Summit Montessori School, with 100 students through sixth grade, is planning a major expansion of its Pleasant Street site in Framingham.
The school, which uses a less formal teaching style that’s common to Montessori schools, is seeking Framingham Planning Board approval for a new schoolhouse and gymnasium that would be connected to its existing building in a roughly 8,800-square-foot building that’s more than a century old.
The new spaces would include a renovation of a 2,000-square-foot ranch house next door to the school for new classroom space in a first phase. A 6,700-square-foot gymnasium and multipurpose space would be added in a second phase that would connect the two classroom buildings.
The school owns the parcel of land between and behind both buildings, for a total of roughly 3 acres.
Summit Montessori School began in 1996 with 48 students and has expanded since, and says it is now bumping up against its capacity of 105 students.
The expansion, estimated to cost $2.5 million, will go before the Planning Board for approval on Sept. 12.
