Meridian Montessori of Plano vs. Creative Minds Montessori: Two Montessori Schools Ten Minutes Apart, Compared

Two Montessori schools, ten minutes apart

Meridian Montessori of Plano sits at 8565 Gratitude Trail, Plano, TX 75024, in the west Plano neighborhoods off Legacy Drive south of State Highway 121. Creative Minds Montessori is at 5115 Warren Parkway, behind Dua Trattoria at Legacy Drive and Warren Parkway, in West Frisco 75034. They are a straight run down Legacy Drive from each other, about ten minutes in normal traffic, which means that for most families reading this, both are realistic and the choice will come down to the schools themselves rather than the commute.

Both are Montessori in the full sense. Meridian's website describes multi-age classrooms, "a 3-hour uninterrupted work cycle" as "the cornerstone of the Montessori primary day," children choosing their own work "from a carefully prepared environment," and a teacher who "serves as a guide, observing each child and offering lessons tailored to their individual readiness." We describe the same practices on our Curriculum page. So this is not a Montessori-versus-something-else comparison. It is a comparison of two schools that share a method and differ in age, track record, price transparency, food, hours, and what their two state records and two sets of reviews can and cannot tell you.

At a glance

Sources: each school's website and Texas HHS record, September 22, 2026; Google ratings and review counts as of the same date. Details change — confirm on your tour.

What kind of school each one is

Meridian Montessori of Plano: a credentialed team, a published schedule, and a record that is eighteen months old

Meridian's website is unusually specific for a preschool, and that is to its credit. The home page describes "100% Montessori-trained lead guides," and the teachers page backs it up person by person: a Primary lead with a Primary (3–6) certification and fourteen years leading a primary room; a second Primary lead with AMS certification and four-plus years; a Toddler lead with an AMS Infant/Toddler credential who has been at the school since 2019 and has worked with every age group; a second Toddler lead with a Primary certification from 2010, AMI workshop training from 2012 and twenty years as a Montessori educator; and an Infant lead with Montessori Environmental Practices and infant-care certifications and thirty years as an infant teacher. Four assistant teachers are profiled as well, one with three years in childcare and a year in a Montessori setting, one there since 2021. The leadership page describes a Director from Colombia with more than twenty years in education and seven as a school director, whose philosophy "centers on compassion, collaboration, and continuous growth," and an Assistant Director with a nutrition-science degree who has sent all three of her sons through the school.

The program is the classic three-community Montessori arc, and the site publishes a daily schedule that most schools keep to themselves. Infants (six weeks to eighteen months) follow "individual sleep, feeding, and play schedules" at a stated ratio of four to one, with sensory work for movement, language and attachment. Toddlers (eighteen to thirty-six months) do practical life, language and motor refinement. Primary (three to six) is multi-age with "beads, the moveable alphabet, the geography puzzles" and the rest of the academic materials. The Primary day, as published: arrival from 7:00, the three-hour work cycle from 7:30 with breakfast available at 8:00 and a continuation from 10:30, outdoor time at 11:30 for "climbing, gardening, nature study, group games," a communal noon meal "where children set tables, serve food" and practice manners, rest from 1:00 with older children reading and drawing, enrichment at 2:00 ("art, music, Spanish, science"), a second work period at 3:00, singing and movement at 3:30, and extended day from 4:00 to 6:00. Half-day, full-day and extended-day schedules are priced separately.

Around the classroom the site describes WatchMeGrow live classroom cameras with HD streaming and 256-bit encryption, a Meridian Parent Portal with daily reports, photo sharing, direct messaging, attendance records and a family directory, a nut-free kitchen, and a nutrition page that emphasizes "fresh, whole ingredients — minimal processed foods and seasonal produce," with lunch from a third-party vendor billed separately and two snacks a day. Tours run forty-five to sixty minutes and are free. The availability page, updated September 20, 2026, shows the infant room and two of three toddler rooms full with waitlists, one toddler room with three openings, one primary room full and the other with five openings, which tells you the school is popular and that infant spots should be sought early.

Two more things worth knowing. The state record under this operation number begins with a Full Permit on April 24, 2025, and the site says nothing about what came before; the Google listing at this address carries reviews going back fifteen years, so some of what you will read online predates the current license, and we treat it that way below. And the record since then is very clean: three inspections, 2,541 standards evaluated, one deficiency, corrected within ten days.

