A 63-Year Legacy as New Jersey's Premier Montessori School
Serving the Community & Surrounding Areas
New Jersey's ORIGINAL Montessori School
Our Montessori-certified teachers create a peaceful and secure environment which cultivates in each child a lifelong love of learning and a sense of one’s place in the world. A child’s natural instincts and the qualities and the skills needed to progress on to the elementary years and throughout life are developed through our multi-age classrooms and practices in grace and courtesy unique to the Montessori philosophy.
American Montessori Society
Accredited by and full member of the American Montessori Society with non-traditional Montessori age groupings.
National Council for Private School Accreditation
We are accredited by the National Council for Private School Accreditation.
Schedule Options
We offer full-day, half-day and part-week programs.
Parent-Teacher Collaboration
and an actively-involved
Christopher Academy Parent Association (CAPA)
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Montessori Monday: The Moveable Alphabet
Our Montessori classroom is rich with language, from the casual conversations children enjoy between friends and teachers to the formal lessons in decoding, reading and writing. We understand that children's language acquisition is highly individualized, representing...
Montessori Monday: Nomenclature Cards and Purposeful Writing
Once children have begun to write letters, they are quickly motivated to apply that knowledge to useful, meaningful activities. But a child who wants to write a lot may not yet have the attention span or endurance to write for long. It falls, then, to the creative...
Montessori Monday: The Broad Stair
One of our Christopher Academy favorites, the Broad Stair or Brown Stair is a constant attraction in the Montessori classroom. A frequent partner to the Pink Tower, the Broad Stair shares some qualities in common with its upright partner: dimensions in diminishing...