Why does Spring Hill Montessori have one class?
In 1993 when Mark and Victoria first looked into opening a top quality preschool in Cambridge they ran up against two obstacles. First, the City of Cambridge requires preschools to be located in business zones, and second, the Massachusetts Office for Child Care Services requires 75 square ft. of playground space per child. Commercial space with the required playground was impossible to find in the city. Undeterred, the Olivas decided to convert the second floor of their two-family house into classrooms and license the school as a large family childcare. The one class of ten children allows the pupils to have a variety of social interactions across age and gender lines; a dynamic that decreases as the number of children in the class increases.
