Campaign to Complete the Community

The Montessori Community School has a wonderful history of great generosity from its parents and friends. This generosity has enabled MCS in recent years to grow and build new facilities.

The Campaign to Complete the Community was Montessori Community School's $4 million expansion project. The Campaign has already resulted in a 'green' built Adolescent Program and Upper Elementary building, a Multipurpose Gymnasium and elementary late day room, wetlands, natural habitats, enlarged sports fields, as well as associated furniture and equipment and the acquisition of 4 acre property adjoining the school. The new Fine Arts building includes an art studio, music studio, teachers' workroom, storage, foyer and elaborate transitional spaces opening to the outdoors.

Indoor facilities have been designed to underscore each child's connection to the natural world, provide an aesthetically pleasing space in which to live and work, integrate energy conservation strategies, be cost effective to operate, use durable, nontoxic materials, provide the highest quality direct and indirect natural light, capture rainwater from rooftop surfaces to drip irrigate athletic fields and flush toilets.

Outdoor constructed wetland habitats improve water quality using green principles, nurture biodiversity (introducing novel and sustainable flora and fauna to the MCS campus), and address community concerns for storm water runoff by increasing our capacity to retain rainwater on site by 200 to 300 percent. The wetlands will provide students with accessible living wetland laboratories for the study of ecology, biology, chemistry and other related sciences.

The Campus Master Plan

Having collected opinions from the community last year, the Campus Master Plan Committee of the Board prepared a draft Campus Concept Plan, working with Josh Gurlitz and the local firm of GGA Associats, endorsed by the Board and presented to the community in May, 2009. View the Campus Master Concept Plan. The committee is currently formulating a landscaping plan working with nationally known landscape architect Robin Moore at NC State University.

MCS Strategic Planning

Having collected opinions from the community two years ago, the Strategic Planning Committee of the Board prepared a final draft Strategic Plan passed by the Board of Trustees in December, 2008. View the Strategic Plan.

MCS Annual Fund

The Annual Fund at MCS offers parents a tax-deductible opportunity to contribute to school operational costs, thereby reducing tuition increases and providing exceptional experiences, like the Opera and visiting artists. The Annual Fund goal is part of the Operating Budget each year, as approved by the Board of Trustees. The response to and success of the Annual Fund continues to be invigorating for all the school. Every gift to the Annual Fund enriches the student body's experience at MCS.

Montessori Community Association

The Montessori Community Association (MCA) is the parent/teacher organization at Montessori Community School. The MCA provides a wide variety of community building and service efforts to improve the overall experience of families who are a part of our school community. Part of its efforts are small fundraising projects which enable the MCA to select "extra" items or programs to enhance the MCS experience; in past year, such "extras" included outdoor umbrellas, picnic tables, landscaping, music risers, Fast ForWord computer license, ice cream socials and the school's activity bus.

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