IvyCrest Montessori Private School — Fullerton Campus

Overview

IvyCrest Montessori Private School — Fullerton Campus is an independent, non-sectarian K-8 private school in Fullerton, California, serving grades K-6, founded in 1970, with about 77 students. The school does not publish tuition; ask for current figures when you book a visit.

Admissions

Entrance exam requirements are not published; contact admissions.

The school publishes the following application details. Applications are accepted year-round, and students are admitted as space allows. February 1 through March 15 each year is the priority re-enrollment window for current students, and the school website recommends that new families apply before March 15 to compete for places for the following school year. The process: call the Fullerton campus at (714) 879-6091 to schedule a tour and meet with the campus director; complete the Fullerton application; the director sends the remaining enrollment forms and the contract; and three meetings are scheduled, one with the homeroom teacher, a school orientation and a financial orientation. The school website does not mention an entrance test or a student interview (school website, Admissions page, Enrollment Procedures page)

The main entry points at a K-8 school are kindergarten and grade 6. Younger applicants are usually evaluated through an on-campus visit, while most applicants above grade 5 need an ISEE score. Start in the fall of the year before entry: visit first to confirm the school is a fit, then decide whether to register for testing.

Tuition and fees

The school website does not publish tuition. The Admissions page places tuition in the tour: “After you have finished the tour of the campus, you will have an opportunity to discuss tuition rates, fees, and services.” To get a price for K-6 at the Fullerton campus, call (714) 879-6091 to schedule a tour (school website, Admissions page)

The International Student Admissions page on the school website mentions a non-refundable application fee at enrollment but gives no amount (school website, International Student Admissions page)

Financial aid: The school website does not say whether the school offers financial aid of its own. The Financial Assistance page says only that families in need of assistance should contact the campus director, or check the links below to see whether they qualify, and then lists four outside channels: CalWORKS, Children’s Home Society of California, Orange County Department of Education and Child Care Aware of America. On the other hand, the non-discrimination statement on the Admissions page refers to the school’s scholarships, which suggests some form of school-based assistance exists, but the school website has no page describing it. Confirming this means contacting the campus director directly (school website, Financial Assistance page, Admissions page).

Academics and programs

• Three-year mixed-age Montessori elementary levels: Lower Elementary for ages 6-9 and Upper Elementary for ages 9-12 (school website, Lower Elementary and Upper Elementary pages)
• The elementary curriculum is divided along Montessori lines into Language, Mathematics, Geometry, Botany, Zoology, History and Geography, with Montessori materials including grammar boxes, the bank game, the stamp game, the bead frame, the checkerboard, the geometry cabinet and the Timeline of Man (school website, Lower / Upper Elementary pages)
• The lower grades take on American subject-matter projects such as State Reports, the Oregon Trail, the California Mission Project and memorizing passages of the Constitution (school website, Lower Elementary page)
• Upper elementary math extends to fractions, powers, interest, percentages, decimals, square roots and cube roots, and geometry to area, perimeter, volume and theorems (school website, Upper Elementary page)
• School of the Arts, an after-school arts academy for ages 2-12: piano, art, martial arts, dance and voice in one-on-one or small group lessons, plus drama and visual design (school website, School of the Arts page)
• The school day includes computer, art, music and games every day, and the school website also mentions an etiquette class (school website, Admissions page, International Student Admissions page)

How this school compares

These are the nearest schools at the same level and a comparable price. Select a name to open that school’s admissions guide:

School	City	Grades	Tuition	Entrance test	Class size	Distance
IvyCrest Montessori Private School — Fullerton Campus	Fullerton	K-6	Not published	—	—	—
Minaret Academy	Anaheim	K-8	Not published	On-campus assessment	—	1.6 mi
St. Angela Merici Parish School	Brea	K-8	Not published	—	—	2.6 mi
Arborland Montessori Children’s Academy — Valencia Dr. Campus	Fullerton	K-6	Not published	—	—	3.6 mi
St. Joseph Catholic School	Placentia	K-8	$8,495	On-campus assessment	20	1.6 mi

Getting there from Irvine

These are straight-line distances from neighborhoods where many Irvine families live. Actual drive times will be longer, and a morning rush-hour trip typically takes 1.5 to 2 times as long as an off-peak one:

Neighborhood	Straight-line distance
Woodbury	14.9 miles
Northwood	12.4 miles
Turtle Rock	17.2 miles
Portola Springs	15.8 miles

The website does not describe bus service; confirm this during your visit.

Questions to ask on a campus visit

• Tuition — the school website deliberately places tuition in the campus visit, in the words of the Admissions page, “After you have finished the tour of the campus, you will have an opportunity to discuss tuiti…
• Financial aid — the Financial Assistance page puts contacting the campus director and checking the outside channels in the same sentence, and the non-discrimination statement on the Admissions page refers to scholar…
• Average class size — the About Us, Academics and Admissions pages on the school website give no class size or student-teacher ratio
• Enrollment — the school website carries no enrollment figure, so the California Department of Education 2025-26 filing figure of 77 students in K-6 is used
• Registration, technology, uniform and activity fees beyond tuition

How EDUBUS helps

Our Irvine-based counselors work in both Chinese and English. We track IvyCrest Montessori Private School — Fullerton Campus’s admissions calendar, prepare students for the campus visit and interview, and review application materials before they are submitted. Book a school-selection consultation or read the Chinese version of this page.