Looking for day care or preschool in San Leandro
We’re looking for day care and preschool recommendations in San Leandro. We hope to enroll our daughter next June or soon thereafter; she’ll be a couple months shy of 2.5. We’re having the most trouble sifting through the many licensed in-home day cares, but we would also appreciate recommendations for larger day cares and preschools. Thank you!
Sep 24, 2018
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Hi! We had our daughter in Linda's Family Day Care (In-Home Daycare) from 18 mos-2 years old before she started preschool in Oakland: Linda's Family Day Care: https://www.berkeleyparentsnetwork.org/recommend/preschool/lindas-famil…
Also check out: http://woodroewoods.org/
Take a look at St. James Christian Schools, located behind the Rite Aid on MacArthur. Our child was in the school-age aftercare program (until we moved) and really loved it there. They also have an well-established preschool. The teaching staff is stable/long-term, well-qualified, and they sincerely care about the children as individuals. They do an excellent job with social development, I thought. The facilities are nice, and often improved through parent community involvement--it's a very active community. There are lop-eared bunnies and they've recently put in a chicken coop and garden--the school-age program has chinchillas and reptiles. It is part of a church, and therefore nonprofit, but also Christian. The religious aspect was a drawback for us (being Jewish); the school-age program is genuinely non-religious, but the preschoolers do attend chapel. It's certainly not a conservative community, however. Overall, we'd highly recommend it.
Have also heard good things about the preschool at Beth Sholom Synagogue, but never sent the kids there, so can't offer a testimonial.
Kids Konnect in San Lorenzo is fabulous!! I can't recommend Erika more highly. My son went there from ages 1-3 when we moved further away.
[moderator note: did not find a licensed preschool or daycare with this name in San Lorenzo at https://secure.dss.ca.gov/CareFacilitySearch/]
I know of a great place in Oakland, but it's close to San Leandro (off the 580 freeway, Edwards exit; near Keller). It's called Bernice & Joe's playschool. The teachers there are wonderful and the yard is AMAZING! Please tell Anna that Mailisha sent you.