Public Charter Schools

Carroll Creek Montessori Public Charter School is a public charter school operated by a nonprofit organization, Monocacy Montessori Communities, Inc., within the Frederick County Public School System. It offers a Montessori-based learning environment based on the Montessori method and Spanish enrichment for all students.

Frederick Classical Charter School is a public charter school located in Frederick, Maryland that offers a classical education to 376 children in Kindergarten through Grade 8. Its mission is to provide elementary and middle school-aged children in Frederick County with a well-rounded, college-focused instructional program that develops students’ knowledge, reason, and self-expression.

Our school offers a classical approach which arranges education into three stages, or the “trivium”, that roughly correspond with a student’s development. The trivium consists of the grammar, logic and rhetoric stages. The grammar stage is from grades K-4. Students learn not only English grammar but the "grammar", or fundamental knowledge and skills of all subjects. In grades 5-8, students enter the logic stage where they use reasoning to more deeply understand previous learning while acquiring additional knowledge.

In addition to the usual hallmarks of a classical education, our school offers language instruction. Spanish is currently offered for all students. Latin and Greek are taught as a part of the standard language arts curriculum (prefixes, suffixes, roots, Greek joining forms), and as a separate course.

Monocacy Valley Montessori Public Charter School serves grades pre-K through eighth. It functions semi-independently, with its own governance and instructional design. It is the first charter school established in Maryland.

Sabillasville Environmental School was founded in 2022 by a group of parents, teachers, and community members. Their idea was to utilize the area's accessibility to natural resources and farms to provide a unique educational opportunity for students in grades K-8 (K-6 in the first year) across Frederick County. The school uses a classical curriculum with a focus on environmental science and agriculture.