About Montessori Community School Founded in 1980, MCS is fully accredited by the American Montessori Society and Cognia. Our beautifully planned 13-acre wooded campus is located between Durham and Chapel Hill. MCS features sunny, spacious classrooms, a fine arts building for music, art, and ceramics, a sports field, track, numerous playgrounds, and a gymnasium. Montessori Community School strives to be an intentionally diverse campus, comprised of people of different ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, gender identities, family structures, sexual orientations, racial identities, national origins, religions, and abilities. Our community is rooted in the Montessori philosophy of resp