We're a regular Canadian family based in Mississauga, Ontario. When our daughter reached school age, we did what every parent does — we started searching. We typed "Montessori school near me" into Google and got a long list of results with no real way to compare, no way to know which schools were actually accredited, and no clear picture of what was near our home.
That search took us weeks. We visited schools that had moved. We called numbers that were disconnected. We found beautiful programs we never knew existed — only after driving past them by accident. We felt lost in a process that should have been joyful.
The pain points every Montessori family knows
No central resource
Schools were scattered across Google Maps, Facebook groups, and outdated blog posts. There was no single place to find everything.
Hard to verify
Any school can call itself "Montessori." It was nearly impossible to tell which programs were genuinely AMI, AMS, or CCMA accredited.
No local view
We kept landing on national directories showing schools across Canada — but we only needed schools within 20 minutes of our home.
No way to compare
Even when we found a Montessori school, we couldn't tell how it compared with the others nearby — tuition, programs and availability were scattered or simply not published.
Our mission
We built MontessoriCity because we believe no family should spend weeks doing what should take minutes. Every parent who chooses Montessori is making a thoughtful, values-driven decision for their child — they deserve a tool that matches that intention.
Our goal is simple: help families find and compare the Montessori schools near them, with clear and honest information, and help good Montessori schools be found by the families already looking for them.
"We didn't set out to build a big directory. We set out to solve a problem we lived through ourselves — and to make sure the next family in our neighbourhood has an easier time than we did."
— The Miranda Family, founders of MontessoriCity
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada