About Us
Discovery Montessori School offers a model educational program set in a village-like wooded campus. The enriched classrooms within our serene and natural environment foster each child's intrinsic desire for knowledge and provide the means for self-exploration and growth. The Discovery experience mutually benefits our children, their families, and the broader community.
Discovery Montessori School was founded in 1990 by dedicated parents who wished to further the Montessori experience for their children. A nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation, Discovery Montessori grew from modest beginnings as an elementary program to encompass the specialized classrooms for children from 18 months to fifth grade offered today. In 1998, the school relocated to its current beautiful 2-acre wooded site, the Hudson-Lane Campus.
Discovery Montessori is a thriving community of children, parents, faculty, and staff that provides an inclusive and highly personalized educational experience for our students. An After Care program is available for parents needing an extended day.
Discovery Montessori is a member of the following organizations:
- Fully Accredited by the Florida Kindergarten Council
- American Montessori Society
- North American Montessori Teachers Association
- Michael Olaf
- Nienhuis Montessori
- White Oak Conservation Center
- Fruit Level Sponsor of the Beaches Local Food Network
- National Education for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
- Non-Profit Center of Northeast Florida
- Green Chamber of the South
- Independent School Management (ISM) - ISM believes that partnerships-working with other organizations-will reap enormous benefits for kids. The 21st century focus on collaboration means that we understand that no one organization is able to deliver everything that schools need at the requisite standard of excellence. We therefore constantly seek out those partners, on behalf of children, who work as equals, have deep respect for each other's contribution to education, and who are willing to place themselves as servants to their schools, not masters.