Mountain View Montessori School

Best school in the city. This school has such an incredible community and we are lucky to be part of it. Our children thrive here and it is the perfect learning environment for our family.
Jan 11th, 2024

This is a good school. If you can get in. We started the waitlist process while I was pregnant. It seemed like we had a high chance to get out child in within her first year. After taking numerous classes and sending numerous emails we were confirmed to go in for August 2023. At this point our child almost to be 2 years old. We get another email confirming we will be on waitlist yet another year since we were waitlisted for only a year.... not sure how they track their information. It has been well over a year. I get the class size is small. They could just been honest with us. They just wanted us to say that we no longer wanted to be on the waitlist. Either way, I do hear good things about them. Work with them and hopefully it works out for anyone who reads this. Just FYI they did admit they are not tech savvy. So maybe that's it. I also know they prioritize any future kids if you already have kids in their system. Give it a shot and wish you all the best.
Jul 4th, 2023

In order to apply you have to sit through three hours of PowerPoint presentations before you are allowed to apply. They are presentations on how to parent because you obviously cannot parent your child without them teaching you how. They are full of boring arrogance. If the school want La to force me sit through how to parent classes, taught via PowerPoint, after my kid is in, I think that is arrogant and pigheaded, but I would do it as part of what you have to do. However, making me sit through three hours of PowerPoint slides just to be able to apply is stupid. If Reno public schools were their current cesspool of learning, this place's arrogance would put it out of business. Once in I hear that the dictation is solid, but oh my good what jerks!
Nov 30th, 2022

I'll start with the positives:  It really is a wonder to watch adorable 3 year olds navigate their own way through a classroom with minimal distraction from the teachers.  For certain kids, this program works wonders.The dark side, unfortunately, it that if your kid does not fit the perfect mold of what MVM wants, the administration will make you and your child feel like failures.  They'll push needless psychiatric care (and possibly get your child addicted to needless pharmaceuticals) and worrisome diagnoses instead of EVER acknowledging that they admitted a child who simply didn't fit their agenda.  But then they'll kick your kid out with no apology.  This happened to my child at a young age.  So we moved him to the local public elementary school, Hunsberger.  Within a few months at the new school, he had friends, was thriving AND he learned to read, which is something MVM seems to want to prevent children from learning until they're much older.  And now that my kids are older, I can assure you that their love of reading is intrinsic and not dependent on when they learned to read.  My other child also attended Hunsberger, and reads constantly for fun.  Overall, MVM is a good school for SOME children, but it's aura is too cult like. Parents are basically intimidated into thinking that if their little Johnny does not make the cut, that his life is ruined, so instead they retreat in silence rather than stand up to the legitimate abuses of power that I've witnessed.
Nov 7th, 2022

My son didn't attend this school. I repeatedly reached out to them and finally received a response back stating that I would need to attend a meeting (they only have one in September) in order to fill out an application. So, I respond back letting them know I don't even live there yet and would like more information on a day in the life since the school Tuition is 12K... doesn't seem like an offhand request, right? Welp. Apparently the ONLY way you'll receive information about this school is if you attend their what I'm going to assume is a child interview in September. Oh and don't even bother, because they're full. So, you have to attend a meeting that they only have once a year to fill out an application to a school your child will never attend because they are already booked up. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. It's funny that the is same type of thing happened three years ago to someone (just saw that below) ... seems NOTHING has changed here. It's a big NO for me. If they're like this before you enter the school, I wouldn't wanna know em after acceptance. Kindness matters and I didn't feel any sense of it during my limited interactions.
Aug 18th, 2021