As a parent and a speech therapist I can honestly say that this school does not have your child's best interest at heart. They claim to be Montessori yet don't allow for individuality and zero imaginary/free play ( if you tour the school notice the toys don't include dolls, animals, kitchen set, cars). I was concerned because my 20 month old wasn't adjusting (after a couple of weeks of being at their facility). I approached the administrator, Suma, in regards to this issue and said she'd "observe and speak with her teachers". In sum, in the middle of the front desk she went on and said my 20 month old "is a whiner and loner because she doesn't play with other children" and I should speak to a doctor about it. Anyone who has basic knowledge in developmental milestones should know that children BEGIN to play the together at the age of 2 and it is normal for them to play alone/parallel play. Suma also said that if my daughter doesn't nap we'd have to pick her up, I said that wasn't option because I had to work she responded by saying "well, then you have to make a choice on what's more important to you". When I went to pick up my daughter that day, the teachers confessed that Suma "only watched my daughter play for 2 minutes and ran with it" they were deeply apologetic and told me Suma was wrong. As I was leaving, I saw Suma eavesdropping on our conversation. She clearly runs they place as a dictatorship and labels children without any backing. Even though I had the paid the month in full, I dissnerolled my daughter from this school and placed her in Prodigy. I could not be any happier with my choice! All I can say is RUN! There are much better schools out there that will allow children to be children and treat you and your family with the respect and patience you deserve. read more

The Parmer Children's Montessori Academy discriminate against kids with multiple food allergies conditions. They named themselves as nut- free facility, but they don't accept enrollment of children with multiple food allergies. I enrolled my son to Parmer Children's Montessori Pre-School, and after two meetings with the daycare center including an email explaining his allergies issue (he is allergic to egg, milk, lentils, tomato, kiwi, and strawberry) they told only on his first day at the daycare that they can't accept him in there due his allergies issue. Mrs. Jodi specifically said my son's condition would create high liability for them and investors wouldn't like that! After this event happened to me, I checked on the DFPS site another complaint that a child was left unsupervised in the bathroom for approximately 2 hours. I wonder how was that even possible and what irresponsibility. Here is the website: https://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Child_Care/Search_Texas_Child_Care/CCLNET/Source/Provider/ppComplianceHistory.aspx?fid=737009&tab=2 I do not recommend this daycare at all and I appreciate other parents to read this review and really consider not enrolling their child in a place that ignores ADA and its anti-discrimination protection and left children unattended for long periods of time. read more

My son attended here from Infant B all the way through to finish. We were so sad that he had to leave for kinder. I wish he could have stayed longer. He learned so much, and I always knew he was safe here. We loved the diversity and the food provided was always excellent. Rates were very reasonable, and I never had any major issues with communication - Ms. Jyoti was always responsive, and they always answered the phone. We miss this place! read more

Unfortunately, we had a very bad experience with this school. We were told by email and in person in January that they had a spot for our daughter to start in September. We were told we only had to put down $150 deposit to hold her spot. We emailed in June to check in with the school, and over a month later (and about a month till our daughter was supposed to start) we received an email stating that we no longer had a spot in September. No apology, no attempt on their end to fix the situation, no details on when we would have a spot. Just a vague suggestion that perhaps their other branch might have a spot. Considering this was a major screw up on their end they should have at least called and tried to figure a way to fix the situation (rather than emailing me on a Friday at 5). After emailing them back telling them that this was unacceptable, they responded that the deposit was not a guarantee for a spot (definitely not what they communicated via email and in person previously). This seems to be a pattern judging from the other reviews, which I wish I would have seen before I decided to give this place a try. Waste of $150 and more importantly a huge waste of time and unnecessary cause of stress and drama during my paternity leave. read more

Pretty disappointing experience and I agree with Ryan E.'s assessment of Ms. Jodi. Very quick to take your money but can't even lift a finger to return a call or respond to an email personally.According to Ms. Jodi, she stated verbally during our meeting, his was to assure me that they'd had space open to accommodate my child, the $100 deposit was to get them on the waiting list. After emailing back and forth with the general email alias, it turned out that they weren't able to accommodate my start date. This is half way into my maternity leave. Fortunately my second choice was available and extremely responsive. After my emails and voicemails have still gone unacknowledged, I've requested again to have my deposit refunded since this was to place my child on the waiting list. Since I have found another, more professional daycare, there is no need to be on the waiting list and therefore my deposit should be returned. Must be nice to be in business and hide from customers. I would not recommend this location unless you have in writing, via a contract, a start date that both parties have agreed to. The tour and facility are quite nice. It appeared that many of the children and teachers looked happy and satisfied there. Good luck if you want a straight answer from anyone that works there. read more

As a previous employee, I now, almost 10 years later, do not feel comfortable enrolling any of my children in any preschool/daycare. They are nice to you in person because you're the parent and the attitude shifts when the parents head to work. I would not want my children treated the way I've seen these teachers treat them. I am not speaking for every teacher, but one teacher not treating a child well in childcare is one too many. read more

