Young Horizons School

After watching Montessori education work for their own son, the owners opened Alphabets Montessori School in 2019. The privately run school and daycare is at 6050 Meadowridge Center Drive, Suite #100 in Elkridge, Maryland, and the family still runs it with Maria Montessori's methods. Children attend from infancy through the kindergarten years. The school is open Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and visits are by appointment. Care is organized into three age-based programs in a single Elkridge location. The infant program takes children from roughly 6 to 10 weeks up to 18 months in a quiet, home-like room built around early sensory and motor development. The toddler program covers about 18 months to 3 years and focuses on independence, self-expression, and peer interaction. The Children's House (Primary) program runs from about 3 to 6 years and uses multi-age classrooms where older children model for younger ones and the work shifts toward early academics, practical life skills, and social development. Teaching follows AMI principles. Day to day, the school emphasizes small, personalized care, certified teachers, and family partnership rather than a large institutional setting. Meals are organic and non-GMO, and the building is kept nut-free for allergy safety. Staff speak several languages, including English, French, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Spanish, which can help families who use those languages at home. Families come from Elkridge and the nearby Ellicott City and Columbia areas, and new families see the classrooms on a scheduled visit.

Children's Magnet Montessori School in Elkridge is one campus of Children's Manor & Children's Magnet Montessori Schools (CMMS), a Maryland Montessori group that has operated since 1993. The Elkridge location opened in 2016 at 6135 Old Washington Road, off Route 1 and minutes from Route 100, Interstate 95, BWI Airport, and UMBC. It sits on a 9-acre campus shared with a sister school, the Maryland International School, a grade 1 to 12 International Baccalaureate World School. The site includes a large library with an indoor playground, a gymnasium, an auditorium and multipurpose room, a secured entry system, and a large outdoor playground. This campus offers Montessori preschool and kindergarten, so it serves children from roughly age 2 through kindergarten rather than the full infant-to-elementary range found at some other CMMS locations. Programs run from Pre-Primary (about ages 2 to 3.5) and Primary (ages 3 to 6) through an Honors and Kindergarten program, plus a summer program. Classrooms use authentic Montessori materials in a hands-on setup, and teaching follows the Montessori method built around the five learning areas of Practical Life, Sensorial, Language Arts, Mathematics, and Cultural Studies. CMMS layers its own Montessori Links curriculum on top, tying each month to a theme and a continent study across character development, STEM, and the arts. Beyond daily classroom work, students get enrichment in STEM, Spanish, Music, and Yoga. The Montessori approach, with mixed-age classrooms and individualized pacing, naturally accommodates a range of abilities and learning styles, and the school emphasizes the development of the whole child and active partnership with families. CMMS participates in the Maryland EXCELS quality-rating program through the Maryland State Department of Education. To help with affordability, the Elkridge campus accepts the Maryland Child Care Scholarship (CCS), Child Care Aware of America (CCA), and Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood (MCCYN).

Elkridge Landing Middle School opened in 1995 and serves middle schoolers in the Howard County Public School System who live in our attendance area. We ask every student to ROAR: be Respectable, Optimistic, Achieving and Responsible. Students take ownership of their own improvement, staff use strong instructional practices, and parents and community members partner with us. Students use HCPSS Chromebooks, and our student services and guidance office and our health room nurse support students during the day. Breakfast and lunch are served daily, with free and reduced-price meals for eligible households, and we offer summer camps.