First Montessori School

The oldest Montessori school in the Southeast, FMSA was set up in 1963 to supply the highest level of Montessori education, serving ages 1 - years to 14 years. A group of visionary Atlanta parents, searching for an alternative to traditional education for their kids, began a tiny Montessori classroom of eight students in the basement of Pace Academy. The parents sawed the legs off adult furniture to create appropriately sized seats and tables for the classroom. They sent a teacher to training in Europe.