The schools parents chose most in the city during the period. Each family counts once per school for each action: a tour request (1 point), a booked tour (2 points) and saving the school (1 point). Parent votes will be added when voting opens; until then they count for nothing.
Minimum: at least 10 families active in the city in a quarter (25 in a year), and at least 3 families behind a winning school (5 in a year).
The schools that answer parents best: the share of parent tour requests answered within 7 days, then the median time to answer. Answering means accepting the request, saying there is no space, replying by email or from the request page, or proposing tour times. Opening the email doesn't count.
Minimum: a school needs at least 3 requests in a quarter (6 in a year) and must have answered at least 75% of them; at least 2 schools in the city must have enough requests to compare. Requests from the last 7 days before we compute are left out until the school has had the full 7 days.
Not given yet. It will be added when the Montessori City Index is published, so that it rests on more than review counts.
It depends on the number of Montessori schools listed in the city: 0–14 schools: 1; 15–39 schools: 2; 40 or more schools: 3. When a city doesn't have enough data, we give no award there that period rather than a weak one.
Quarterly awards are published in the first week after the quarter ends (the first is Q4 2026, October to December, published in January 2027). Yearly awards start with 2027 and are published the following January.
The computation doesn't read plans, Featured placements, memberships or payments. A school on a paid plan gets exactly the same result it would get without one. See also how we rank schools.
Badges from Montessori Gateway and Montessori Media are decided by those organizations under their own rules; their badges link to their own pages.