I absolutely love this school! My daughter attended from the time she was 3 and has excelled in kindergarten (brentwood christian school). She is reading and doing math at a 1st grade level and loves to learn. I attribute so much of her learnings to this school and the wonderful teachers - who really do love the children! My son started when he was 6 months old and he loves it just as much. I can't say enough good things about this school, we love it so much that we actually may still commute our son everyday after we move to liberty hill! read more

Our children were at PCMA (now One World Montessori) from 2013 through 2018. Throughout our time with them, they demonstrated professionalism, cleanliness, and authentic care for our children, and helped us to build a friendly community of parents who we are still friends with today. I would recommend PCMA/One World Montessori to families who have high expectations for their childcare provider and who want their children to enter Kindergarten "kindergarten-ready." read more

Wouldn't recommend to anyone. Three teacher changes in 2.5 months, director is never there, and the most unprofessional office staff you can imagine. horrible experience. read more

This school has many fine qualities: the teachers, the curriculum, the cleanliness, the no TV (that's a BIG one!), and more! The one thing that has left a very disgusting taste in my mouth is this: they are in bed with Parker Uniforms company (in other words, they have sold out or have some kind of monetary partnership). I understand the need for uniforms but just like in college... If you can find the same exact uniform (or curriculum book) at a cheaper price online or make it yourself or whatever! you should have the right to pay less for the required uniform! It sickens me that we have this kind of dictatorship with educational corporations. Yes, colleges run the same racket with textbooks. You have to fight the system in order to afford it. PCMA... Don't we already pay you enough? Give up the corporate greed of wanting MORE $ and let the parents supply affordable uniforms that fit your curriculum requirements! read more

My child has been at PCMA for about a year and a half now. My son loves it there. He waves me off when we arrive and has a smile on his face when I pick him up. They've recently had educational visits from a librarian and firemen. They have many festivities and celebrate appropriately. I frequently discover my toddler has learned new things I didn't teach him. He recently started counting spots on his spoon in spanish. He is 2! Everyone is friendly, including the director, Ms. Jodi. I'm surprised by the other reviews parents have given because my tour and process of enrolling went smoothly. Jodi returned all of my calls in a timely manner. The teachers are friendly, approachable, and obviously love children. They utilize the "Tadpole" app for daily reports on meals provided and other details including photos! read more

My 15 month old cried when we dropped him off the first day so we took the advice from the Director Suma to do half day for the first week. Ever since the first day, Suma has been negative about my son's behavior especially his short napping time. Not even three weeks she suggested part time daycare. No matter how much the teachers and the assistant encouraged us and even complimented on my son's improvements, we lost our faith in this daycare. She told us one teacher has to watch my son the whole nap time, which caused a resource imbalance in the class. She blamed my son for not taking long enough naps so we should do part-time but still at full day cost. As soon as we heard this, I realized this daycare/Suma takes the kids who adapt but kicks out those who don't fit. That's how they can show parents in the tour that everything is consistent and perfect. We left that daycare today after almost a month of enrollment. My son seems adapted to the environment finally and takes 1-2hour naps every day this week. However we feel no regret leaving that place because we can't take the pressure from Suma and feel secure when we are away at work. read more

Parmer Children's Montessori was a great experience for my daughter. Ms. Suma, in the primary class, is an excellent teacher. Loving and supportive with the class, while mindful of each child's different strengths, personalities, and pace of learning. We followed Ms. Suma to this school after my son had a wonderful experience with her at a different school. Ms. Suma's classroom assistants also helped to create a warm and welcoming environment and my daughter misses them all now that she is in kindergarten. The school is extremely well kept and managed. Very clean and modern with an enormous shaded playground with plenty of running room. My daughter also enjoyed the lunches provided by the school. All in all, we were extremely pleased with our experience here. read more

I enrolled my daughter in February because she just started Kindergarten (Ausgust) and I felt she needed to learn more, get used to a school atmosphere, and have more overall interaction with school. She could really hold a pencil correctly. Now she's always drawing and painting. She learned new things everyday. I loved the curriculum. I wish we would have found them sooner. read more

Jodi is the worst at calling back we've been trying to get our son into the Academy for 2 months straight no calls no email no anything. I called and talk too her multiple times to see where we stood an place and all I was ever told was ill have to check the schedule and I would call you back as I said before NO CALL NO EMAILS... But she was fast at taking the 100 dollar deposit down to be on a waiting list for lord knows how long... Definitely wouldn't recommend to anybody read more

AVOID AVOID AVOID I went to their newly opened second office -100 Deer Ridge Blvd Round Rock TX. Their second facility was just opened and nice and clean. However, a teacher was holding infants' one arm and moving him around one place to another like monkey. When I said this concern, the director Jodi was extremely rude and giving us bipolar mood. She only wants to talk but don't know how to listen and has a weird temper issue. I quit right after I saw that. And my child has a shoulder injury so had to see a doctor. Jodi thinks it is not that severe issue!!! infant period is the most important period and it can cause a permanent damage. Our every infants are so precious and need to be loved by many others and should not be treated like that. I would avoid this place if you are smart and educated parents. Now I see why this montessori is very low rating and their second place has no place to write a reviews on. I see why. AVOID. read more

The owner has remedied the situation and provided me with a payroll check for the hours I worked.

