An academically rigorous yet loving environment. It is amazing to hear your six year old singing to herself in Mandarin. The immersion in languages is mind-opening for parents as well as kids.At the New Century School, Montessori principles blend with an emphasis on both sides of the brain (outstanding arts and creative outlets AND strong science and mathematics).The teachers and staff are superb. The environment, a restored parochial school building, is comfortable and beautiful. After-care activities spark fun and imagination. They also use the surrounding neighborhood as part of the classroom (e.g., an impromptu field trip to tour the Pride of Baltimore when it sails up to a nearby wharf.)We are very lucky to have this new school established in the heart of the city.

We have been so happy with TNCS since our son started last summer when he turned 2. Our son is quite reserved and risk-averse, and the learning environment provided by his preschool teachers helped him to thrive and soar this past year. We have seen him grow in leaps and bounds: language development, self-esteem/confidence, independence, and overall happiness. He talks about school with so much excitement, and he loves his teachers and friends. Each morning when we arrive at school, we are greeted with smiles, and a special hello from all. The school staff have known our sons name since the beginning, which makes us feel welcome and a real part of the school community. There is nothing a parent could want more than to drop their child off for the day knowing that he is going to have a great time and be loved and nurtured to grow into his best self. We know that the methods used by teachers at TNCS are the way to go for our family. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.

Wonderful place. Our daughter loves it here.

Only one because I can not write zero. Stay away!!!!Note!! on your interview if you sense that they are disingenuous .....please believe your gut feeling!!!! They are disingenuous .It felt great the first few months because I was fooled by the fake smiles and empty promises but I grew weary as I saw poor academic results . I realized that the happiness I experienced was based on a mirage and not truly reality.I wished I had followed my gut feeling and not wasted a year of my childrens time. I removed my daughters after the first year as the teachers seemed agitated by reasonable questions that my wife and I had. The school admin is disorganized, teachers are always late and illiterate. I accepted this at first because I excused them as English was not their first language but the Chinese teachers especially the head teacher can not speak or communicate in English to us or chinese to my girls and can not teach proficiently.The spanish head teacher spoke the worst accent in spanish, I was appalled by the ghetto spanish my children were taught, they sounded like a drunken man.Admin is deaf, dismissive, extremely dishonest and very vindictive. When I started asking questions my children they stopped speaking to me and my kids started coming home dirty and hungry and they both all of a sudden started doing poorly, they blamed us and my kids saying they were tired and took no responsibility for not teaching my girls.My daughter was very unhappy and came home with unexplained bruises / injuries as the staff tried to tell me they did not see how that happened and that the kids were supervised . I went there several days in the mornings and evenings and the kids were not supervised. If that is not scary enough older kids were there with preK kids. I felt unsafe for my young girls on the play ground with older boys.