Creative Minds Montessori: one school, one philosophy, ten-plus years of the same faces

Creative Minds is a single independent school in the Legacy and Warren corridor that serves children from six weeks through kindergarten entry and then hands them on to Frisco ISD or a private elementary. Everything about it is built around the Montessori method. Walk in mid-morning and the first thing you notice is the quiet hum of concentration: one child building the pink tower, another tracing sandpaper letters, a third carrying a tray of golden beads to a mat. The guide is not at the front of the room; she is kneeling next to one child, presenting one lesson, and the rest of the room is working on things they chose. Rooms are mixed-age on purpose, so a three-year-old watches a five-year-old read and a five-year-old learns patience by helping a three-year-old pour.

Layered over that structure is what the school calls the Waldorf touch: a weekly music class, process art with natural materials, rhythm and storytelling, and a deliberate reverence for beauty and nature in the rooms. Montessori builds the disciplined, capable mind; the artistic thread keeps the imagination glowing. Our Curriculum page lays out the five Montessori areas and what each looks like at each age.

The people are the second thing. Both infant teachers have been with the school since it opened its doors more than ten years ago, which in an industry where caregivers often change every few months means the same two warm faces greet families at drop-off year after year. Ratios meet or exceed Texas Health and Human Services licensing for every age, with the youngest rooms kept smallest, and because the school is small, the Director personally approves every move from one room to the next.

The third thing is a set of daily-life choices that are easy to verify. Food is treated as curriculum: organic milk and organic vegetables, no added raw sugar, minimal salt and fat, a vegetarian option every day, fresh fruit and milk with every lunch, and a nut-free building. Children under two have no screen time at all, and older children never more than one supplemental, education-aligned hour, never at meals or rest. Every classroom has a camera, and parents can log in and watch any time during the day. Our Our School page covers the rest.

Curriculum and daily life, compared

Because both schools are Montessori for the same age range, the table below has fewer sharp contrasts than most in this series. The differences are in the edges: what is written down, what is included in the price, how the food is sourced, what the two sites say about screens and discipline, and how long each team has been together.

A few honest notes. Meridian publishes more than we do: a minute-by-minute schedule, a named ratio for infants, a credential for every lead guide, and a price for every schedule. That transparency is worth something on its own, and it makes Meridian easy to hold to its word on a tour. A half-day option for a three-year-old, which we do not offer, matters to some families. On our side, the differences are specific rather than broad: our food is included and organic rather than optional and "fresh, whole"; we have a written screen policy and a written discipline policy with numbers in them; and we have a team that has been in the same rooms for a decade, which no eighteen-month-old license can yet show, however good its people are. If continuity of adults is your first question, ask Meridian how long each lead has been in the room your child would join; the website dates only one of them.

Food, hours, and the shape of a day

Hours. Meridian's extended day runs 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM on its tuition and schedule pages, half an hour later than Creative Minds' 7:00 to 5:30. One wrinkle: the school's Texas HHS record lists permitted hours of 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM, later than the website's closing time. The permit is the legal ceiling, the website is the practical one; ask which pick-up time actually applies and what the late fee is. Creative Minds' full-day programs cap at ten hours of care, and the school asks for a 9:00 arrival so children get the uninterrupted work period. Meridian's published schedule starts its work cycle at 7:30, so ask there, too, what happens to a child who arrives at 9:15.

Food. This is a real point of difference, and it is about money as much as philosophy. Meridian's tuition does not include lunch: the nutrition page says "meals are provided daily through our third-party meal vendor" and "are billed separately from tuition," and the tuition page prices the optional lunch program at $80 a month. The kitchen is "completely nut-free," gluten-, dairy- and egg-free and vegetarian needs are accommodated, two snacks a day are self-serve fruit and "healthy bites," a sample Monday menu shows oatmeal, apples with seed butter, grilled chicken with rice and broccoli, and hummus with crackers, and menus rotate weekly. There is no organic claim. Creative Minds includes breakfast, lunch and two snacks in tuition; lunch is catered by KidzCaters on a four-week rotation, with organic milk and organic vegetables, no added raw sugar, minimal salt and fat, a vegetarian option every day, fresh fruit and milk with every lunch, and a nut-free building. Both schools use an outside caterer, so neither has a chef; the differences are sourcing and whether it is in the price. Our menu is on our Nutrition page; ask Meridian for its vendor's name and a full week of menus.