Got reference of PCMA from a family friend, took tour of the preschool. School is pretty clean but regret for not paying much attention to many of the reviews that warn about PCMA management's rudeness and money oriented approach. Director lady seemed good during initial visit. While enrolling my child, director told me that they are opening new classes and she would put my child in Toddler2 class. Enrollment was in last week of February'15 and so wanted to pay the prorated fees of that week along with registration fees. Director told me that Feb last week fee is waived and I should be paying for month of March by first week of March (Surprising!?). On my daughter's first day, director took U turn on what she talked earlier and suggested me to put my daughter in Toddler1 class. (Toddler1 class had per month $80 extra fees than Toddler2 class). She also added that Toddler1 class has Indian teacher which might help my child while coping with the Indian language my child speaks at home. Personally we had no problem about which class our child gets into but would have liked if director would have kept her words. Other day, I spoke to Toddler1 teacher and got to know that teacher was not Indian but Bangladeshi and spoke only Bengali or English - not having a hint of Hindi or other Indian languages. It then added to our list of surprises about PCMA. In 2 days of starting PCMA, my child developed school sickness - throwing up in car when we used to start for PCMA from home. It never happened when my child was going to home day care. I mentioned it to PCMA teachers. There was no sign of care or help or simple Montessori manners from either of Todder1 class teachers, rather there were questions about whether the child is sick. We tried starving our child in morning until we reach PCMA to avoid throwing up in car. Obviously, we were concerned if our child ate properly or not. Teachers seemed to have no heart casually remarking "Kids sometimes don't eat..." One day my child cried so hard in car and passed out until we reached preschool. For first week, PCMA didn't create my personal entry code. They didn't even add our emails on their communication list due which twice I missed their time schedule changes due to weather warnings. By first week of March, while paying March fees, director told me that my fees for Feb last week were still due. I simply mentioned her words about waiving Feb week's fees. Sitting at front desk at morning time when most of parents drop their kids, director started talking very rude, loud and making fool of me with words "Why would I do schooling anyone for free?"... It was another U-turn and wrong business attitude we faced and that was end of our patience. We had doctor's appointment being concerned about our child's health and got the doctor's note to discontinue PCMA with immediate effect. Yet we had to face the last rude attitude while collecting the refund fees and belongings. I called up director and asked if she is available, she said yes and when I visited PCMA, she wasn't there. Front desk lady had no idea on my stuff. Next week we ended up calling PCMA and leaving messages for director to give us a time to collect things. There was no call back. At last when we got director lady on call, she ended up dictating us to stick to our words and be there when time was given!!?? Being irritated by now, we ended up asking her - "Do you think we are just sitting idle to keep calling you?"... Director simply and of course rudely said "I don't know what you do and don't want to know....."???!! We decided to save our words instead wasting on such person and collected our stuff (this time director lady was present in preschool saving our next trip ). Out of our belonging, wipes box was lost! Sorry to say - a very unhappy and unprofessional experience we had with PCMA. read more

Amazing. We feel like we really lucked out finding this school. Nothing so far has ever compared. I highly recommend, but they are almost always full so reserve a spot early. read more

We have been at PCMA for 4 years now with both of my kids attending. My Kindergartner who is an August birthday (one of the youngest in her class) is excelling at Redeemer Lutheran and I attribute it all to the school. Ms. Jody the director is unbelievably dedicated to the school and children. She has given timeless hours to the school and works relentlessly to make it the best Montessori education you can get. The teachers are really well trained in Montessori. We are very lucky to have found this school. read more

Our children adore this school. For those that want to know about PCMA, this is our story. Before PCMA, my daughter attended a very large expensive commercial daycare. The environment was loving, but we wanted to challenge her as she grew older. We decided to make the decision to transfer her to another reputable school close to where we live. Although the new school had a great reputation of fostering learning, we did not feel that the environment was loving. We eventually removed our daughter from the new school after only one week. We continued our search for a school that would meet our needs. That is when we heard about PCMA. We were hesitant to enroll her due to the fact that we would have to make the long trek from our home in Cedar Park to PCMA, but we decided to take the plunge. And we made the right decision. PCMA far exceeded our expectations. We enrolled my son at PCMA as well as our daughter. He had a difficult time adjusting to the new environment, but the teachers and administrators really worked with him. The director, Ms. Jodi, and Ms. Melynda, the assistant director, would carry him when he was overwhelmed by the new environment. We know this because we would smell Ms Jodi or Ms Melynda's perfume on his clothing. We felt their love and sincerity. My son loves all his teachers and has learned so much. He is currently in Ms Mayra's class, and there are days that we have to convince him to leave with us. His previous teacher Ms Sandra and her assistants also taught him so much. My daughter has flourished as well. Although she has transitioned to the Primary class, she still wants to visit her previous teachers, Ms Priyani and Ms Misma. That is how much she loves them! She is currently in Ms Suma's class, and she loves it there. The cleanliness, the food, and activities far surpass the two other schools we attended. I highly recommend PCMA. read more