Tyndale Primary School Competitors

Our academic, social skill emphasis approach prepares your child not only with knowledge, but skills that will help the child to cope in everyday situations. Gateway Academy integrates social skills training into the curriculum, on a daily, hourly, and by the minute basis. Teaching children to be able to communicate, negotiate, and express themselves clearly, to make good choices and to be able to ask for what they want is one of our main focuses. Children's future success and well-being rests on how effectively they can navigate through the many situations they will be faced with throughout life. Within Gateway Academy you will discover a growing group of active, happy babies, toddlers and children who are learning daily how to make friends and to be a friend.

Evergreen School is an independent, co-educational Montessori school for children ages 2 to third grade. Evergreen's mission is to prepare our students to be independent thinkers, lifetime learners, and responsible citizens in an ever-changing world. At Evergreen, children are loved and known by caring, professional teachers. We offer a calm, organized place to learn and grow. Classrooms are communities that respect each child's learning styles. Founded in 1964 as The Montessori Children's House in the District of Columbia, Evergreen is dedicated to the philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori, which recognizes a child's need to learn basic academic skills, observe the environment, do independent work, and cooperate in a community. Now located in Maryland, Evergreen School conveniently serves the greater Kensington/ Wheaton/ Silver Spring area as well as the surrounding suburbs and D.C. Evergreen provides a safe, diverse, family-centered environment where differences are respected and all cultures honored. A strong academic program, which begins with the youngest children, is balanced by visual and performing arts.

Golden Valley School is an internationally accredited educational institution with grades from Pre-Kindergarten through Eleventh grade. Our facilities consist of our early learning, primary, middle school and high school buildings, school library, computer lab, science lab, a cafeteria, soccer field, art room, and auditorium.