LePort is one of the best Montessori schools around, we know that. But the Westpark campus in particular is awesome.We are there for a year and a half now, and we are very satisfied.Ana and Yatziri are thoughtful, respectful and hard working. Communication with parents, event planning and day-to-day activities are great.We were also very lucky to get two great teachers and some good assistants who were essential for the childrens adaptation and development.The vibe is positive, the energy is good. Children obviously feel that, so they go and come back happy every day.Very pleased with this campus. I recommend 100%.

As a parent I am so happy to write a review for one of the best Montessori Schools in Irvine. Leport Montessori School, Westpark is a perfect amalgamation of academic, culture appreciation, and socialization. The Montessori programs Kindergarten/ Preschool/ Lower Elementary have well structured curriculum. They also have music, sports, arts, field work as part of their curriculum.Here at Leport, they foster independence, creativity, theoretical and practical learning in all of their students. The entire staff is determined in guiding each child to discover and improvise their strengths They encourage the children to undertake new tasks/challenges and experience themselves the difficulty/ ease to complete that task. This develops their analytical thinking and promotes learning.Ms. Ana, Head of the school, is dynamic and meticulous in her work. The administrative staff is always helpful and supportive. The teachers are so kind and caring that the children love to be at school. Special thanks to Ms. Lorine for making a smooth transition for my daughter from Kindergarten to lower elementary classroom.My daughter started her schooling at Leport as Preschooler. We moved out of US after her first year of lower elementary. Through these years, I am really astonished to see her progress. She has developed as an independent, bright and confident child who is always willing to learn new things and take new challenges. She is no more shy and reserved in interacting with people around.During the COVID outbreak, Leport Montessori continued their distance learning sessions. Also, when the lockdown was uplifted, they strove hard to start the in-person learning for the kids enrolled. They successfully completed one year through these uncertain times following all guidelines and rules laid down by CDC. They scrupulously followed social distancing, compulsory masks, regular temperature check, sanitization protocols. I am really happy to have been associated with Leport Community for past 4 years. At Leport, it is like giving a child best chance to start, learn and grow.I recommend this school with no reservations! Thank You everyone at Leport Montessori, Westpark.

The office staff members are acting like they are in a big corporation- there’s no way any new employee can get information to learn and dedicate/contribute own experience to grow with the company. The most disappointing place in USA.

We enrolled our daughter in LePort Schools, San Marino, after she attended a play-based preschool for one year. I was concerned that the play-based environment was adequately preparing her for grade school, and have long been interested in Montessori teaching methods. We were fortunate to secure a place at this wonderful school, and even more fortunate to enroll in classroom #5 with Miss Diana as the lead teacher.Under her instruction, our daughter has flourished, taking a great interest in math, science and art. Her vocabulary has improved dramatically, and even her invented games have become more elaborate and imaginative.Thank you LePort schools and Miss Diana for ensuring our daughter has the building blocks needed for primary school, for nurturing her curiosity, and for helping her to understand all the cultures that make up the world we live in.

Great school. You wont regret bringing your child here.

LePort Westpark worked well for our child for about 1.5 years (from age 2 to 3.5), but it all came crashing down. In April, 2 teachers were put on leave while the school and DSS investigated allegations of rough handling of children. One was fired; the other ultimately resigned. Shortly after the DSS investigation concluded, the schools director also resigned. Amidst these administrative shall we say challenges (including an interim director), the staff appear to have taken a hands off approach towards the children, no longer effectively encouraging the younger ones to nap (they apparently just deferred to toddlers who refused to nap, even though they were not old enough NOT to nap), and no longer effectively redirecting behaviors. This had substantial and negative consequences for our child, who was no longer napping at school. The school failed to so inform us; nor did they update the nap logs, which were blank for weeks. We only figured it out after we noticed behavioral changes in our child, including the fact that he started passing out stone cold every day on the way home. Instead of misdirecting our sons toddler behaviors at school, or separating him from other children who may have been negatively influencing him, the school just decided to just send him home each day with little notice to us. As a working parent (with a working spouse), this situation was untenable. Moreover, it trained our child TO ACT OUT so that he could be sent home early (since he preferred mom and dad to school), a fact to which the interim director admitted when I confronted her. To us, it seemed like the acting director was trying to force us to move our son rather than put in the work to manage an admittedly higher needs child. Lawyer talk, but it sure sounds like bad faith to me.They also fed our child foods to which he is allergic at least twice. TWICE.We eventually switched to a different school, where our son is currently doing well. Though we had to work hard to re-train him out of the negative incentives he learned at LePort.TL;DR. Run, dont walk away from this campus.

