Lumin Education

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Your gift will be matched dollar for dollar until we reach $100,000, thanks to a generous challenge grant from The Eugene McDermott Foundation.

Lumin Education was founded in 1978 and is committed to high quality Montessori education through home visiting and classroom programs for parents and children from pregnancy through age nine.

Montessori education is a child-centered approach focusing on self-directed learning, hands-on exploration, and respect for natural development.

Lumin is a trailblazer; the first to:

• Open a Montessori school in Dallas available to all children regardless of income or ability (1978),
•  Open a Pregnancy to Age 3 home visiting program in Dallas (1993),
•  Open a public Montessori charter school in Texas (1999), 
•  Open a Montessori Early Head Start program in Texas (2009) and,
•  Coordinate a statewide effort resulting in Texas' first Montessori advocacy nonprofit (2023).

Lumin served a total of 1,392 individuals: 727 children and 665 parents in the 2025-26 school year. 74% of our families were economically disadvantaged.

They were 87% Hispanic or Latinx, 3% African American, 7% White, and 3% of other or unknown ethnic backgrounds.

By program:

• Lumin’s home visiting program served 584 children and 665 parents 
• Montessori Classrooms served 92 Toddler (18-36 months) and Primary (3-5 years) children, and 51 Elementary (6-9 years) children.