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PEAR TREE PRESCHOOL & COMMUNITY SCHOOL

CURRENT OPENINGS FOR SPRING 2024

PRESCHOOL, TK, K-5 

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
FOR 2025-2026
PRESCHOOL, TK, K-5

WELCOME TO

PEAR TREE COMMUNITY

SCHOOLS

A new world requires a new way of learning.

THE PEAR TREE

PRESCHOOL

The Pear Tree Preschool has a unique blended curricular approach utilizing traditional Montessori, nature-based

and play-based philosophies to guide

its framework of early childhood development.

Toddler Class [Ages 2  - 3.5 years]

Primary Class [Ages 3.5 - 5]

PEAR TREE

COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Pear Tree Community School is a social justice-informed Montessori school located in Rockridge in Oakland. We emphasize problem solving through project-based learning. Students interact with hands-on materials to deepen critical thinking, literacy, and high level math skills.

Currently enrolling Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten, and Kindergarten classes for the 2024-2025 academic year. 

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You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?"

These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them.

You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.

---- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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