Our Campus
Whether decorated with vibrant colors in the spring or blanketed in white during the winter months, our serene 20 acre campus provides a learning sanctuary with its rolling hills, wooded trails, stream, and gardens.
Our main building houses our students ages 2- 12 years old, home to six spacious, light-filled classrooms with equally bright connecting corridors.
Our Middle School for students ages 12-14 has its own building on campus, containing break out spaces for individual or small group use with sound dampening curtains, a stage for creative self expression, a 3-D Printer, and Chromebooks for shared students use. Nearby gardens are maintained by students and a partnership with Blueberry Gardens allows for more extensive work opportunities.
Each classroom tends to their own garden, learning to care for the plants from seeds to harvesting and watching the pollinators they draw.
Our new property, purchased in 2024, will allow us to continue our commitment to the outdoor environments, offering additional opportunities for older students.
Commitment to Sustainability
In 2023, Mater Amoris gained it's Green School designation by the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE). Maryland Green Schools connect students to nature and encourage them to become stewards of the natural environment. At Mater Amoris, this program empowers students to create positive environmental change, promote and practice sustainability, and gain awareness about the intersections between our environment, society, and public health. By learning about our environment on different levels and from different perspectives, children can begin to understand their place in it and how they can best preserve our world.
In 2023, Mater Amoris applied for a grant through the Clean Water Montgomery Grant Program, which is funded by the Chesapeake Bay Trust and EPA. We were awarded funds to install permeable pavers on a portion of the driveway. Permeable pavers are beneficial to a landscape because they will reduce stormwater runoff and increase the amount of water infiltrating into groundwater. Increasing the amount of permeable surfaces on our campus is part of Mater Amoris' commitment to sustainability.
In the Spring of 2024, Mater Amoris' new driveway was constructed. Thank you to Ms. Sophie Peet and all Mater Amoris staff that aided the process and completion of our ongoing project to transform our campus as we take more sustainable measures.
