The Homestead School is a Montessori School with campuses located in Glen Spey and Hurleyville, NY, offering children ages 3 years to 18 years (Pre-K through 12th grade) a unique, life-enriching, humanitarian, and outdoor-oriented educational experience. The School is located in the directors' century-old family homestead on eighty-five acres of fields, woods, marshes, ponds and streams, twelve mi
les northwest of Port Jervis, New York. The school is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Our mission is to Our mission is to nurture self-motivated students whose love of learning will carry through into a lifetime of responsible and constructive contributions to the well-being of their fellow humans and the Earth. The Homestead School educates the body, mind, and spirit of children through experiential learning, while holding high standards in academics and character development. Homestead offers an engaging academic environment, grounded in the Montessori approach and the belief that all children have the innate desire and ability to learn. Non-discriminatory, non-sectarian, and associated with the American Montessori Society, the Homestead School offers its students Montessori based programs for children Pre-K through 12th grade.