Ghent Montessori School

Ghent Montessori School is a co-educational institution that has been serving the Hampton Roads community since 1978, educating children from 18 months to 8th grade. The school follows the Montessori approach, emphasizing individualized instruction, hands-on learning, and self-directed activity, with a focus on cultivating independent thought, empathy, social awareness, and confidence in its students. The school's unique characteristics include mixed-age classrooms, uninterrupted work periods, and specially designed materials and activities that promote learning and independence. Ghent Montessori School offers a comprehensive Montessori curriculum, a prepared environment that fosters independent thought and social awareness, and a strong sense of community among parents, teachers, and children. The school's approach is holistic, focusing on the development of the whole child, and it provides various programs and features, such as before and aftercare staff, quality work cycles, child development seminars, and celebrations of achievement, that contribute to its unique characteristics and set it apart from traditional educational institutions.