Flexibility. Meridian offers half-day, full-day and extended-day schedules for toddlers and primary (infants full or extended only), and the state record lists part-time care. Creative Minds is a full-day preschool. We do offer ways to protect a spot during extended breaks (half tuition for infants, a hold-spot fee for older children) and two $50-per-year vacation credits, but if you want a four-hour Montessori morning for a three-year-old, Meridian is the one to ask. Neither school offers transportation.

Safety, security, and seeing your child's day

Both schools stream their classrooms, which is still unusual enough in this area to be worth saying twice. The rest of what each site publishes is below; where a site is silent we say so.

Two reviews of Meridian, discussed below, say the school did not allow camera access and did not let parents see the classroom equipment. Both are undated or years old, and the website today advertises live cameras, so the question for the tour is simply: which rooms, which hours, on whose phone, and for how much.

What the state's five-year records show, side by side

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission publishes every licensed center's five-year compliance history in its public Child Care Search. We read both schools' pages on September 22, 2026 and put them in one table. The two windows are not the same length, and that matters: Meridian's record under this operation number starts in April 2025, so it covers seventeen months and three inspections, while ours covers five years and fourteen. Read ours as critically as theirs; the links go to the primary source.

Meridian's one deficiency, in full: at the initial inspection on April 11, 2025, which evaluated 1,276 standards, the inspector found that "10 children were missing special care needs information in their admission paperwork," a record-keeping item under standard 746.605(12) rated medium-high. The record says "compliance was met via email," verified April 21, 2025. The two inspections since, in September 2025 and April 2026, evaluated 606 and 659 standards and found nothing. There have been no complaint investigations, no self-reported incidents, no injuries, no penalties and no enforcement actions under this operation number.

That matters for one review in particular. A Google reviewer, undated in the copy we collected, wrote that Meridian has "extensive violations by the state of Texas," "more violations than any other school in the area," and that "a lot of the violations are rated as 'high'." The state record for Meridian Montessori of Plano, Operation No. 1813676, does not bear that out: it shows one deficiency, rated medium-high, across 2,541 standards, and none rated high. If the reviewer was describing an earlier license at this address, that record is not on this page and we have not seen it; if they were describing this one, the claim is simply not what the record shows. Read the state page yourself; it takes two minutes.

What Meridian's record cannot yet tell you is the other side of the same coin. Seventeen months is a short window, and a clean short window is good news rather than proof. The one number in it that deserves a question is staff departures: ten employees left in 2025, the school's first calendar year on the record, at a school licensed for 226 children. That is not an alarming figure for a new operation finding its team, and it is lower than our own 2020 through 2023 numbers, but it is double our 2025 count, and the website dates the tenure of only one lead guide. Ask who has been in each room for how long.

Our own record is the one we want you to read hardest. Twenty-six deficiencies across 3,942 standards is more than Meridian's, and most of them are paperwork we should have had in order and many of which we reported ourselves. Each finding was verified corrected by the state. The three self-reported incidents on our record are incidents we reported to the state ourselves, because we would rather have a mark on the page than a secret in the building. Zero injuries in five years and 5 and 7 staff departures in the last two years are the numbers we are proudest of. The details are on our state page linked above, and we would rather you read them there than take our summary.

Cost and fees: what each school publishes

Here Meridian does something most schools in this area, including us, do not: it prints its tuition. The 2026–27 tuition page lists a monthly rate for every program and schedule, and the fees beside them, so a parent can build an all-in number before the tour. That is worth real credit.

Source: meridianplano.com/tuition, 2026–27 rates, read September 22, 2026. Additional published fees: $250 one-time non-refundable registration; a non-refundable tuition deposit of one month of the program rate, due at enrollment; optional lunch program $80 a month; summer activities $100 per child per month in summer. Discounts: 10% off the lower tuition for siblings; 5% off for paying the school year in advance. Rates change; confirm on your tour.

Meridian Montessori of Plano, then, is roughly $1,330 a month for a primary child on the extended day with lunch, or $1,580 for an infant, before the registration fee and the one-month deposit, and before any summer activity fee. The tuition page says the rate buys "the full Montessori program for your chosen schedule, five days a week" with Montessori-trained guides, published ratios and materials, and that meals are optional and billed separately. Ask what the deposit is applied to, whether it is returned at the end or forfeited on a mid-year withdrawal, and what "summer activities" covers.

Creative Minds Montessori bills monthly by age. Published fees: a one-time $150 registration fee per child, a $150 supply fee twice a year (March and September), and a $25-per-child monthly camera fee. Published credits: a 10% sibling discount on the older sibling's tuition, $150 off tuition for each referred family who stays 90 days, and a current new-family welcome of $100 off tuition for the first ten months. Breakfast, lunch, two snacks, the music class and all materials are included. Monthly rates by age come from the Director, and we will give you a written all-in number on the tour. Details are on our Admissions page.

