The Primrose School of Chantilly (PSOC) has provided a fun, loving, safe, and nurturing environment…read morefor our 2.5 year old son. He started in the infant room at 3 months old, and has grown up with almost all of his classmates from infancy through toddlerhood! It has been amazing to watch his class grow together. At the beginning, I was nervous about heading back to work after my maternity leave ended and leaving such a young baby in the care of other people for 7-8 hrs a day. By the end of his first week at PSOC, I felt so much better and my guilt had subsided! The staff and his teachers empathized and were there to talk me through any questions or concerns I had. They made it such a smooth transition, and I felt confident leaving him in their care. Over two years later, I've consistently had great interactions with the leadership team, staff, and teachers. They adore my son, and the most important thing of all is my son LOVES to be at PSOC! He is happy and continues to learn at an astounding pace, always coming home with new phrases and words he learned at school, or art projects he completed with the teachers. COVID-19 has been challenging for all of us, but PSOC has went above and beyond during this difficult time. They have been communicative, transparent, and followed safety protocols. That's all we can really ask for, and I've been impressed by the way they have handled the pandemic. We'll unfortunately be moving to California this summer of 2021, and I'm already starting to look for new preschools for my son. It's been so hard to find somewhere as great as PSOC - we will miss them dearly! Between their flexible operating hours for those of us with longer work days, amazing staff, school-provided lunches, great curriculum, and clean facility and playground, it'll be hard to find something comparable.

Our Kindergarten experience was really good, Ms. Perash is the best! If you are looking in the five…read moremile radius, don't think, just go here.

My two children attended RMS for the 2024-2025 school year and will attend this upcoming school…read moreyear. They are now 2.5 and 7, and were 1.5 and 6 when they started. They both love the school and their teachers. My older child has several health issues and the public school was not able to keep him safe and learning there for kindergarten, and we are so grateful to the RMS staff for their wonderful care and support for him during his 1st grade year. Before we found them, I wasn't sure if I'd have to figure out how to homeschool him (while working) but he's very social and I really hoped to find a school environment for him that would work. I am grateful we did. They have been very flexible to meet his needs and integrate him into the school community. This was the first daycare/school setting for my 2.5yo and she cried the first two weeks but then adjusted and is happy there. She is very attached to her teachers and classmates. She loves going to weekly French class, music class and PE, doing her work and going to recess each day. RMS has many engaging school-wide events for the children, from the International Peace Day celebration to the International Day luncheon, from the Thanksgiving potluck to the Mother's Day and Father's Day events. The upper classes have many activities too, including monthly field trips, ice skating lessons for 8 weeks in the winter, a spring play and spring art show and more. The director is kind, personable, and always makes time to talk. I was so impressed that during the first week of school, she already knew all the children by name and took time to greet them. We are looking forward to another wonderful year at RMS.

Teaching quality at RMS is outstanding. Our children have excelled being a part of the community…read more Unfortunately, however, communication from the administration is poor and consists primarily of solicitations for continuing our "montessori journey". Emails or phone calls to the administration go ignored. Policies, procedures, and school calendars are changed frequently with little warning and no parental input. The school PTA means well, but has no communication with the administration. The owner has provided no contact information and is unreachable. To date during the current COVID-19 crisis, we have only received one email from the administration telling us they are "brainstorming ideas". No information on tuition, virtual learning options, summer plans, etc. FCPS sends out daily emails, by contrast.

I'm not sure if my daughter would have excelled to her current level if it was not for the awesome…read morestaff at the Montessori School of Chantilly. Her reading comprehension is strong and her attention is much improved. The thing that I really appreciate about the teachers is the fact that they want to learn more about the respective cultures of the student body so that they can prepare them for the diverse world that exists outside of the school. My daughter is part of such a warm and welcoming environment, so much so that they even invited parents to come in and contribute towards a special event yesterday to better understand and appreciate the importance of Lunar New Year to my family and the other families that celebrate. As a dad, I will always be thankful for that. Highly recommend.

As our daughter finishes up her time here, I feel compelled to echo all the other praises for the…read moreMontessori School of Chantilly. This is absolutely a wonderful place with dedicated educators and caregivers. Our daughter was excited for every day of school and we saw the incredible growth and development every week. There was clear communication from the staff and teachers, we were given updates nearly every day (via photos and videos through the Procare app), and enjoyed multiple events throughout the year. The best place for your young one to start their journey!

We've sent both our boys to Fiore Montessori for several years now. I can't tell you how fortunate…read morewe feel that our children have been able to learn in such an inspiring and engaging environment for both elementary and middle school. For the uninitiated, Montessori allows your child to learn at their pace and teaches them how to use critical thinking rather than memorization and pressure to learn. I encourage you to give your children the gift of Fiore!

