Cascades Montessori Middle School

Our Mission

Cascades Montessori Middle School provides adolescents with a loving, engaging, and safe learning environment. Students are able to develop their moral, intellectual, emotional, physical, and social selves and to cultivate the courage and skills necessary to actively participate in their world.

"The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence…For success in life depends in every case on self-confidence and the knowledge of one's own capacity and many-sided powers of adaptation."

Our Vision

CMMS provides adolescents with a rigorous, progressive academic environment that meaningfully connects them to their learning and the world around them. We foster self-discovery and encourage deep, authentic personal connections.

Understanding the needs of the adolescent.

Based on the Montessori Model, CMMS believes in experiential activity to educate the whole child. We provide work that balances intellectual and practical life skills.

Truly connecting students to their world.

Adolescence is a time of identity building and social development. At CMMS, students connect to their social community and the greater world in order to discover their roles in society.

Where students find themselves.

To navigate this critical time of self-discovery, the curriculum is based on purposeful work to build responsibility, community engagement, self-confidence, independence, and personal investment in their education.

A community based on collaboration.

CMMS is a community environment based on the principles of respect, cooperation, and group engagement. Through shared ideas and collaborative work, students strengthen their sense of empathy and moral courage.