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.

Enrollment Policies and Procedures for New Families

Enrollment Process for the Current School Year
Initial Contact
Please contact us to determine whether or not we have Program Openings for the current school year. If we do, we will then guide you through the Enrollment process.

Enrollment Process for the Upcoming School Year
Step 1: Initial Contact
Please contact us by making an online inquiry, letting us know of your initial interest in our school.  An online inquiry ensures that your name will be in our file so that you can be notified when early enrollment for the next school year starts (usually early February).  Be sure to include your name, your child’s name, his or her age, your phone number, and email address.
Step 2: We will get back to you and answer any questions you may have about enrollment. 
Step 3: Download the Emergency Permissions form with payment contract, fill out, and send to the school or scan and email to the school. Include a check made out to Stepping Stones Montessori School for the amount of September's tuition plus a (one time) registration fee of $100.
                                    Stepping Stones Montessori School
                                    95 Hallowell Rd
                                    Chelsea ME  04330
                                    ssmontessori@roadrunner.com
Step 4:  Confirmation of Enrollment
We will respond to all early enrollment applicants. 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. 

Summary of Enrollment Paperwork and Deposits Due
    * the non-refundable Registration Fee of $100.00.
    * the Deposit equal to the September tuition amount for your child, also non-refundable
    *an Emergency/Permissions Form with attached Payment Contract
    *a SMART Tuition Enrollment Form (will  be provided to you when needed)  SMART charges a once annual fee of $45 with your first SMART payment.


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.