The Manor Montessori School is the oldest Montessori school in Maryland. Since it's founding in 1962, the preschool has grown to two other locations in Bathesda and Potomac. The Potomac location is the main office and specifically designed to be a Montessori school. The Old Georgetown location is the second school for children ages 3 - 6. A sumer day camp is offered from June to mid-August.
Aspen Hill Cooperative Nursery School is a non-profit and non-denominational organization that is parent owned and operated, but is professionally staffed. AHCNS was founded in 1958 by parents looking out for the best interest of their children for their nursery school care. Here, care-givers and teachers work together in a warm and friendly atmosphere so that children learn cooperation, creativity and caring for others.
St. Jude Regional Catholic School offers kindergarten to eighth grade education using a curriculum endorsed by the Archdiocese Office of education and complies with the Maryland Department of Education.
Students from kindergarten to the fourth grade are heterogeneously grouped while department organization is used for the fourth to eighth grades.
The extended day program offers before and after school childcare. Morning care starts at 7am until the start of the school day. After school care is from 3pm to 6pm.
A member of the Wootton cluster, Frost Middle School takes a collaborative approach to learning. Students, parents and teachers are each accountable for the intellectual, emotional and social development of students.
Frost offers a variety of intervention programs to support student learning including tutoring from residents of the neighboring National Lutheran Home & Village.
The school's special education curriculum includes a Learning and Academic Disabilities program.
Needwood Academy is an alternative school with an emphasis on cooperative learning, interpersonal skills, positive interaction, self-esteem and healthy lifestyles for high school students with home difficulties. Academic instruction is given to help them earn a high school diploma.
The academy is located in the Parkmonth School, across from the Redgate Municipal Golf Course.
St. Elizabeth School is an award-winning Catholic elementary school for boys and girls in preschool - eighth grade. The school is funded by St. Elizabeth Parish, a community-based church with more than 1500 families. The church focuses on community outreach and stewardship to others.
In Aug. 2009, Farmland students and teachers moved from the school's home at 7000 Old Gate Road to the North Lake Center for two years during construction of a new building.
The school aims to foster lifelong learning and promote problem solving among students with a focus on collaboration between students, teachers and parents.
The school is part of the Walter Johnson cluster.
Founded in 1970, Early Childhood Center is a non-profit preschool offering morning, afternoon, before and after-school and summer programs for children from two through four years old. The Center's staff of experienced early childhood educators emphasize students' physical, social, creative and emotional development in a safe and engaging environment with small classes.
Meadow Hall partners with the University of Maryland, College Park as a professional development school for student teaching. Many of those student-teachers return to teach at Meadow Hall after graduation. That, and the many students who walk to school from the surrounding Twinbrook community, add to Meadow Hall's image as a neighborhood school.
The school community's vision is to foster a "respectful, safe and fun" place to learn.
Meadow Hall offers special education classes for learning disabled or autistic students. The school is a member of the Rockville cluster.
Kidsco provides kids an after-school program at Robert Frost Middle School. Among the activities Kidsco offers are supervised homework hour, sports, arts and crafts, music, card games, gym games and field trips. During the winter and spring breaks, Kidsco is open for the entire day. One to two staff members usually supervise the kids, depending on the number of kids present on a given day. The staff is required to take a 45-hour class on child care. The director must take a 90-hour class.
Rockville's oldest public high school and located in the heart of downtown, Richard Montgomery has long been a fixture of the community. Today, it is best known as the longtime home of an International Baccalaureate program that attracts students from around the county and is one of the tops in the world.
Newsweek regularly recognizes the school as one of the top 100 in the nation and it has received a Blue Ribbon in Education Award by the U.S. Department of Education.
With a diverse, international student population, the school's mission focuses on fostering life-long learning.
The school's namesake was the first American general killed in the Revolutionary War. Frederick County was split in 1776 into two new counties, one named for Montgomery and the other for General George Washington.
St. Patrick's Religious Education Center offers classes and education for kindergarten though the eighth grade. The curriculum is based on the Christ Our Life series. The high school program also uses the Life in Christ: Foundations in Catholic Morality, a text written by Ave Maria Press. Class attendance is mandatory.