Academic Institute

Have become aware of a few teachers through the grapevine who place their politics over community and neutrality. No one is sure how to handle these few teachers other than hope to not be assigned them and grit your teeth until the year is over if you do get assigned them. Other teachers, administration, staff are wonderful.

I am happy to see my daughter's progress with this school. Appreciate efforts taken by all teachers.

Our son has been going to Early World since 2022, we moved from Newport (A sister school). We LOVE every teacher we have met. Our child has experienced so much growth and has so much fun. They have a parent portal with an app, send photos throughout the day as well as letters, notifications and schedules. The office staff has been great too. They are much more friendly than Newport was. Overall our experience the past year has been 5 stars so these reviews from 8+ years ago must be from prior management because there is not a single person that is not more than happy to help!!!

I totally regret sending my kid to this school. While some of the teachers (music, art) are very good, vast majority offer downright vile toxicity to the kids and parents. We were hoping new grade, new teacher would change things - but it has gotten order of magnitude worse. Expect to be told things like "in my x years of experience, no kid behaves like this" -- right from the 2nd week of school. This is for making silly faces & such. From 6-8 year olds. Learning here is a total solo endeavor, and it is largely on parents to help their kids actually learn. The school seems like a place to go get tormented and get complaining emails from. To make it worse, parents aren't even equipped to help their kids - for instance, in their 25 page homework, they add in pages of worksheets on topics they haven't even covered in class yet. And, guess what - those pages aren't even marked as such. Parents & kids are left to their own elements wondering what to do of those.Really - avoid this school like the plague. I cannot imagine a worse and more toxic environment for little ones to deal with.

Appalling admissions process. The staff appeared to be highly incompetent, with terrible communication between staff and parents. If they run the front of their business this poorly, i'm scared to know what corners are cut behind closed doors. There are plenty of better Montessori schools in the area. Avoid this one at all costs.

Our son has been at Cedar Park Bellevue for two years now. We really like the teachers and the small class sizes. I'm pleased that they've added a STEM program to the curriculum which I think helps to give the students additional opportunities for learning math and science. We are also lucky to have our son in the Japanese program that they have. They also offer a Spanish program, but for us Japanese works great and it's really the only Eastside school that we are aware of that offers Japanese. The Japanese teacher is new this year to the school and is doing a fantastic job. All of the teachers at Cedar Park Bellevue are top notch!