What are the staff qualifications? I read a so called professional letter from the 'director' in which the PROPER ENGLISH is absolutely not there...couldn't even SPELL words correctly...has no idea how to properly structure a simple sentence...and what school did the 'director' attend that said they are qualified to teach a child?? What I seen is something that a third grade English class would know how to do but this 'director' couldn't do it? For the amount of money people spend on these things should at least come with qualified instructors... Think about that before you take your child there!!! The little people in that daycare are probably smarter than this so called 'director'.. read more

Great place for kids! My daughter has been attending for over a month now. We are pleased with her progression and the amount of hands on learning they do. read more

My daughter absolutely loves this school! The teachers are great and make sure my daughter feels welcomed and is taken care of every day. She has been a student here for over a year and I am extremely happy with them. They have a fun yet challenging curriculum, the school is well kept and they have a great play areas for the kids. read more

My kids have been going to Sterling for 4 months now... my kids love it, they are in preschool and are learning so much. My son loves to come home and teach me what he has learned. He is currently learning all about the human body, so he shares about the different systems. He is also learning sign language and is excited to share what different words are in sign. My youngest is excited to see her friends there and enjoys being with her bestie. We have had to deal with other kids biting and being mean, but those issues were dealt with quickly and I haven't seen them pop back up. My oldest gets a ride from school to sterling and I do feel that she is safe during transport and once she arrives. read more

My daughter has been going to school here since October, and she is constantly surprising me with her knowledge. When she started, she hardly knew any colors, numbers, shapes, or really anything but a few key words, (she is 2) and now she can count to twenty! She knows all her colors, her vocabulary is constantly growing, and she is so so happy. I love this school! read more

I have two children that go here each in different age groups they absolutely love it. My preschool age child comes home and talks about his friends and new topics he's learning. My youngest is all smiles and goes straight to playing. We love getting photo updates and seeing all of the wonderful activities that the kids participate in. read more

Sterling Montessori has been in the business for more than a decade with hundreds of graduates who grew up into fine young men and women. This school have professional staff who continuously improve themselves to provide great service. Their genuine concern for the children is heartfelt. All the children feel at home from the moment they come in up to the time they go back to their actual homes. This is the best nurturing environment any child can have where they can be themselves to learn with a sense of comfort and independence. It is very disheartening to have certain individuals shift from great to bad reviews just because they are disgruntled or may be covering up their own irresponsibilities as parents by putting baseless blame to a good educational institution when children get sick or hurt. read more

We're grateful for the caring and dedicated staff at starling Montessori School. They've fostered a love of learning in our child and encouraged their natural abilities. read more

Our daughter has been going to Sterling Montessori for almost a year now and she loves it there. We are quite surprised with her progress, she seems to come home everyday learning something new. She loves her teacher and has made lots of friends. She is always excited to go to school and tells us the things she did and learned when she gets home. We cant imagine or daughter going anywhere else. read more

We had issues from the very start and wish we would have pulled our son out sooner. There was not a major incident that happened but many smaller instances that continue to happen from week to week that accumulated to our decision to leave Sterling Montessori. We never thought our son was in danger or being mistreated by staff but from our perspective there are too many children for the amount of teachers they have. From the beginning we had issues with receiving any type of information on what our son needed from home or how our son was doing during the day other than a few pictures of him which as parents of a three year old we would expect that to be provided since he couldn't tell us himself. When first enrolling our son he was put in a class with younger children because there wasn't enough room in his proper aged classroom and we were not told until 2 weeks in even when we had been holding the spot for a few weeks for him. Before he was potty trained we had a week where he came home with a fully soaked through diaper, a very bad diaper rash and was not cleaned properly leaving residue on his front and back after going #2. We brought it to the director attention and it did get better until our son was potty trained. Now that he is potty trained he was having accidents because he wasn't making it to the restroom in time and we were not being notified by staff when he is running low on extra clothes. Twice he was put in other people clothes because his teacher didn't tell us he didn't have any spares or told us once he had run out not prior to prevent it from happening. Multiple times his clothes and supplies were lost, we were given the wrong items at the end of the day and his shoes were on the wrong feet. The only communication we received from staff was when our son hurt another child but never received any information when he would come home with multiple scratches on his face. When asked what happened during those instances his teacher couldn't tell us because they didn't actually see, they just went off of our son running up to them saying sorry. Which he just started doing since going there and does it when any incident happens, even if it didn't involve him. We were constantly asking the director for more communication from his teacher and were told that either our sons teacher would talk to us at the end of the day or provide a small write up in the app. That never happened and it seems to be that request was never relayed to his teacher. When picking up our son at the end of the day if the front desk host wasn't there, the bus driver would answer the door and not know who or where our child was but no teacher would ever talk to us unless we requested it. We brought our concerns to the director multiple times and nothing changed. The final straw was that we started noticing in pictures on the app that they upload of our son either not being in the group setting with his class, not being acknowledged when going up to this teacher grabbing himself to use the restroom and lastly being left out of the classroom picture on picture day with no explanation as to why he was left out or where he was during that time. When my husband met with the director and our sons teacher to explain why were leaving the school the director offered us the yearly materials fee as a refund not any of the remaining 3 weeks of tuition we had paid in full, which is fine since we did sign a contract that required a 30 days cancellation notice. The next day the director called my husband and told him the refund check would be ready at the front the following day and he could pick it up anytime. In typical fashion when my husband went to pick it up it in the afternoon it was not ready and the director had to be found in order to provide it. The director brought the refund check out as well as another document that that stated we were terminating our contract, not receiving a refund for tuition only the yearly materials fee and that we wouldn't mention the school in any social media or review posts in order to not have our experience shared, which my husband refused to sign and had the director remove the portion about us leaving a review. We gave this place too many chances and really wanted to make it work since it is close to our home and our son was making friends. We hope other parents aren't expressing their concerns and are met with the same results we did. If you want a school that communicates with parents, is organized and has a manageable teacher to student ratio this is not the place for you. Lastly, a newsletter was sent out to parents in October that stated Sterling Montessori would give parents a 50% discount on the yearly materials fee for a favorable review online so take what you want with that. read more

