With Montessori and International Baccalaureate programs, it serves students from 18-months-old through the 12th grade.
In 1964, Episcopal priest Albert A. Taliaferro founded the non-sectarian Montessori School of Dallas.
[2] Alcuin’s predecessor school was opened during a second wave of enthusiasm for Montessori education in the U.S., which hit in the early 1960s, spurred by the advocacy of Nancy McCormick Rambusch, an American educator who received her Montessori training in London.
[3] Originally occupying part of a two-story house in the Highland Park neighborhood, the Montessori School of Dallas served 68 students between the ages of two and five.
The concerns were resolved, and in 2015, Alcuin School’s zoning request to allow expansion and renovations was approved by the Dallas City Council.