Roots of Excellence Community Montessori is the first Pan-African Montessori school in Jackson Ward, Richmond, Virginia. We teach children to farm, build, calculate, and create through the lens of African intellectual tradition, from infancy through elementary. This is rigorous, identity-affirming education rooted in the science, mathematics, and culture African people have always produced.

In this first 3–6 classroom, children will begin their journeys in a warm, environment designed by educators who are passionate about the development of Black children and families across the diaspora.Here, rigorous, science-backed early childhood education thrives through the beauty of both local and global African culture, giving our youngest learners a place to think, build, question, and belong from their very first school experience.