Tuition

2025 Little Explorer Montessori Tuition as of Jan 2025

 

Little Explorer Montessori is opted-in to the Canada-Wide Early Learning Child Care Agreement (CWELCC), https://www.ontario.ca/page/canada-ontario-early-years-and-child-care-agreement, and is collaborating with the Federal, Provincial, and Regional governing bodies to benefit our school community.

 

CWELCC Approved Daily Base Tuition Rates for 2025 January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025, unless otherwise advised.
Program	Hours	LEM Daily Base Rate/Child	CWELCC Discounted Daily Base Rate/Child	January 2025 - December 2025 21.75 days/month
Toddler Full-Time 18months to 30months	7:00 a.m. – 5:30p.m.	$56.75	$22.00	$478.50
Pre School-Full-Time 2.5years to 6years	7:00 a.m. – 5:30p.m.	$52.75	$22.00	$478.50

 

 

Base Rate Program and Non-Base Rate	Program
Full-Time Program 7:00am to 5:30pm A.M Snack Lunch P.M Snack (A.M and P.M Snacks are not full meal replacements they are snacks) Before School Care 7:00am to 8:30am After School Care 4:00pm to 5:30pm	Base Rate
Late pick up Fees ($50 per occurrence after 5:30p.m.) Live Streaming $24 monthly Non-Sufficient Funds Fee ($50 per occurrence) Special Events (advised as they occur) Expenses not eligible for CWELCC funding (advised as required)	Non-Base Rate

2025 School Year Tuition

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•Little Explorer Montessori has the right to charge full tuition rates if funding is not received by the end of the month. In which case, as much notice as possible will be provided.

•Little Explorer Montessori has the right to opt-out of the CWELCC Program and revert to full tuition rates. In which case, 60 days’ notice will be provided.

 

 

 

 

 

Discounted Daily Base Rate Eligibility

•Those accepting Region of Waterloo Fee Subsidy may also receive a discount on their parental contribution. This will be advised on a case-per-case basis by their case worker.

Highlights

 

•Meals include a warm, nutritious lunch, healthy a.m. snack and p.m. snack. These a.m. and p.m. snacks are not full meals, they are snacks.

•Little Explorer Montessori has two mixed age classrooms. Each room has 24 children when operating at full capacity with three educators in each classroom. Teacher to student ration is 1 to 8.

•Each classroom has 5 toddlers each and rest 19 pre schoolers.

•Classroom operates at reduced ratio in morning from 7:00am to 8:30am with (1 to 12) and reduced ratio in the evening 4:30pm to 5:30pm (1 to 12)

•We take $250 as a deposit on each enrollment which is applied towards child’s last month tuition when 30days of noticed is provided as per Enrollment Policy.

o Tuition & fees must be paid for every day the student is enrolled, including days absent for any reason including vacations, illness, statutory holidays, school closures, Winter Break.

•Refer to the School Calendar for important dates:

o Little Explorer Montessori is closed for Winter Break for 2 weeks.

o Little Explorer Montessori is open during Summer Camp.