Admissions

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University Heights Montessori [UHM] is pleased to offer you with a virtually "paperless" Admissions process that will allow you to apply for admissions, schedule a tour and track the status of your application online through one centralized location. 

To start the admissions process, please select "Submit Application". 

The application deadline for the 2025-26 school year is  December 31, 2024. 

Applications for the 2024-25 school year are unfortunately closed at this time. Please contact us if you have any questions. - Thank You!
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Application Submission Guide

Application Submission
Guide

Thank you for considering University Heights Montessori [UHM] for your child's early level Montessori education. In an effort to support you through the application submission process, we would like to share with you below some information that will help guide you step by step throughout the process.

Application Steps:
1. To start the online admissions process and explore all of our application enrollment options, please select "Submit Application".

2. Please "Create an Account". A verification email will be immediately sent to you. After verifying your account please select "Get Started". Follow the prompts and fill out the basic inquiry information required to "Add a Student" to your account and complete your parent/guardian profile.

Please Note: Creating an account does not commit you to applying to UHM and you are not required to complete any further forms until and unless you are ready to submit your completed application to UHM.

3. Please select San Francisco Bay Area as your primary region. [UHM is located within the San Francisco Bay Area region which includes Menlo Park.] Once complete, you should find yourself within the "Dashboard" section of Ravenna's website. We recommend that you select the box to the right titled "Take Tour". This will provide you with a very quick overview of all the options you see within the Dashboard and how to properly apply for admissions. As a reminder, please make sure that the appropriate school year is selected in the top right hand corner of the page prior to selecting to "Apply to a School". When you select "Apply to a School", please choose University Heights Montessori" from the populated list of schools and select either to "Explore" or "Apply".

4. Afterwards, please follow the prompts and complete the necessary and required information. Once complete, you are now ready to choose your desired program, schedule for an event/tour and submit your application and pay the non-refunable application fee to add your child to our waitlist .

Please Note: You may start these forms, leave them partially finished, and return to them at any time; they are not received or viewable by us until you press the "Submit" button. Parents with multiple children are required to complete and submit a separate application for each child.

If you should have any questions with regard to your online application through Ravenna, please feel free to contact us at: 650.854.6993.

Customer Support for your online application is always available through Ravenna, too.

If you are using the Ravenna online admission portal and have any questions related to the online features and how to use them, you may also contact Ravenna Customer Support at any time by emailing; help@ravennasolutions.com.

The Future Begins Today

"Montessori is an education for independence, preparing not just for school, but for life." - Maria Montessori

Value Relationships

Although our paperless admissions process at UHM may be "GREEN", we truly value the opportunity to get to know you, your child and family while also making sure that you get to know more about us and our Montessori school and program. 

Please feel free to contact us directly as we enjoy having the opportunity to introduce ourselves and with getting to know you and your family better.

University Heights Montessori [UHM] has a rolling admissions process and is open to children of all eligible ages. Admissions are based on availability of space and is offered to children who are between the ages of 2 to 6 years by September 1st of the respective school year. Students are accepted for the full academic school year.


In order to achieve balanced classrooms, we take into consider the ratio of boys to girls, ages, and full-time and part-time students. When accepting students, UHM will give first priority to the siblings of our currently enrolled students. Any remaining vacancies will be filled from the pool of applicants on our waitlist.


University Heights Montessori [UHM] does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, age, physical challenge, national origin, gender, disability, or any other characteristic in the administration of its educational programs, admission policies and other school-related administered programs.

UHM will start to notify the families of the students on our waitlist about our acceptance decisions in February and March. All acceptance decisions are published privately through Ravenna to each family. Families can view their child's acceptance decision by signing into their Ravenna account. Acceptance decisions are viewable within the dashboard on the left hand column of the page where it says "Decisions" under your child's name. If your child does not receive admissions, you will have the one-time option to maintain your place on our waitlist by rolling over your child's application to the following school year.


Acceptance decisions are typically released in 3 different stages and usually within one to two weeks of each other. If you do not receive an immediate admissions decision in the initial stage, please do not worry as you will receive a decision in one of the following stages.


For those families who choose to remain on our waitlist: With a rolling admissions process, we will look to fill any vacancies that may come available during our academic school year. When an opening in our Montessori program comes available, a member of our admissions team will contact the next applicant on our waitlist and notify them of their child’s acceptance into our program.

UHM would love to accept every student who applies to our Montessori school and program; however we are limited by the number of spaces we have available each year. If we are unable to offer admissions to your child for the requested school year, UHM will rollover your child's application at no additional cost to the following school year at your personal request. If we do not receive your request or if you request not to have your child's application rollover to the following school year, we will remove your child's application from our waitlist.