Two practical tips. First, ask both schools for a written, all-in annual number for your child's age, including every fee, the deposit and the meals, so that "tuition plus $80 lunch plus $250 plus a month's deposit" and "tuition plus $150 twice a year plus $25 a month" can be compared like for like. Second, ask what happens to your spot and your money during a two-week vacation, a maternity leave, or a job change; the answers differ more between schools than the headline rate does. Our guide to what childcare really costs covers FSAs and the child-care tax credit, which apply at both schools.

What parents say

Meridian Montessori of Plano

Start with the number: Meridian holds a 4.8-star rating across 106 Google reviews as of September 22, 2026, the higher score in this comparison, and it should frame everything below. (The school's own reviews page quotes a larger count and a 5.0 on Niche across 31 reviews; the figure we use is the one we read on the Google listing today.) The praise the school gathers on its reviews page is consistent: teachers who are "warm, patient, and truly dedicated," low teacher turnover, children who grew in confidence and independence, clean rooms, good outdoor space, and individual attention. That matches the credentialed team on the teachers page and the clean state record.

The critical reviews need careful dating, because this is a listing with a long memory and a short license. Of the reviews we collected on September 22, 2026, five are critical, and only two carry a date in the copy we have: one is fifteen years old, one is five years old, and the other three are undated. The school's state record under its current operation number begins in April 2025. So at least two of the five, and possibly all of them, describe the school as it was before the current permit, and we cannot tell from the record whether the same people ran it then. With that said, here is what they say:

• Staffing and consistency in the toddler room (fifteen years ago). A parent wrote that the certified toddler teacher who impressed them at an open house had left by the time their son started, that the replacements were "not as experienced," that the ratio "seemed much higher, even though it meets the law requirements," that lunches and naps ran thirty minutes ahead of the published schedule, and that phone calls were not returned, orientation was delayed, and a parent-teacher conference felt like a conversation "between director and amongst teacher" rather than with the parent.
• Injuries and paperwork (five years ago). A parent wrote that their daughter "fell while playing and got hurt badly" twice in her second week, that the school "forced to sign the paper as if nothing happened," that parents were not allowed to talk with teachers or see the equipment, and that "their equipments are not safe." We cannot verify this, and the current record shows no injury and no complaint investigation; the school's website today describes direct teacher messaging and live cameras, which is the opposite of what this reviewer describes, so the practices, at least, have changed or the reviewer describes a different regime.
• "Extensive violations" (undated). Addressed in the state-record section above: the claim is not what the record for this operation shows.
• Billing (undated). One reviewer wrote that "the management would just overcharge." No details are given; the tuition page today is unusually specific, which is the best answer to a vague billing complaint.
• A mixed pros-and-cons review (undated). The most useful of the five, because it is balanced: pros listed as a convenient location, "affordable fees," and "courteous staff and teachers are patient with kids"; cons listed as "no camera access," an understaffed front desk, "some teachers are not proficient in English language," and a building that is "a little old and dirty." Again, the website today advertises live cameras, so at least one of those cons is dated or has been fixed.

No public replies from the school appeared in the copies we collected. Individual reviews are unverified, and we cannot verify these. What gives them limited weight is their age and their spread: five complaints across fifteen years on five different subjects is not a pattern, and two of the specific complaints (no cameras, no teacher contact) are contradicted by what the school publishes today. What cuts the other way is that the current operation is only seventeen months old on the state record, so the clean record is short, and ten departures in 2025 is the one number that rhymes with the oldest review's complaint about teachers leaving. The fair summary: a well-regarded, credentialed Montessori school with a clean but brief public record, at an address whose online reviews reach back further than its license, where the questions to ask are who has been in each room for how long and what changed in April 2025.

Creative Minds Montessori

Creative Minds Montessori holds a 4.7-star rating across 44 Google reviews. It is a smaller count, and the score is what we are proud of, along with the state's record of 5 and 7 staff departures in the last two years, because the reviews are mostly about people who are still here. The Google reviews quoted on our Testimonials page cluster around the infant teachers who have been here since the school opened, the calm of the classrooms, the food, the cameras, and children who come home and set the table without being asked. We are not going to pretend we have no critical reviews, and we are not going to pretend our state record is blank; read all 44 on Google, read our state page, and ask us about any of it on the tour. We would rather answer than spin.

