About Us

Maria Montessori School serves preschool, elementary, and middle school children.  The school is a a not for profit California (501)C3 and is operated by Argonauta Educational Programs Inc. and accredited by the Montessori School Accreditation Commission.

Our school has been providing high quality education in a warm, ordered, loving environment for children in San Diego since 1975.  If you believe that:

• learning should be a happy, joyous experience;
• each child grows physically and mentally at his/her own pace;
• success builds confidence;
• needs and interests vary from child to child;
• children should be treated with respect;
• education is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in which the child acts on his/her environment;
• most children have more potential than they are encouraged to develop;
• children learn best in an environment of love, security, understanding, and consistency;
• the most important years are not the years of university studies but the first ones - the formative years - when the child's mental life is being developed;

Then come visit our Montessori school!

Maria Montessori School welcomes diversity in its student body, faculty and staff. The school admits students and families of any race, color, creed, national and ethnic origin to all the rights and privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students in the school. The school does not discriminate on the basis of student’s or their families’ race, color, creed, national and ethnic origin, sex, marital status or sexual orientation in its admissions procedures, educational policies, and employment practices.