As a parent, watching my child grow in Fiore's Montessori Adolescent Program has been truly…read moreinspiring. The program provides a thoughtful balance of academic learning, practical life skills, and emotional development. I've seen meaningful growth in confidence, communication, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. I deeply appreciate the guidance, respect, and support my child receives from the teachers. I feel confident that Fiore Montessori is preparing students not only for academic success, but for life as capable, responsible, and compassionate young adults.

From Hero to Zero. Our daughter attended this school July…read more2020 - Nov 2021, and unfortunately what started as a great experience and a happy child running to school each morning became a place looking to save money at the expense of anything and most importantly children's physical and emotional well-being. We've been patient and understanding over the past few months with the school's shortcomings, hoping these were all temporary issues, but came to believe that with the current management there is not much hope for the situation to improve. My husband gave this school 5 stars rating last year on Google - a year later we no longer feel this way. Between February 2021 and October 2021 I can name 10 people (staff) who quit. Even though high turnover is pretty typical for this industry, it is definitely a warning sign when people quit in double digits in less than a year's time frame. At some point management shared that they had a hard time finding people to fill open positions as "no one was coming to interviews''. Check the reviews from ex-employees on Indeed.com, you will understand why. The unanimity of the reviews and the issues specified is astounding. When we joined, the school was proudly advertising having their own chef on premises who was preparing fresh nutritious meals. Fast forward to summer/fall 2021 - there is no more chef, there is frozen cheap food from outside supplier. At some point our daughter started having stomach issues and we attribute it to the poor quality of food she was getting throughout the day. The epitome of how school was saving on food was when they denied my daughter her 5pm snack when I picked her up at 4:45 citing concerns for staff and students health as a reason. How handing out a prepackaged bag of crackers to kids on their way out before 5pm would be a health concern to anyone is still a mystery to us. Not to mention, that the weekly tuition included 5 meals a day, and handing the prepackaged snack does not require much extra work for anyone and was never an issue until recently. Last year kids were engaged in all sorts of activities - scientific experiments, gardening, cookie elections on Election Day, Halloween events for families. It surely felt like the school was putting effort into making their students' time meaningful, exciting and engaging. Over the past few months this all went to zero too. Not a single day of waterplay during hot summer days - the kids and the teachers were just stuck inside. Nothing for Halloween or any other holiday they put on the monthly calendar. Their daily activities started being repetitive and primitive. Lately whenever we asked our daughter about her day at preschool she would mostly share with us who was hurt during the day and who needed ice because they were hurt. We reached out to the teachers who left and asked their experience and their opinion on the situation. After what was shared with us, it becomes quite understandable why school stopped being a pleasurable experience for our daughter on all counts. If the teachers are overworked, overstressed, underpaid, not given an opportunity to take bio breaks when needed, not provided with materials to be able to do fun educational activities with the kids, how do you expect the teachers to provide high quality education? As great as they were, our teachers looked exhausted by the time we dropped our daughter off in the morning - how can you expect them to go above and beyond when they are constantly stressed and tired? We spoke with other families about their experience and heard more stories, including using timeout as a discipline method and management not communicating transmittable diseases going in other classes. We are very grateful to the teachers that our daughter had during her time at Primrose Reston, but we are very sad and disappointed in the management and how they made once great school the one that not just employees, but families started fleeing.

We paid a premium for childhood development and in the two years we've been there it has become a…read morepoorly managed daycare. We had no other choice but to abruptly pull our kids out in fear for their mental health, lack of classroom structure and control, lack of communication from management and overall a careless, heartless environment. After a slew of red flags I connected the dots and believe the mental health, and potentially physical health, of the children in this school are not prioritized. Until the current management is no longer associated with this business I would not trust my children going here. The teachers are the only opportunity you have for your child to have a good experience, and all of them end up leaving. Just look at Indeed.com reviews. The owner uses Covid as an excuse for everything when really it is just very poor management. After months of vague or unresponsive communication regarding curriculum and class structure I started digging. Through the children in the classroom and other parents I learned that my daughters teacher allowed several girls to call themselves and each other "bad girls". The teacher confirmed she knew this was going on to my face the day we pulled them out. I also learned there is a table dedicated to timeout, when ownership states time out is never used to discipline. Over a six week period I asked my daughter the same questions on her experience at school; "Who did you play with, who was kind to you, who were you kind to...", and began seeing concerning patterns of negative self talk, resistance to answer and anger. I talked to other parents and several were also having other issues ie. their younger kids being covered in pee at pick up repetitively, lack of kindness to their upset daughter, teachers being too rough, etc. The straw that broke my back was the night my usually sweet, upbeat almost 4 year old told me on the brink of tears that she was a "bad girl". This is where my one-star review begins. Primrose teachers can not babysit for kids that attend the school. I started asking teachers that had left about their experiences and why they left and OMG I CANT EVEN TELL YOU how mad I became. Teachers don't have enough material to perform the activities planned for each day, much less have necessary training from leadership. Then I learned MORE about the lack of support from leadership ie. not coming when they needed to go to the bathroom, editing the daily reports and incident reports, I could go on and on. The teachers are over worked, under paid and stressed. A year ago the school highlighted their onsite chef and fresh food prepared daily. Now the food is whatever is cheapest for the business. Everything feels like that. Cheap cheap cheap. They stopped putting effort into keeping this school what it used to be. They did nothing for 2021 graduation or Halloween. Since 2020 they have done nothing to help parents meet each other or connect. The owner sits in their office with no mask, with their dog, and requires anyone three and older to wear a mask for the entire day. We are so grateful to have had good teachers while we did, they shielded us from all of this...but once we were no longer with them (Sept 2021) it got bad QUICKLY. Oh, and it's way over priced. $3,000 a month for two kids? Now I'm pivoting work to homeschool till we find a better spot for my amazing kids. This school is NOT what Primrose corporate says it offers. There a million other schools in our area, keep looking!!!

