Springmont

Specialties

Celebrating more than 50 years, Springmont is the oldest Montessori school in the southeast. Located on 7 acres in Sandy Springs, GA the school is accredited by SAIS and SACS and serves children ages 18 months to 14 years. At Springmont, lessons are experienced not just taught.

History

Established in 1963.

The oldest Montessori school in the Southeast, Springmont School was established in 1963 to provide the highest standard of Montessori education, serving ages 1 ½ years to 14 years. A group of visionary Atlanta parents, looking for an alternative to traditional education for their children, started a small Montessori classroom of eight students in the basement of Pace Academy. The parents sawed the legs off adult furniture to create appropriately sized seats and tables for the classroom. They sent a teacher to training in Europe. First Montessori Class of Atlanta, as it was then known, was born, becoming Atlanta’s first Montessori school.

Ten years after our founding, Springmont moved to our current seven-​acre, wooded campus. Middle School was added in 2002.