Enrollment
Thank you for your initial interest in our school! Please browse through our website for information on all our programs, people, philosophy and methods, and events. Here, you will find all the information you will need about the process of enrolling your child at Stepping Stones, including forms needed. Click here for our tuition page.

Please click the following link in order to make an enrollment inquiry:
https://www.schoolcues.com/Portal/PreEnrollment/Index/zowM6RrPQKE or  the school's email is learn@steppingstonesmontessorischool.com.

A chart of Frequently Asked Enrollment Questions can be found at this link:

For the next school year, our Early Enrollment period opens in February. New families may elect to enroll after receiving the email about the Early Enrollment period in early February. Email the school to confirm that you want to enroll your child. Send a check made out to SSMS for the amount of September's tuition plus a (one time) registration fee of $100. 
                                    Stepping Stones Montessori School
                                    195 Hallowell Rd
                                    Chelsea ME  04330
                                    learn@steppingstonesmontessorischool.com
(If you have not yet visited at a prior Open House, you may want to visit at our upcoming Open House each March before enrolling. You may also enroll that day if slots are available.)

Confirmation of Enrollment
We will respond to all inquiries. After receiving your email requesting enrollment and your deposit, we will confirm that a spot is open and email you directions for setting up a School Cues account, after which the rest of the contact and emergency information/permission forms can be filled out on School Cues by the parent.
If for some reason there was no slot available to your child, we will return your check for September tuition. We will refund $75 of the registration fee.  We will not refund any payments unless we have no slots available in your child's age level classroom. 

Summary of Enrollment Paperwork and Deposits Due
    * the non-refundable Registration Fee of $100.00, plus
    * the Deposit equal to the September tuition amount for your child, also non-refundable
    *sign up on School Cues (after receiving the instructions)
    *Enroll in our tuition management system, SMART Tuition, online. In addition to your next school tuition payment in the fall, SMART Tuition charges a once annual fee of $50. 

Note:  we will want to meet children enrolling in Grades 1-8.

“Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his early life.”

                                                 —Maria Montessori

We encourage respect for nature.

A plethora of hands on experiences add up to an early love of learning.

The Von Trapp Children in their new playclothes (2012 Sound of Music production)

Feeling big and powerful in a fire truck!

Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you.