Private Tutoring in Montclair, NJ

Schools we support in Montclair, NJ

Our certified New Jersey teachers work with Montclair students at every level and across every subject, from elementary reading and math to middle school, high school honors and AP courses, and the SAT and ACT. We support families at both the public and independent schools in and around Montclair, and each plan is built around your child's actual classes, assignments, and goals.

• Montclair High School
• Buzz Aldrin, Glenfield & Renaissance at Rand Middle Schools
• Bradford, Charles H. Bullock, Edgemont, Hillside, Nishuane, Northeast & Watchung Elementary
• Montclair Kimberley Academy (PreK to grade 12)
• Lacordaire Academy (coed PreK to grade 8, all-girls high school)

Montclair's elementary and middle schools operate as a magnet system: rather than strict neighborhood assignment, families choose among schools built around themes such as global studies, Montessori, science and technology, and gifted and talented. It is one of the district's real strengths, and it also means students arrive at Montclair High School from noticeably different academic experiences. Ninth grade is where those paths converge, and where a tutor can quietly close whichever gaps a particular magnet path left open.

Montclair High School organizes some of its depth into small learning communities, including a STEM program, the Center for Social Justice, and the Civics and Government Institute, a program dating to 1997 in which students run their own congress under a student-written constitution. Layered over that are broad Advanced Placement offerings and the state's usual checkpoints, the NJSLA in grades 3 through 8 and high school and the NJGPA in eleventh grade, so a Montclair transcript can look very different from one student to the next.

The college testing calendar looks like the rest of New Jersey's: PSAT in October of junior year, a first SAT or ACT in winter or spring, prep often beginning the summer before. What differs in Montclair is the range of starting points, so our tutors begin with a diagnostic and your child's actual coursework rather than assumptions. Sessions run in your home anywhere in town or online, scheduled around rehearsals, athletics, and everything else Montclair students take on.