Welcome to Alsion Montessori

Alsion Montessori Middle/High School offers a three year program of education specifically designed to meet the academic and social needs of adolescents (ages 12 through 15.)  With an enrollment of fewer than forty students, we can focus on the individual needs of each adolescent as he or she undergoes the critical transformation from child to young adult. While Alsion covers grades 7, 8 and 9, the School has the teaching expertise and resources to advance motivated students well beyond State of California standards for these grade levels.

Alsion's Early College High School program enables our students to achieve two years of college credit at Ohlone College while earning a high school diploma at Alsion.

Alsion Montessori Middle/High is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

Alsion is located in the Mission San Jose District of Fremont, California, near the intersection of Washington and Mission Boulevards, one block north of the Ohlone College campus.

The Facility

Alsion Annex is an all new, state of the art, 4200 square feet building, designed specifically for the needs of the Middle/High School program. It opened for classes in September, 2002. "The Annex" has a large multi-purpose "Commons" with an adjoining lunch counter/student kitchen; a fully equipped laboratory for physical and life sciences; a reference library including computer workstations with highspeed internet connection; an art studio for working with traditional media, digital arts (graphics and video) and ceramics. 

Alsion Montessori Foundation is currently developing a second campus location adjacent to Ohlone College. Alsion's "second campus" will facilitate our Early College High School students attending Ohlone College.

At Alsion, all grade levels and ages are combined into a single learning community of 30 to 40 students, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls. About half of our students attended Montessori elementary and preschool programs.

Unlike many large schools that rotate their students through classes taught by different instructors every 55 minutes, Alsion keeps students with the same team of full-time teachers for three years.

There are several advantages to this approach:

• Our teachers get to know each student, so they can offer effective guidance through the inevitable challenges of growing up and learning to accept responsibility.
• All the students interact with each other on a daily basis -- working on projects, playing on teams, having lunch at the same table. Alsion's campus culture is remarkably constructive, inclusive and cohesive. 
• The tribal insults and cliques that typify adolescent behavior are minimal.  Students are free to focus on intellectual concerns rather than worry about who's cool and popular and who is not.