Admission Policies

The Philomath Montessori School recommends enrolling your child between the ages of 2-1/2 and 3-1/2 years. They must be at least reliably toilet trained. We consider diversity important to the health of the school and to the full development of the children. No child will be refused admission because of race, religion, or creed.

Waiting List Policy

The Philomath Montessori School strives to admit children to our school in a fair and timely manner. We use the following procedure to meet this objective while maintaining classroom balance with respect to age, gender, and cultural diversity.
• We place a child on the waiting list when payment of the family's deposit and registration fees are received with a completed application form.
• We admit children to the school when they become eligible, in the order they were placed on the waiting list.

Eligibility

• Eligibility for an open position is subject to the Guides' determination of the required age, gender, and cultural diversity to maintain classroom balance.
• When a family has requested that their child not be admitted before a certain date, that child is not eligible until the requested time has arrived.
• When two or more children on the waiting list are otherwise eligible, and were placed on the waiting list within 3 months of each other, siblings of present or past students take highest priority; transfer students from other Montessori schools take second priority; other children take third priority.
• Children under 2-1/2 or over 4-1/2 years old are generally not eligible for admission. Older transfer students may be eligible with the consent of the Guides.

Volunteer Hours: 20 hrs/yr/family

We want every family to be aware of what is involved when they enroll their child in our school. Besides tuition and annual registration fees, each family is required to do 20 hours of volunteer work each year for the school. They may opt to pay $300 in exchange for those hours or $15 per hour for the balance of hours not completed. However, we strongly encourage our families to fulfill their commitment by direct involvement -- parent meetings, fundraisers, year-round jobs and parent projects for the classroom. There are obvious benefits for the school, and building school community, but their child reaps the biggest benefit of all. Each year we also do at least one fundraiser to augment our program wherever the greatest need exists.

Philomath Montessori School makes every effort to admit each child on our waiting list, however, we cannot guarantee any position or the time required for a child to be admitted.

Click Here for Tuition and Fees information

Click Here for School Forms