Colin Macdonald Community School logo featuring a rocket ship, oak leaf, artist's pallet, and a fox, housed within a compass

Colin Macdonald Community School

C.M.C.S. is an independent school in Hamilton, Ontario, educating learners from preschool through to grade eight. 

We offer an enriched Montessori education featuring mixed-age, inclusive learning environments, where educators develop multi-year relationships with their learners, fostering an individualized and differentiated curriculum that meets each learner where they are holistically and supports them in where they are going. Centring child-led inquiry, interests, and experiential learning empowers our learners to interact with, connect to, and contribute to the world around them. 

Discover our Three Learning Communities

Colin Macdonald Community School is comprised of three developmentally aligned mixed-age learning communities. All three learning communities come together each day during a shared hour of outdoor play! 

for Learners 3 - 6 years of age

(Pre-K/JK/SK)

For Learners in Grades 1 - 5

For Learners in Grades 6 - 8

 “We do not prepare the child for school but for life.” 

-  Maria Montessori