Garden Of Angels School vs. Santa Monica Montessori
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School Overview
School
Overview
Garden Of Angels provides complete exposure to a "whole" education through an interactive, experiential, hands-on curriculum that stimulates growth: socially, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, physically, and creatively.
Our focus is to nurture, guide, encourage, educate and empower each student to be fully self-expressed.
Garden of Angels is a dynamic community of students researching the "Meaning of Life".
It is our vision to challenge the limits of possibility and explore the unknown.
Garden of Angels inspires individual mastery. It creates outstanding citizens rich in communication, with a profound conscience, an educated nature, a thirst for knowledge, and a commitment toward humanity with the courage to live powerfully and make a difference in the world.
Santa Monica Montessori School is a private academic preschool and elementary school through eighth grade based on the philosophy of freeing the child's potential in a stimulating environment.
Dr. Maria Montessori, the first woman M.D. in Italy, developed what she called the "prepared environment" which helps your child develop according to his or her own capacities in a non-competitive private school environment.
The goal of a prepared environment is to help your child develop self-confidence and independence that inspires self-discipline and a love of learning which will remain throughout his/her life.
Montessori Schools emphasize individual as opposed to group development. Dr. Montessori believed that the most effective impulse to learning was self-motivation, so a prepared environment does not force information and skills onto the child but rather he acquires the knowledge himself.
Santa Monica Montessori School offers your child love, security, and a stimulating private school environment that inspires learning through exploration and discovery.
We have a very diverse student body representing many countries, cultures and races. We work with the "Connections for Children" Organization.
Grades Offered
PK-1
K-6
Blue Ribbon School
No
No
Year Founded
n/a
1960
Students Body
Total Students
90 students
42 students
Student Body Type
Co-ed
Co-ed
% Students of Color
26%
41%
Students by Grade
Students by Grade
Pre-K Students
56
-
Kindergarten Students
28
16
Grade 1 Students
4
5
Grade 2 Students
-
5
Grade 3 Students
-
2
Grade 4 Students
-
2
Grade 5 Students
-
5
Grade 6 Students
-
2
Grade 8 Students
2
5
Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers
5 teachers
5 teachers
% Faculty with Advance Degree
70%
20%
Average Class Size
15
12
Teacher : Student Ratio
1:18
1:8
Classroom Dress Code
Casual
Casual
(Comfort rules. Dress like a kid!!)
(Comfort rules. Dress like a kid!!)
Finances and Admission
Admission Deadline
None / Rolling
None / Rolling
Tuition Notes
n/a
1/2 day-$10950 academic year
school day-$12950 academic year
extended day-$14950 academic year
Payments accepted
$100 application fee
$500 registration fee (books, supplies, insurance)
% on Financial Aid
n/a
10%
Average Financial Aid Grant
n/a
$250
Acceptance Rate
n/a
95%
Admissions Associate
n/a
Dr. Ivy Sinjur
Sports
Total Sports Offered
n/a
8
Extracurriculars
Total Extra-curric.Total Extracurriculars
n/a
11
Extra-curric.Extracurriculars
n/a
Arts/Crafts, Building Workshop (blocks), Cooklng, Dance & Movement, Homework Club, Mandarin Chinese, Peace Garden, Spanish, Sports, Storytelling, Voice and Piano