

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