Situated adjacent to Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, Santa Barbara County. The
Children's Montessori School is ideally positioned to serve, the cities of Lompoc, Orcutt and Santa Maria, and Vandenberg Air
Force Base.
Established in 1981 in classroom space of the First Presbyterian Church, initially as a preschool program, the Children's Montessori School (CMS) provides an enriched educational environment for children ages 2 through 14 years.
CMS's preschool classrooms are licensed by the California State Dept. of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division. The elementary/junior classroom is registered with the California Department of Education and fulfills all requirements for first through eighth grades. Both classrooms and teachers in Vandenberg Village are certified by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI).
As a non-profit corporation CMS families raise funds to help keep tuition at an affordable rate, augment classroom materials and projects and support the school's Performing Arts Program that annually produces a Christmas Program and a summer play. The summer play has become a major community event of professional quality lighting, sound, costumes, and choreography that is recorded to produce a DVD of the performance.