Founded in 2005 Durango Montessori School is a private, non-profit school for PreK- 5th graders. To provide an education center for children in grades preschool through fifth grade according to the principles and philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori. It is the adopted belief of Durango Montessori, Inc. that appropriate education received at these ages is the most valuable education in the whole of a lifetime, and Durango Montessori Inc. intends to provide each child with warm, nurturing, didactically prepared environments supervised and maintained by teachers trained in the Montessori Method and consistent with Montessori philosophy. Durango Montessori Inc.'s goal is to promote emotional, social and intellectual development in order to meet the needs of the whole child.