Although each CMSAA family is unique, there are some common threads in the families that choose CMSAA.

Most of our families include parents with college or post-graduate degrees. Some families are very active in their church, while others appreciate the Christian education we offer but do not actively practice a faith at home.

What unites our families is that they care that their children receive a quality education. These families are willing to make a commitment to ensure that their children receive the education they deserve. That commitment often draws parents more deeply into the school community and they bring with them a dedication that may take the form of financial gifts, gifts of times and, for some families, the commitment of a daily drive.

Although most of our families are from the Ann Arbor area, we currently have families that come from as far as Monroe, Jackson, Chelsea, and Ypsilanti.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians. They must protect and care for him in the deepest sense, as a sacred mission that goes far beyond the interests and ideas of external life… For such a mission parents must purify the love nature has implanted in their hearts, and they must understand that such love is the conscious part of a deeper guidance which must not be contaminated by egotism or apathy. It is for parents to visualise and take up the social question facing us at the present day, the struggle to establish the rights of the child in the world. – Maria Montessori