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The only reason I kept my son here is because he truly enjoys it and it seems to be cheaper than…read moreother daycares. He likes his teachers, he does well and is happy going and coming. I also like the teachers and like how the program is for the kids. What I do not like is the administration. Maybe when you pay more at other places it is for better administration as well. This place is not organized at all. When signing up, I had signed up both my sons in the summer and was told I would receive a week free for both. So when I put in my deposit I did not pay the second payment because it should have been covered by the "free week". I get a call saying you have to pay and when I asked about my free week they said that is for after they have been there for 3 months. Ok well then why didn't anyone tell me that?! Fine, so over 3 months go by and I was the one that had to remind them of it and at this time summer was over so one of my kids went back to his the elementary school and never go his free week. After a month or so I find out they have an app that I can use that a teacher told me about not the admin staff. Then they never told me about online payment either, I am the one that asked if they had one. Their online system sucks as well, it does not show how much needs to be paid or any balance information. I was told to pay a certain amount last October on the online system and have been since then. And now I was told that I have an overdue balance. How does that make sense and where is this overdue balance coming from? I decided to finally pull my son out and did not want to deal with them. So, I paid whatever they wanted me to and just left. I had many other issues with the admin staff on money and etc and I just got tired of it. I love the teachers there and the program especially since my son loved it too. But enough was enough, I would not recommend this place to anyone.

I've known the school owner/director at CMS for 30 years. My 2 kids went there back when the…read morelocation was in Herndon, and my granddaughter just graduated their preschool program a couple of weeks ago. You will not find a better Montessori preschool for your little ones! Everyone who works at CMS treats the children like they are their own. They have so many engaging and specialty programs and a terrific summer session, too! Multiple staff members have been there for a long time (two decades or more), and every one is highly trained and competent. The school itself is clean and organized, with large classrooms that are set up to encourage learning and exploration. The huge playground is tree-covered and always monitored. There are fun family activities sprinkled in throughout the year like a kid's carnival and spring tea where parents are invited. If you're looking for a place where your children will enjoy learning and be valued as individuals, you will surely find a home at Community Montessori School.

I have two kids at CMS (3 years old and baby is 7 months old) and I couldn't be happier with their…read moredevelopment and learning experience. The staff is very friendly and the teachers are helpful and experienced. My son transferred from a church preschool and within a month, he could hold a pencil correctly and trace letters. I recommend this to any family that is looking for a safe, happy, family-oriented, learning experience for their child.

We've been at PNS for 1.5 years now, and we could not be happier! I am so grateful we found this…read morecommunity for our children to thrive and prepare for school. I was unfamiliar with the co-op approach, but I am glad I found this school and this atmosphere allowing parents to have real impact on the school and maintain affordability in NoVa. I also really appreciate the secular curriculum which is often hard to find as an affordable option. I just signed my youngest up for the next school year! we will be sad when our children leave PNS because how much it has become important to our family.

We love Providence Nursery School! My two oldest children have very different personalities and it…read morehas been a fantastic experience for both of them. We can't wait for our youngest to start there soon! We love the wonderful community and having the opportunity to be more involved in our children's early childhood education. All of the teachers are wonderful and staff turnover is super low (many of the teachers and aides were parents at the school before they became teachers and loved the school so much they couldn't stay away!). All of my children love going to school and have so much fun learning through play at PNS! My oldest was definitely prepared for kindergarten (she's thriving) and I have no doubt my younger two will be ready when they graduate, but I will be so sad to leave this wonderful school!