One thing we say to every family who tours us after touring another Montessori school: the word on the sign is the beginning of the comparison, not the end of it. Two rooms with the same movable alphabet can feel completely different depending on who is in them and how long they have been there. Watch the adults.

Which school fits which family

And a third possibility that is more common than either school likes to admit: some children are simply happier in one room than another, and you will know within ten minutes of watching them in it. Bring your child to both tours if you possibly can. Creative Minds offers a Discovery Day before enrollment for exactly this reason; ask Meridian whether your child can spend part of a morning in the room they would join.

Ten questions to ask on both tours

These are the questions that separate a good tour from a brochure read aloud. Ask every one of them at both schools, in the same words, and compare the answers side by side.

1. "What is the exact ratio and group size in the room my child would start in, today?" Not the licensing maximum, the actual number this month. Meridian publishes 4:1 for infants; check it against the room.
2. "How long have the teachers in that room been here, and who left last year?" Tenure is the single best predictor of how your child's day will feel. Meridian's state record shows ten departures in 2025; ours shows five. Make both schools tell it room by room.
3. "What happened in April 2025?" Ask Meridian directly what changed when the current permit was issued, and whether the leadership and teachers are the same people who were there before.
4. "What happens when a child says, 'I can't do it'?" The answer reveals the whole philosophy. We explain why in our guide to choosing a whole-child program.
5. "Can I see my child's room during the day, and how?" Both schools say cameras; get the rooms, the hours, the device and the cost.
6. "What did the children eat yesterday, who made it, and is it in the price?" Then ask to see the menu for next week and the allergy policy.
7. "How much screen time will my child have, and what is it for?" Get a number, not an adjective.
8. "What is my all-in annual cost for this age, including every fee, the deposit and meals, and what happens to the deposit if we leave in March?"
9. "When a child is hurt at school, what do you tell me, when, and what do you write down?" Ask to see the incident form. Compare the answer with each school's state page.
10. "May I come back on a normal morning?" The answer, and the tone of the answer, tells you nearly everything.

For the longer version of this checklist, including the unannounced-visit test and the difference between settling-in tears and real red flags, see How to Choose a Daycare You Actually Trust.

The bottom line

Meridian Montessori of Plano is a credentialed, transparent, popular Montessori school with a clean but short public record: one paperwork deficiency in seventeen months, no complaints, no injuries, five lead guides with named credentials, a published schedule, published prices, live cameras, and a 4.8-star Google rating across 106 reviews. Its rooms are mostly full. Its critical reviews are old, few, and mostly about a school that, on the evidence of the state's dates and the school's own website, may not be the one that exists today; the one that claims "extensive violations" is not supported by the record. The things to ask about are who has been in each room for how long, what changed in April 2025, and what the deposit and the lunch add to the printed rate.

Creative Minds Montessori is the same age range with a longer story: one philosophy carried out from six weeks to kindergarten by adults who have been here for years, organic food included in the price, a written screen policy and a written discipline policy, cameras you can watch all day, and a five-year state record with 26 deficiencies that we have laid out in full rather than rounded off. It closes half an hour earlier, it offers no half-day, and it does not print its tuition.

Those are different products, and a family can be right to choose either. The wrong choice is the one made from a website, including this one. Tour both. Bring the questions above. Watch the children more than the adults, and then watch the adults. And if you would like to start with us, book a 40-minute weekday tour at Creative Minds, call (972) 338-4304, or email director@creativemindsfrisco.com. Meridian Montessori of Plano schedules free tours through its website or at (214) 856-6337.

Quick answers

How far apart are the two schools?

About ten minutes. Meridian Montessori of Plano is at 8565 Gratitude Trail in west Plano (75024), off Legacy Drive south of Highway 121; Creative Minds is at 5115 Warren Parkway in West Frisco (75034), behind Dua Trattoria at Legacy and Warren. A straight run down Legacy Drive connects them.

Are both schools really Montessori?

Yes. Meridian describes multi-age classrooms, a three-hour uninterrupted work cycle, Montessori materials, and five lead guides who each hold a named Montessori credential; Creative Minds has certified Montessori guides, mixed-age rooms and the classic materials across the five areas, with a Waldorf-inspired arts and music thread.

Which has longer hours, and does either serve older children?

Meridian's extended day runs 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM on its website (its state record permits 7:00 to 6:30); Creative Minds runs 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Both serve six weeks to six years and neither continues past kindergarten. Meridian also offers half-day and full-day schedules; Creative Minds is full-day only.