My kids have been at this daycare for 5 months now. My kids love it. My daughter is in the preschool program and I have seen her growth and improvement with learning. My son is in the school aged program, they drop him off and pick him up from school. My son loves it! I would recommend this school for child care. I am happy with the care we are receiving! read more

Please read: I enrolled my child here after reading the reviews & thinking this place is going to be awesome. I was entirely wrong. This place is next to two medical facilities and w covid going around I was really unsure about the location. The first day we had a tour there was a broken pool, broken toys, broken play structures that the kids were still playing on, nails exposed at the kids play table making it potential safety hazard for the children, & just so much more bad safety concerns. My husband addressed all his safety concerns w nails popping out & things not being installed right & offered to make his facility safe. We tried several times to donate our free time & our tools to help this place be less of a liability & safer for children but the owner is always too busy. Before enrolling we told Paolo we only want woman watching our son & their won't be any men including himself watching our child & he said no. He strictly stays in the office & the woman took care of the kids. We said that was our number one rule. When I dropped him off in the morning there was no woman their to watch my son just this other little girl & the male owner. I told him I do not feel comfortable leaving my son alone with him & I will wait for a female to show up which wasn't until 7 o'clock when I dropped him off at 6. The owner told me that he has to go in the kitchen but can't bring the kids w him & can't leave me alone with the kids since I'm not background check through his program. he was just going to leave the kids alone Unsupervised & that is not OK. Especially w all the safety issues my husband and I have discussed. This place is really filthy. Nothing looks like it's ever wiped down. Everything was dirty. Sitting on the floor w my son there was so much dirt & debris I could not believe that the carpets weren't vacuumed. It takes 20 minutes probably to vacuum the whole entire place & for the floors to be that disgusting that someone has to give my child A blanket for him to sit on instead of the disgusting floor first thing in the morning when no other kids are around that's an issue. Nothing is really taken care of at this place & nothing is ever really cleaned. He needs more help, he needs to prioritize safety and stop lying to parents. when I dropped my kid off he was screaming & throwing a fit at the door. This has never happened & he's been in daycare before several times and several different places. Instead of trying to redirect my child, hand him toys anything they just let him cry to the point I had to just take him home and let me add I drive an hour their and back 2 hours round trip to take my kid here because I thought it was going to be good. when picking my kid up I couldn't believe how my son had a shitty diaper for god knows how long cause he had a rash. I don't trust this place. My kid was starting to go potty on the toilet and I would give him a cookie and told them please continue to do what I'm doing at home and continue potty training my kid and give him a cookie when he goes potty and they haven't done any of that. My kids potty situation has gotten worse since he started coming to this program not better. I was diving 4 hours a day to take my son to a place I thought was going to be beneficial but it was anything but. I keep getting charges now it's up to $416 and my kid is not even going their. Let's see if it finally stops cause I keep getting invoices knowing my son doesn't go their no more. His prices are the same prices as everywhere else I been too, his staff is super nice but it's just not a well managed daycare for children. Ask yourself if you were told no man would ever be alone w your child then you find out theirs no woman their expect the owner when you drop your kid off wouldn't you be concerned knowing he said that would never happen? Lots of better places to go in my opinion. The owner wants me to remove my review but this was my experience and it was awful. Hope others have better experiences than I do but I did not have a good experience. Update: the invoices haven't stopped. My kid only went here 3 times. We paid cash for all 3 days plus food upfront before he started. I have spoken to Paolo and my Husband has spoken to Paolo several times about please stopping the invoices being sent to our account and we keep getting more invoices. My Husband said it's a way to harass us because I won't remove my review. Don't take your kids to this place your regret it like I do. He's creating so much drama for my family and my kid only attended 3 times. Enough to have be running out and warning others to stay away. Just continue to have an awful experience that hasn't stopped yet. read more

