Centerville

I have a second grader and a full time pre-k child here. Our experience has been wonderful. The teachers and administration have been open and supportive.

Gus is a mixed experience, very dependent on which teachers your child has on any given year and on the student body of your child's class. It is also a hypocritical environment as they claim to be all about the "whole child" and the "social-emotional well-being" of each student, but they are unwilling to provide consequences for students who are disruptive or even mean to others, thereby forcing the other students to suffer the consequences.

The best summary came recently from our 13 year old son: "You know Dad, it's weird, but even the kids at my (public) school that get good grades, only seem to care about getting the right "answer." They don't REALLY care about learning what it is we're studying." That sentiment 100% comes form his nine years at Harborlight Montessori.As a family, our experience was phenomenal at this school, and we have all become life-long believers in the power of the Montessori Method of education. My wife and I probably said to each other at least several times each year: "How much better would have our own school experiences have been had we been to a school like this?"