Outcomes
Pinewoods children in Kindergarten and above are well prepared for the word around them and the years in front of them. Although what is most special about Pinewoods is the peaceful atmosphere in the classroom and the mutual respect of the children for each other and the teachers, Pinewoods children perform exceptionally in academics. That mutual respect lays a foundation for independent exploration academically. Pinewood's curriculum regularly has kindergartners reading chapter books, doing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, etc.
Kindergartners and elementary students in 2007 took the Woodcock Johnson III, a nationally normed assessment with higher expectations for children than North Carolina's state assessments. Percentile scores define the percent of American
students of the same age that Pinewood's students outperformed.
Mean Percentile Median Percentile
Basic Reading Skills
Kindergarten 97% 99%
Elementary 98% 95.6%
Reading Comprehension
Kindergarten 93% 98%
Elementary 90% 89%
Written Expression
Kindergarten 99.9% 99.9%
Elementary 98% 99.2%
Math Calculation
Kindergarten 97% 100%
Elementary 88% 93%
Math Reasoning
Kindergarten 83% 84%
Elementary 87% 87%
What do we mean by "Pinewood's children are well prepared for the world around them?"
The Montessori curriculum was compared to the traditional classroom in a recent study published in Science. The study compares outcomes of children at a public inner-city Montessori school with children who attended traditional schools. Results indicate that Montessori education leads to children with better social and academic skills.
