Town Centre Montessori Private Schools (TCMPS),is a private school

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

 in Markham, Ontario

Markham, Ontario

Markham is a town in the Regional Municipality of York, located within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. The population was 261,573 at the 2006 Canadian census...

 founded in 1986. It is one of Canada's largest Montessori-based private schools. It is a co-educational school and includes students from Pre-school to Grade 12/University Prep. The Main Campus is located at 155 Clayton Drive in Markham, Ontario

Markham, Ontario

Markham is a town in the Regional Municipality of York, located within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. The population was 261,573 at the 2006 Canadian census...

 and borders between Markham

Markham, Ontario

Markham is a town in the Regional Municipality of York, located within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. The population was 261,573 at the 2006 Canadian census...

 and Scarborough, Ontario

Scarborough, Ontario

Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...

. It currently has three campuses in Markham: the Main Campus, the Amarillo Campus, and the Milliken Campus.

Two Teachers per Class Program

TCMPS has a special program called "Two Teachers per Class", in which each classroom literally gets two teachers, a head teacher and a co-teacher. The teacher teaches most of the school work while the co-teacher assists the head teacher in doing so. This is the main reason why TCMPS boasts of such a high teacher per student rate. Students in Grades One through Six, the Core subjects of English, Mathematics, Science, History and Geography are taught by their regular classroom teachers. Meanwhile, students in Grade Seven and Eight have a rotary teaching schedule. This is when specialist teachers in Math, Language, Science, History and Geography teach the students. Students in Grades One through Eight have specialist teachers for Computer Studies, Physical Education, French and Music/Band.