Leport School located at San Marino street in Irvine is truly a great school, which offers high level education and standards to its students. The teachers and management are wonderful, and they not only teach our children but also make them think and prepare for the future.My kid is in classroom no1 where his teacher Ms Dhanani teaches him great lessons in different subject ...

Having enrolled our daughter at LePort Schools, San Marino, we are very pleased with the learning based environment and techniques as part of the Montessori teaching methods.We were very fortunate being assigned classroom # 5 with the lead teacher Ms. Diana, a very skilled educator, who takes genuine interest in the learning of each child providing great motivational techniques to advance the learning skills of our daughter. She is focusing on incremental step improvements, and we are very pleased how far our daugther have progressed after having been with miss Diana for only a short season. We are forever thankful for the building blocks Ms. Diana created, and got our daughter self motatived on additional learning. Special thanks to Ms Diana for making this a such great learning experience.

My son started in the toddler program at Leport Westpart at 1.5 years old. Now he is in the primary program at age 3. In the past 1.5 years, he has made so much progress and I am very thankful to his teachers, Ms. Lorine and Ms. Walker, who are always so patient, observant, loving, caring, always have time to answer my questions over email or in person and always offer very insightful and useful advice. My son didnt want to move up to another class because he loves his teachers so. I have learned a lot as a parent, from the teachers, and from other school events, about the Montessori methods and I love how my son is turning into an independent child who loves to explore. All the staff I have interacted with at the school are very nice and professional. It is more expensive compared to other schools, but I feel it is worth it seeing the positive impact it has had on my son. My daughter will be going to the toddler program in the fall soon. I am excited for her to have the same rich and positive experience that my son had.

We enrolled our son into the toddler program at the LePort Schools, San Marino campus shortly after his second birthday. Over the past two months we have seen so much eagerness to do things myself and are just so impressed by what he is able to do when given the opportunity. The Montessori program is a fantastic methodology that allows children to become self-motivated, patient, disciplined, and respectful beings in society. With a fantastic staff; I know our son is getting the VERY best experience.I have to start by giving a tremendous amount of praise to our sons teacher, Mrs. Flores. She has gone way above and beyond the call of duty to not only help our son get acclimated into the program (he came in mid-year and as the youngest student in his class), but also for the invaluable advice, recommendations, and honest feedback during our one on one conversations. I really appreciate it when someone takes the extra effort (on their own time) to help.Mrs. Flores has eagerly and without any rush, answered so many of my neurotic mommy questions. Her advice is like gold! She helped me turn around the difficult behaviors at home and knew exactly what our son needed. Even though he has only attended mornings these past two months, Mrs. Flores has, without a doubt, identified our son’s personality and knows EXACTLY how to deal with him. Her academic background in psychology and the fact that her mother was a child psychologist clearly shows in her work! She is our son’s first teacher, and I have no doubt she will forever hold the role as the most influential teacher as well!The other teacher in room 2, Mrs. Treisa, also holds a special place in our hearts. Her calm demeanor and sweet smile has clearly won over our son and he always brings her name up in conversation. I think Mrs. Flores and Mrs. Treisa just know what works and have created an environment that is calm, welcoming, warm, and structured. I spent a morning observing the classroom and it was then when I realized how extraordinary this program really is. The children worked quietly and enthusiastically on their work and if they strayed or veered in a different direction, Mrs. Flores kindly reminded them to continue their work or somehow found a way to capture their interest again. It was a really interesting experience for me - you have to see it to believe it. It was a little shocking to see a group of toddlers acting like mini grown-ups. They take their work very seriously. Its absolutely adorable! I think its just a reflection of how much the teachers respect their students and their ability to persevere. You get a sense of everyone is in this together...we are family, and we will respect one another.My experience outside the classroom has also been positive. The head of school, Susan Locke is very involved and seems to know every detail that is going on at the school. Her office door is always open and her warm smile makes it very easy to approach her with any concerns you might have. Ive never seen this woman just sitting at her desk. She is either meeting with a teacher or parent, outside in the parking lot to help direct traffic, in the hallways checking in on all the rooms, or kneeling down to have a meaningful conversation with a child at eye level. Its clear to me that she is not someone that only delegates duties to everyone else. She works just as hard as everyone else and is hands on with her approach.Ashleigh and Nadhira are also two of the sweetest girls you will meet. They always make you feel like VIP and will do everything they can to address all your questions and concerns.The sense I get when I am at the school is that the staff is one big cohesive unit that sets out to better the lives of the students. I couldnt have picked a better place for our childs preschool experience!

School health can also give a star, I thought the school should be warm, there is love, but unfortunately this is not, child in this more than a year the last because fear and not to school, the school said thats what our education, I feel very sorry child，choose the school that such an irresponsible。

Great staff, nice mix of students