Meg DeMato grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania. She attended Loyola University of Maryland in Baltimore, where she earned her undergraduate degree in Elementary Education, and minored in French. She then went on to earn her Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from Loyola.  She holds a certificate in School Management and Business Leadership through Harvard Business School and School of Education.

Meg received her AMI Primary diploma in 2007 from Washington Montessori Institute in Maryland with Janet McDonell, and her AMI Elementary diploma in 2025 from the Maria Montessori Institute in London with Alison Awes.  She is currently pursuing the AMI 12-18 Adolescent diploma with Jenny Höglund in London and Sweden.

Before working at Mountain Laurel, she worked at Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School in the International Office. She also taught as a Primary teacher at the Montessori School of Manhattan in NYC.

Meg serves on the Board for the Phoenix Project, the center for domestic violence and sexual assault in Front Royal.

Meg, and husband Mike, moved to Front Royal from New York in 2010, when Mike received a job teaching music at Randolph-Macon Academy. They have five children: Michael, Grace, Maggie, Patrick, and Daniel, all who started at MLMS in the Beginnings program. She enjoys cooking, yoga, and dancing Flamenco.