Is Meridian Montessori of Plano a licensed center?

Yes. Texas HHS lists Meridian Montessori of Plano as a Licensed Center – Child Care Program with a Full Permit issued April 24, 2025, Operation No. 1813676, Collin County, licensed capacity 226, with school-age care, meals and snacks, and part-time care.

What do the Texas licensing records show for each school?

Meridian, since its April 2025 permit: 3 inspections, 1 deficiency across 2,541 standards (a medium-high record-keeping item at the initial inspection, corrected in ten days), no high-risk findings, no complaint investigations, no injuries, no penalties, and 10 staff departures in 2025. Creative Minds shows 26 deficiencies across 3,942 standards, including three supervision findings (2022, 2023 and a self-reported one in June 2026), all verified corrected, plus 3 self-reported incidents, zero injuries in the same years.

Is it true Meridian has "extensive violations"?

Not on the state record for this operation. A Google review makes that claim; the Texas HHS record for Meridian Montessori of Plano, Operation No. 1813676, shows one deficiency, rated medium-high, across 2,541 standards evaluated in three inspections since April 2025, and none rated high. Any earlier license at the address is not on that page and we have not seen it.

Does either publish tuition?

Meridian does: 2026–27 monthly rates from $950 (primary half day) to $1,500 (infant extended day), plus a $250 registration fee, a one-month deposit, an optional $80-a-month lunch program, and 10% sibling and 5% prepay discounts. Creative Minds publishes its fees ($150 registration, $150 supply fee twice a year, $25 monthly camera fee) and credits (10% sibling discount, $150 referral, $100-a-month welcome credit for ten months); monthly rates come from the Director.

What do the critical Google reviews of Meridian say?

Of 106 reviews as of September 22, 2026, we collected five critical ones, two of them dated fifteen and five years ago and three undated, so most or all predate the school's April 2025 permit. They cover a toddler teacher who left and inexperienced replacements, two playground falls and an incident form the parent felt pressured to sign, a claim of "extensive violations" not supported by the state record, an unexplained overcharging complaint, and a balanced review praising courteous staff and affordable fees while criticizing no camera access, a thin front desk and an aging building. The school's website today advertises live cameras and direct teacher messaging. No public replies appeared in the copies we collected.

Do both have parent cameras?

Both say so. Creative Minds offers all-day secure classroom viewing for $25 per child per month, with grandparent logins available. Meridian's home page describes WatchMeGrow live classroom cameras with HD streaming and encryption; the rooms, hours and any fee are not published. Ask on the tour.

Keep reading

• How to Choose a Daycare You Actually Trust — the full checklist, the unannounced-visit test, and real red flags.
• Alpha Montessori Frisco vs. Creative Minds Montessori, Acepire Montessori vs. Creative Minds Montessori, Primrose School of Lakehill vs. Creative Minds Montessori and Kids 'R' Kids Legacy West vs. Creative Minds Montessori — our other comparisons, same method.
• What Should Parents Look For? Choosing a Whole-Child Program — eight questions that reveal a program's beliefs.
• Early Childhood Education Methodologies — Montessori, Reggio, Waldorf, and seventeen other approaches compared.
• How Much Does Childcare Cost — FSAs, tax credits, and why continuity beats the cheapest slot.
• Our Curriculum and Our Nutrition Program — see the claims in this article for yourself.

About this comparison: written by the teachers of Creative Minds Montessori, Frisco, TX, in September 2026. Facts about Meridian Montessori of Plano come from its public website (home, programs, Montessori, about, leadership, teachers, daily-schedule, nutrition, app, tuition, availability, reviews and schedule-a-tour pages, read September 22, 2026), from its Texas HHS Child Care Search record (permit, capacity, programs, hours, administrator, and the full inspection and compliance history since its April 2025 permit, read the same day), and from public Google reviews as of the same date; review counts, ratings, rates and availability change. Facts about Creative Minds come from our own website and our Texas HHS record. Quotations from reviews and from the state record are reproduced as posted; individual reviews are the opinions of their authors and are unverified, and the state's findings are the state's, not ours. WatchMeGrow is a trademark of its owner; we use it only to identify the service. If you are the owner or director of Meridian Montessori of Plano and find an error, or want to add context to anything here, including the history of the school before its current permit, email director@creativemindsfrisco.com and we will correct or add it promptly and note the change. Nothing here is a substitute for your own tour of both schools. Our legal disclaimer applies.