Bright Star Montessori Academy

Bright Star Montessori Academy offers interactive hands-on activities that include Science, Computer, Cooking, music, and foreign language classes such as Spanish and Sign language. The program includes a Montessori preschool enrichment program and The Extended Day Care, with both half and full day child care options. Classrooms use high quality Montessori materials, and activities are offered for both infant and older child groups.

• Ages: 0–6 years old
• Schedule: Open 7:00AM–6:00PM, all year round and all summer long (besides National Holidays)

Bright Star Montessori Academy offers an Infant Program for ages 0–2, a Toddler Program for ages 2–3, a Preschool Program for ages 3–5, and a Kindergarten Program for ages 5–6. The program serves infant ages 0–2 years old and children ages 2–6 years old, and staff will do potty training for children ages 2–6 years old. Free weekly enrichment programs include Science, Computer, Cooking, music, and foreign language classes including Spanish and Sign language.

Bright Star Montessori Academy is an authentic Montessori school with fully qualified and dedicated teachers. All head teachers have a Montessori Certification and many years of experience teaching the Montessori Method, and all teachers pass a rigorous screening and fingerprinting process. The school states that it is passionate about freeing each child’s potential and nurturing curiosity, creativity, and imagination, and it promotes respect, independence, and enthusiasm for learning. Its environment is described as integrating concrete and abstract learning to develop culturally literate children, while stimulating curiosity, sparking creativity, and enriching intelligence so that children will “BE THE BRIGHTEST THEY CAN BE!” BSMA has nurtured students for 13 years in the city of Walnut.

Bright Star Montessori Academy operates in a newly remodeled facility with a beautiful extra large playground for different age groups with an abundance of engaging activities. It is a state licensed facility with license numbers 198016418 and 198017169, and it is licensed in California. The school also has a sister school called Bright Star Montessori Preschool located in Ontario.

Last updated July 1, 2026.