Montessori schools in United States
This map shows 948 Montessori schools in United States, across 444 areas. Their environments cover ages 0 to 18.
How many Montessori schools are there in United States?
There are approximately 3,025 Montessori schools in United States, according to the 2022 Global Montessori Census.
Right now, 948 of them appear on themontessori.world. The map keeps growing as more schools add their details to the directory. If you run a Montessori school that isn't listed yet, you can request to be added.
Montessori reached the United States early: the first school opened in New York State in 1911, and the following year Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell opened another in Washington. In 1913 they welcomed Maria Montessori on her visit to the country and backed the first American Montessori association, and in 1915 a glass-walled classroom at the San Francisco exposition showed the method to thousands of visitors. That enthusiasm faded within a few years, and the method only returned in 1958, when Nancy McCormick Rambusch opened Whitby School in Connecticut; in 1960 she founded the American Montessori Society (AMS). Today the US has more Montessori schools than any other country, many of them public or charter.