A 60-Year Legacy as New Jersey's Premier Montessori School
Serving the Community & Surrounding Areas
New Jersey's ORIGINAL Montessori School
Our Montessori-certified teachers create a peaceful and secure environment which cultivates in each child a lifelong love of learning and a sense of one’s place in the world. A child’s natural instincts and the qualities and the skills needed to progress on to the elementary years and throughout life are developed through our multi-age classrooms and practices in grace and courtesy unique to the Montessori philosophy.
American Montessori Society
Accredited by and full member of the American Montessori Society with non-traditional Montessori age groupings.
National Council for Private School Accreditation
We are accredited by the National Council for Private School Accreditation.
Schedule Options
We offer full-day, half-day and part-week programs.
Parent-Teacher Collaboration
and an actively-involved
Christopher Academy Parent Association (CAPA)
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News
Montessori Monday: The Stamp Game
Throughout the prepared environment, the Montessori materials follow a careful sequence, leading children through experiences that become increasingly complicated and which build upon previous experiences, both in the content children are learning and in the...
Montessori Monday: Grace and Courtesy
In addition to the design of the materials in general and the ground rules of the classroom, there are special lessons offered in the Montessori classroom to support children’s peaceful interactions and contributions to their society. The “Grace and Courtesy” lessons...
Montessori Monday: The Kind of Help We All Could Do Without
“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” – Maria Montessori Because we care deeply about our children, we seek to protect them, to shelter them from harm or struggle, to preserve the carefree state we so often associate with childod. But...