How this list is ranked
Centres are ordered by a rating estimate. That is not the raw Google star average: the estimate blends a centre's own average with the average across Toronto, and it weights the two by how many reviews the centre has.
The city average used here is 4.7 stars. It is taken across the 14 Montessori daycares in Toronto that clear the review bar.
A centre with 10 reviews sits exactly half way between its own average and the city average. Past that it leans on its own record. Below it, it leans on the city.
A centre with fewer than 5 Google reviews is never ranked on this page. It can still be a good centre; there is simply not enough evidence to place it against the others, and placing it anyway would be guesswork with a number attached to it.
Google ratings are third party. They are shown as plain text, they are not collected by MapleCub, and they are not marked up as review data anywhere on this page.
The badges below each centre report facts about the listing: whether the provider has claimed it, whether opening hours are published, whether a provincial registry reported an opening, whether the centre is enrolled in CWELCC. None of them change the score. None of them change the order.
10 best-rated Montessori daycares in Toronto
- 1
Montessori Start Inc.
1195 Lawrence Avenue
5.0 stars from 21 Google reviews
Hours published: 07:00 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 5.0, reviews 21, rating estimate 4.9.
- 2
Beach Hill Montessori
2032 Gerrard Street
5.0 stars from 11 Google reviews
Hours published: 08:00 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 5.0, reviews 11, rating estimate 4.9.
- 3
Downtown Montessori At Concord City Place
335 Bremner Boulevard
5.0 stars from 5 Google reviews
CWELCC enrolledScore inputs: rating 5.0, reviews 5, rating estimate 4.8.
- 4
Alive Montessori & Private School
2 Wembley Road
4.8 stars from 56 Google reviews
Hours published: 08:00 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.8, reviews 56, rating estimate 4.8.
- 5
Casa Vera Montessori School
2000 Keele Street
4.8 stars from 24 Google reviews
Hours published: 07:00 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.8, reviews 24, rating estimate 4.8.
- 6
Miracle Montessori School Inc
20 Upjohn Road
4.8 stars from 19 Google reviews
Hours published: 07:30 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.8, reviews 19, rating estimate 4.8.
- 7
Momentum Montessori
237 Sackville Street
4.7 stars from 18 Google reviews
Hours published: 07:30 to 17:30Score inputs: rating 4.7, reviews 18, rating estimate 4.7.
- 8
Tree Of Life Montessori Academy
255 Finch Avenue
4.7 stars from 14 Google reviews
Hours published: 07:00 to 18:00CWELCC enrolledScore inputs: rating 4.7, reviews 14, rating estimate 4.7.
- 9
Bright Minds Childcare & Montessori School
1450 O'Connor Drive
4.6 stars from 21 Google reviews
Score inputs: rating 4.6, reviews 21, rating estimate 4.6.
- 10
Bluebird Montessori School (Mini)
905 Broadview Avenue
4.5 stars from 23 Google reviews
Hours published: 08:00 to 17:30CWELCC enrolledScore inputs: rating 4.5, reviews 23, rating estimate 4.6.
62 more Montessori daycares in Toronto have a MapleCub listing, including the ones with too few reviews to rank. See every daycare in Toronto.
Questions about this list
How many Montessori daycares are there in Toronto?
MapleCub lists 72 Montessori daycares in Toronto. 14 of them have at least 5 Google reviews, which is the bar to be ranked on this page. The top 10 are shown here.
How is this ranking worked out?
Centres are ordered by a rating estimate. That is not the raw Google star average: the estimate blends a centre's own average with the average across Toronto, and it weights the two by how many reviews the centre has. The city average used here is 4.7 stars. It is taken across the 14 Montessori daycares in Toronto that clear the review bar. A centre with 10 reviews sits exactly half way between its own average and the city average. Past that it leans on its own record. Below it, it leans on the city. A centre with fewer than 5 Google reviews is never ranked on this page. It can still be a good centre; there is simply not enough evidence to place it against the others, and placing it anyway would be guesswork with a number attached to it.
What counts as a Montessori centre here?
A centre counts as Montessori here when the word Montessori appears in its own registered name. That is a name test, not an accreditation check. MapleCub does not verify membership of CCMA, AMI or AMS, so a centre on this list may or may not hold one.
Are these MapleCub's own ratings?
No. The star ratings and review counts on this page come from Google, they are shown as plain text, and MapleCub does not collect them, does not adjust them, and does not mark them up as structured review data anywhere on the page. What MapleCub adds is the ordering. The method above says exactly how that is worked out.
How do I check that a centre on this list is licensed?
Every centre on this list is a licensed programme in MapleCub's records, each listing page shows the licence status MapleCub holds for it, and the authoritative record behind both of those is the province's own registry. Look the centre up there by name before you enrol. Confirm the licence is current.
What about the other daycares in Toronto?
868 licensed child care programmes in Toronto have a listing on MapleCub, across every programme type. The city page lists all of them. Filters there cover age group, subsidy and hours.