Children’s Haven Montessori School is a small, state-licensed, home-based, Montessori school near Woodmen and Rangewood in Colorado Springs.

Its personalized setting allows for no more than 7 children in the classroom at a time, creating an opportunity for individualized attention and lessons designed specifically for each child’s unique development. 

We accept children aged 2 1/2 to 5 at the start of the year and have part-time and full-time options available.

Children’s Haven was created with the goal of following Maria Montessori’s philosophy on how children learn best.

After years of scientific observations, Montessori found that children reach their fullest potential in a home-like setting with a Montessori trained teacher and a range of 3 to 6 year-olds.  This classroom must be stocked with Montessori’s carefully designed materials created with the purpose of fulfilling the developmental needs of all children. 

Through a correctly designed environment and the use of these materials, Montessori found that children become self-motivated, independent learners.

Though some Montessori schools have veered from true Montessori methods, Children’s Haven offers parents and children a personalized environment which remains true to Montessori’s original philosophy.

"The Children's House has a twofold importance. It is socially very important that it is a 'school within a house.' In the first place, it must create among the people of the place and the families of the children a sense of peace, cooperation, and well-being, or intimacy that had hitherto been unknown in education. The children work together in a kind of paradise, uninfluenced by the kind of education that children receive in school. These circumstances, which might seem to preclude any favorable outcome for a school, proved to be a necessary condition. It was here that those surprising events took place which roused the curiosity and stirred the admiration of the world such as 'the unexpected manifestation of writing and spontaneous reading,' 'spontaneous discipline,' and 'free social life.' It has solved many social and educational problems. Though it may once have seemed utopian, it has helped to transform the home. It touches directly the most important aspect of society, that is, man's own inner life." - Maria Montessori