A PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN AGES 3-14, SERVING THE GREATER HICKORY AREA SINCE 1981

Welcome to Montessori at Sandy Ford

We sincerely thank you for visiting our website to learn more about our school. 

 

*Enrollment is full for school year 2024-25, and our Waiting pool for 2024-25 is also full.

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*We do not have a waiting pool for our elementary or middle school programs. This is because our 2 early childhood classrooms feed into our 2 elementary classrooms, and we have not had any openings for a number of years.

 

Tours and Applications for our Waiting pool for Early Childhood for school years 2025/26 and 2026/27 will open again starting in October 2024. 

Our admissions follow a 6 step process:

1.  Email us to let us know you are interested in receiving more information.

2.  We will email you a full information packet that includes all relevant documents, including current tuition rates.

3.  Once you receive that packet, please contact us by using our convenient online form, to schedule a tour of the school and observation in our classrooms. 

Applications are offered after this initial visit to those interested in getting in the waiting pool(list).  

4.  Upon your submission of an application, with fee, the student's name is placed in the waiting pool.  We enroll students from the waiting pool when we have openings. Siblings of currently enrolled students have 1st priority in enrollment.

5.  If enrollment is offered for your child, we will set up a time to have your child visit the classroom for activities and exploration, to evaluate our ability to meet his or her individual needs.

6.  Upon acceptance into the program, other necessary forms for enrollment are given to parents, and, with those, parents submit a Registration Form and a Deposit to enroll (which holds the child's place for that specific school year).

 

We can also provide you with contact information of some of our families who may answer any additional questions you might have, parent-to-parent. 

 

If at any point in this process you have additional questions, or have not received a response from your electronic communication please don't hesitate to contact us by phone.