Preschools & Day Care in Montgomery, AL

Montgomery's preschools and day care centers are almost all inside Montgomery County. This page covers 86, with 84 in Montgomery County, one over the line in Macon County, and AIM Academy of Pike Road, which is based in Pike Road. Church ministries are a large part of the local picture, from Cloverdale Preschool Academy, a year-round daycare ministry of Cloverdale Baptist Church since 1986, to Bible Babies Learning Academy, the child care ministry of Kingdom Seekers Worship Center.

More church-run programs fill in the map. Trinity Presbyterian Church on S. Hull Street runs a Christian preschool for children from four months through five years, with classes on set day pairs such as Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday. Heritage Baptist Church runs a child development center with Babies and Toddlers, Toddlers and Twos, and K3 and K4 classes, and prepares all meals on campus. Eastern Hills Baptist Daycare Center takes children from six weeks through K-4. Bible Babies Learning Academy has three centers in East Montgomery, an infant and toddler campus on Twain Curve and a preschool and afterschool campus on Gunn Road.

Public pre-K and Head Start show up in several forms. Dalraida Family YMCA on Pelzer Avenue is a branch of the YMCA of Greater Montgomery with child care from infants through school age, and First Class Pre-K is offered at several Y locations. Our Children's Academy, known as yOCA, organizes Infant, Toddler 1, Toddler 2 and PreK academies, and its Pre-K guidelines mirror Head Start and First Class PreK standards. Little Explorer's Learning Center includes a First Class Pre-K and serves meals through the USDA Food Program. McKee Pre-K Center and Narrow Lane Road Headstart are other early learning sites in the city.

Chain and Montessori options sit alongside them. Halcyon Park KinderCare at 6955 Halcyon Park Drive is NAEYC accredited and accepts child care subsidies, with rooms from infants through Kindergarten and hours of 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM Monday to Friday. Avalon Montessori of Montgomery on Ray Thorington Road teaches children from 6 weeks to 6 years with Montessori methods, in multi-age classrooms that typically span three years. HSW Learning Academy 1 on W Fred D Gray Avenue opens at 5:00 AM and closes at 6:00 PM.

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East of the city, AIM Academy of Pike Road uses the play-based Creative Curriculum. Its programs run from early school for infants and toddlers through preschool, Pre-K for children who are 4 by September 1, kindergarten, after school and summer camp. Little Lambs Child Development Center on Wetumpka Highway takes children from 6 weeks through 12 years and serves Wetumpka and surrounding areas. Milestones Learning Zone is based in Shorter, in Macon County.

Review counts vary widely. AIM Academy of Pike Road holds 4.7 from 87 reviews and Dalraida Family YMCA 4.3 from 78. Trinity Presbyterian Church is at 4.9 from 17 reviews and HSW Learning Academy 1 at 5.0 from 16. Nancy's Child Care and Learning Center LLC holds 4.7 from 27. All About Kidz Learning Development Center is at 3.1 from 23, and Century 2000 Day Care Center at 2.4 from 35.

Millbrook, Prattville, Wetumpka, Eclectic and Tuskegee each have their own page, which helps families on the edges of the county. Wetumpka in particular comes up for Little Lambs Child Development Center, whose Wetumpka Highway location serves that area.

Common questions about preschools and day care centers in Montgomery

Which Montgomery centers run First Class Pre-K?

Dalraida Family YMCA is part of a Y network that offers First Class Pre-K at several locations. Little Explorer's Learning Center has a First Class Pre-K program, and Our Children's Academy writes its Pre-K guidelines to mirror Head Start and First Class PreK standards.

Who takes infants at church-run programs in Montgomery?

Trinity Presbyterian Church takes children from four months old. Cloverdale Preschool Academy, a ministry of Cloverdale Baptist Church, accepts infants as young as 6 weeks, and Eastern Hills Baptist Daycare Center takes children from six weeks through K-4.

Is there a Montessori school in Montgomery?

Avalon Montessori of Montgomery on Ray Thorington Road teaches children from 6 weeks to 6 years with separate Infant, Toddler, Pre-Primary and Primary programs. Its classrooms are multi-age, usually spanning three years.

Who serves families near Pike Road and Wetumpka?

AIM Academy of Pike Road is a neighborhood preschool in Pike Road with infant through kindergarten programs, after school and summer camp. Little Lambs Child Development Center on Wetumpka Highway serves Wetumpka and surrounding areas.

Which Montgomery centers open earliest in the morning?

HSW Learning Academy 1 opens at 5:00 AM and closes at 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday. Halcyon Park KinderCare opens at 6:30 AM and closes at 6:00 PM, and Eastern Hills Baptist Daycare Center opens at 7:00 a.m.

Which towns near Montgomery have their own preschool page?

Millbrook, Prattville, Wetumpka, Eclectic and Tuskegee each have a page of their own. Families on the edges of Montgomery County can check those pages as well as this one.

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