https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:31:34 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-935645 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:41:30 +0000 brownie 935645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have 2 Montessori schools. 1: $125 registration fee or $75 for returning students. $788 a month for full time care 8:00 am - 5:30 pm 5 days a week. You must be 3 and fully potty trained. This is on par with the on base daycare (the major center) if you add the preschool (yes, you pay more for the daycare to do preschool). The toddler program starts at 2 years old and is $420 a month for 5 days a week. There are cheaper options for less days per week. This is the program we start in August.</p> <p>Right now he is at a child care that is limitted in time 7:00 -4:30 pm ONLY. And it really doesn't have much of a curriculum as he gets older. Right now he is thriving there but the hours are attrocious for us. But it is only $450 a month. He will go there in the afternoon next year.</p> <p>There is another Montessori school that just opened. You have to be 2 1/2 and potty trained. If your child has an accident, you have to come and change them. You pay all year for the 10 months of instruction so it looks cheaper but is on par. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-935606 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:28:52 +0000 regberadaisy 935606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ValentineMommy: our does too. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-935599 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:26:09 +0000 ValentineMommy 935599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our local Montessori schools can start at 18 months! While we aren't planning on sending DS that early, I thought that was really interesting. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934899 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:55:22 +0000 regberadaisy 934899@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: Yea, it's 20 minutes in the opposite direction which means it will be an almost hr commute in the morning. :( No way DH would agree to that and we would have to wake her up even earlier. :( Unless he got a job near it! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934893 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:52:56 +0000 T.H.O.U. 934893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: I was really happy to see the price of ours is really comparable but like you, its out of our way. I may consider it though later on. It would suck though because ours starts at age 3, so if we have another LO, we would be doing drop offs at two places. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934824 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:32:25 +0000 regberadaisy 934824@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Damn. I just looked and our local one is <i>cheaper</i> by $175 per month than what I'm paying for our glorified babysitter.</p> <p>And about $400 cheaper than the other academic center I really liked near my work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934813 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:27:32 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 934813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Montessori is on par with JCC and the academic preschool program here (actually cheaper than academic per hour, since the academic is only 3 half says and Montessori is 9-3:30). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934809 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:26:23 +0000 regberadaisy 934809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: omg that's crazy. I have never heard of that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934807 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:25:57 +0000 mediagirl 934807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: supplies? Not if he starts going to school there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934806 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:25:41 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 934806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have one Montessori school to compare to three local regukar pre-schools. The cost is about the same. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934800 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:23:59 +0000 regberadaisy 934800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: what??? Where does the deposit go? Is it refundable? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934797 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:21:34 +0000 mediagirl 934797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A co-worker of mine is sending his son to a montessori part time (only 8-12) starting in August. His son is 3.<br /> He is paying what we paid for full time for an infant (7am-6pm). Plus, they had a $3500 deposit they had to pay that does NOT go towards tuition. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934770 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:12:07 +0000 MamaBehr 934770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The montessori school we were looking at was 6,000 for the year for half days. It requires five days a week though.<br /> If we sent her to a church preschool, then it was more like 200 or so a month.<br /> If we wanted to send her to another private, no religious ties, school it was in between (ie Waldorf or Reggio Emilia). It was about 350 a month for two days a week but 9-2, so she actually would have spent more hours at that school two days a week than the Montessori school. I guess per hour it was significantly less than the Montessori. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934669 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:28:35 +0000 pelikila 934669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It depends on the kind of the traditional daycare you are considering. Ours is a NAEYC certified traditional daycare in town vs in the suburbs so our daycare is in line with the Montessori daycares in the same area. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934616 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 06:54:20 +0000 T.H.O.U. 934616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our only Montessori school around here starts when they are potty trained around age 3. The price is $710/month and our 3 year old room at our center is around the same price. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/montessori-vs-traditional-preschool-cost#post-934609 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 06:50:50 +0000 ValentineMommy 934609@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I are starting to look into preschools (we have a TON of time, so this is just informational at this point)</p> <p>Just wondering what you all have found as far as cost: </p>