Chiang Mai · Thailand

Chiang Mai Montessori
International School

A Montessori school, part of the Esara community in Hang Dong — where children are free to grow at their own pace, inside an environment built for them.

The method Esara International School

How Montessori works here

Montessori education is not a subject we add — it is how the whole day is built. Four ideas carry it:

The prepared environment

Ordered, real, child-sized materials within reach. The room itself is the first teacher.

Follow the child

Lessons begin where the child actually is — not where a curriculum assumes they should be.

Mixed-age groups

Children aged 3 to 16 learn in multi-age communities: the older deepen by teaching, the younger by watching.

Hands before words

Concrete work first — manipulation, movement, independence — and the abstract follows naturally.

Life at school

Ordinary days, real materials: the photographs below are from the 2026 school shoot.

A teacher and two children hold a giant lotus leaf outdoors

A small child carries a wooden chair across the classroom

A teacher presents a lesson with materials to a young child at a table

A child sits on the floor building a tower with wooden blocks

A child writes in a notebook seated among large leaves outdoors

A child tends potted plants on a low shelf by the window

A young child carries a tray of sensorial materials

Children sit around a teacher beside a circle of culture materials on the floor

Three children pull on a rope together during an outdoor game

A child in a straw hat works the soil in the school garden

A child builds the classic Montessori pink tower on the classroom floor

One community, several doors

The school shares its grounds and its approach with the wider Esara community at Esara Park, Nong Kwai, Hang Dong — including Adventures4Kids, the holiday camps that run on the same Montessori approach for ages 3 to 16.

Esara Park · 229/1-2 Ban Roychan, Nong Kwai, Hang Dong, Chiang Mai 50230 · see on the map