Very clean facility with good communication. We're definitely comfortable voicing concerns, as well as asking questions. Our son responds well to the staff and students. read more

Sterling/Bambini Montessori: Not the right fit for my one-year-old! We tried out the center for about a month and a half before we started interviewing other daycares. For context, she attended from July 19th to August 26th of 2021, and here is why we left: My daughter was getting diaper rash about once a week, this does not happen at her new daycare. So, I assume it was because they weren't using the diaper cream we gave them or changing her diapers enough. She never napped well, even though she is a fantastic sleeper at home and her new daycare. I found her crying by herself a few times, I do not think the teachers were letting her cry on purpose, they are all very sweet. But, I do think that they are overworked and understaffed. Several times we found bark in my daughter's shoes and splinters in her feet. We knew that they were not putting socks on her feet when she was wearing shoes because the socks we sent never came back dirty. When I forgot to send a water bottle with my daughter, the director made it sound like they did not offer her any water from 7-11:30 AM when I called. I was informed that they did not have any spare water bottles but they could try and give her water from an open cup. If that is the case, I should have been notified immediately when they discovered she didn't have a water bottle. I came to pick my daughter up one evening and found her and another child eating in high chairs without supervision. I was there for almost a minute before any teachers came out to check on the children. After the incidents with the water bottle and unsupervised snack time, I immediately pulled my daughter out of Sterling/Bambini Montessori. I did not feel that I could trust them to care for my child. I also filed a formal complaint with social services. Since then, the director has made me feel guilty about filing the complaint and has told me multiple times that I should have spoken to him directly about the issue. I did not appreciate this approach or him trying to blame me for his staff's mistake. He is extremely difficult to get ahold of and I felt given the severity of the issue that it needed to be reported so that I could make sure that other parents in the center were notified. He did tell me that he had talked with his staff about the incident and that he had previously hired a third person to work in the infant area. Only one time did I see three people working in the infant area, but I hope that it is his intention to have more staff. I really appreciated that since he knew we were so unhappy he worked with us to end our contract early, which he did not have to do. Overall, I am glad that my child does not attend there anymore. I hope that they work to improve the care that is offered, which the director did express is his priority. read more

Staff and directors are very easy to talk with. You can tell they genuinely care about the kids and their needs.

I obviously can't speak for the experiences that others have had here, all I can do is share mine/my family's experience. I've recently read a lengthy negative review about Sterling, and will say that in the many years that we've had our son at this school, we've witness none of those things... I am a Police Officer, if there was ANY concern about this place, you can bet that I would have addressed it. Paolo and his staff are so nice and sincerely care about the kids and their overall experience. I can say confidently that our son has shown growth with his learning and also his interpersonal skills. During Covid, we considered taking our son out since my wife started working from home, just to save a few bucks, but it was actually our son who asked to please stay "at his school" cause he would miss "his teachers " oh and he would "miss his friend Tommy!" lol He obviously loves the place so that means my wife and I love the place, and I would recommend Sterling Montessori to anyone considering child care in the area. read more

Both of my babies love going to school here. The teachers are amazing! my oldest aways have something to say about her day everytime I pick her up. :) I highly recommend this if you have little ones that you would want to be around other kids their age. read more

My son has been a student at Sterling Montessori for over two years and is constantly surprising me with how much he is learning. The teachers are wonderful and my son has loved attending school here from the day he started, The staff has been very accommodating on days when I needed drop in care in addition to my son's preschool schedule. I highly recommend Sterling Montessori whether you are looking for childcare, socialization, or academic skills for your little one(s). read more

Sterling Montessori has bee a great school for my children. Two of my boys has joined their infant center (Bambini Montessori) four years ago and when they graduated, the teachers at Sterling Montessori did such a great job that my oldest first grade teacher is very impress with my son's advance ability. Academically both Sterling and Bambini Montessori were committed to their students and all the children at these two facilities has been receiving great personal care and attention.... My youngest is now at Sterling Montessori and he enjoys the fun time and solving the math problems. read more