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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.

The montessori school we were looking at was 6,000 for the year for half days. It requires five days a week though.
If we sent her to a church preschool, then it was more like 200 or so a month.
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.

@mediagirl: what??? Where does the deposit go? Is it refundable?

@regberadaisy: supplies? Not if he starts going to school there.

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).

@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.

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.

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.

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.