Armatage Montessori School... Promotes a safe, nurturing, child-centered learning environment. Provides a curriculum based on the theory that the materials used should cultivate a child's own natural desire to learn. Features highly qualified and talented teachers, all with Montessori certification. Offers free, full-day kindergarten for all students. Enjoys tremendous parental involvement and community support.

Armatage Montessori is an intimate public magnet school in Southwest Minneapolis. It has the distinction of being the only elementary school in south Minneapolis offering a free Montessori education. The Montessori curriculum provides a caring, nurturing environment for your child using the teaching philosophy developed by Dr. Maria Montessori. Her methods and philosophy have proven effective for over one hundred years. Montessori education is not a system of teaching, but a method of helping children in the total development of their personalities during a fundamental period of development.