IRVINE'S ORIGINAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL opened in 1976 for the owner's own children and remains a model of high-quality early childhood education. As the Montessori Schools of Irvine demonstrated outstanding success in social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development, parents asked to continue past preschool. Thus, Village Montessori now maintains an extraordinary program for children from three years of through third grade, drawing children from our other school's kindergarten graduates!