Crossing Borders is a good school. They balance learning, play, outdoor play, and exercise really…read morewell. I always felt safe bringing my kid to school, and we had no issues during the year that we were there. The main reason why the school did not work for us was because the Mandarin class size got really large. It was 10 kids when we started, and then maybe 5 months later it was at 18 kids. I felt this number was too high for one teacher (who did not have a full time assistant) to handle. Especially because there are 3 years old in this class too. Ms. Jessica is an amazing teacher whom my son loved dearly. I believe that she did her best to juggle that many kids. She is loving and teaches the kids a lot more than just Mandarin. She is always friendly, and seemed to genuinely care about my son. Even though Crossing Borders ended up not being for us, I do recommend them to any parent who's asking. They are well organized, have a fun playground, and they kids do learn whatever language you sign them up for . My son speaks to me regularly in Mandarin at home now, and I couldn't be more thrilled. Thank you Crossing Borders for a wonderful experience!

My daughters have been attending this great school for the last year. I can't say enough about…read moretheir professionalism and quality of education. Expect a very diverse student body where your children can have a wonderful introduction to education. If you have doubts my best recommendation is to pay them a visit. Thank you CB!

I cannot say enough about how great this place is! My son thrived and we enjoyed the whole journey…read moretogether as a family with his teachers. They are professional and compationate. Ms.Laura goes to the moon and back to make things special. If you live next to this daycare, enroll your kids asap, they will be in very good hands

We join CHMS in August 2020 when my son was 7 months old and now have 2 kids that go there. We have…read morefound so much to be thankful for with the team here, the kids are well cared for and loved, my son learns so much and demonstrates it at home and while hes playing with others regularly. The teachers and staff go out of their way to ensure the kids have a great time and to keep the parents informed. We have great peace of mind knowing the care and educational foundation our kids are receiving here and can't wait to see how they grow and develop further over the years.

We love Primrose at Greenway Plaza. Amazing staff that provide nurturing environment. It was…read moreamazing to see our child learn and thrive in school. The school has the standard staff to children ratio. More often than not, there seems to be fewer kids (I think) than the maximum. So, each teacher looks after fewer kids, which is an added bonus when that happens. Bright and sunny facility in a secure building. Hassle free pick-up and drop-off with ample parking. The office complex has a large private court yard, which has provided hour of entertainment for our child after school. Compared with other daycare around the neighborhood, this school has longer hours (6:30AM -6:30PM), and fewer days off. This is a huge plus for people who work at Texas Medical Center. We knew that this particular location does not take older kids (3 years and up). If we had to do it again, we will still choose Primrose at Greenway Plaza over others.

Stephanie Conner the director is phenomenal at running this facility. I highly recommend this…read moredaycare for those under 3 years!! The teachers are awesome miss flowers was my sons favorite teacher of all time! She took the time with him and he thoroughly enjoyed going to school here.

As we embark on kindergarten, I'm taking this time to reflect on our wonderful experience with The…read moreLearning Experience. We have had such a positive journey here--both of my children have truly thrived and have loved being part of such a warm, caring environment. The teachers go above and beyond every single day, and it's clear how much they genuinely care about the kids. My children have been incredibly well prepared for kindergarten--not only academically, but socially and emotionally as well. The curriculum strikes a great balance, and the staff does such an amazing job meeting each child where they are. For example, my son has a strong interest and talent in math, and his teachers gave him work that matched his skill level, which kept him both challenged and engaged. Every teacher we've had the pleasure of working with has been wonderful, supportive, and dedicated. We are so grateful for the foundation The Learning Experience has given both of our children and highly recommend this school to any family looking for a nurturing, fun, and supportive environment.

My two kids have graduated from TLE last year, such a beautiful experience and as of this year I…read morehave enrolled my third child and he everyday he comes home happy and tells me about his friends and he has homework to do. Tysm for this wonderful experience and the Quality work

Came here for my little cousin's Christmas program...was SUPER excited to watch this kid on the…read morestage for the first time...and check out this Montessori school! Southampton Montessori School is a private pre-school and kindergarten for children ages 3-6 years old. Located in the rice village area this school consists of classy little "cottage" classrooms interconnected with a beautiful and serene walkway. As you walk between the cottages you almost don't feel like you're in Houston anymore. Beautifully landscaped and well designed this school feels safe as every detail gushes class. A boutique learning oasis in the middle of rice village...classy and extremely well-run.

We couldn't be happier with our experience at Poe Cooperative Nursery School. Like many parents, I…read morewas nervous about sending my child into a new environment. Handing them off to someone else felt overwhelming, but Poe made that transition feel less like a leap and more like joining a big, supportive family. Being welcomed into the classroom and getting to be an active participant in my child's learning has been such a gift. Parent helper days are a highlight of our month. It's such a joy to get to know all of the children and see how my child interacts with their friends and teachers in a new setting. The teachers are warm, nurturing, and deeply engaged. This was my son's first time outside of our home and they were excellent at gently guiding him through a new environment. They somehow manage to balance calm structure with joyful chaos, and they treat each child like a whole person. The play-based curriculum encourages creativity, exploration, and a lot of wonderfully messy learning, which we absolutely love. We also love the emphasis on outdoor time. The kids are outside climbing, running, digging, and trying to smuggle home their new pet bugs. It has been amazing for their energy, imagination, and general happiness, although our car has become a bit of a mobile nature preserve. The classroom garden has given my son a love of a fresh picked green bean, although I am not sure he left any to be harvested! The sense of community at Poe is something truly special. Families genuinely get to know each other, and there is a shared feeling of we are in this together. We have loved all of the opportunities for us to engage either through family gatherings at the school, or the welcoming invitations to weekend meet ups and park play dates. We are incredibly grateful to be part of such a thoughtful, fun, and caring environment.

We knew we wanted to find a co-op preschool for our daughter but never imagined we'd find such an…read moreamazing school so close to home. Poe Co is an absolute GEM!!! The teachers are incredible, dedicated imaginative educators who pride themselves on making learning fun for their students and tailoring the curriculum to their students specific learning and developmental needs. The small class size really allows for the time and attention needed to help the kids be able to learn together while allowing for customized teaching moments to make sure they have the skills and knowledge they'll need to step into elementary school. My daughter has grown socially and learned so much this year, I can't say enough good things about this preschool. They bake from scratch, garden, splash in the rain, ride trikes, play in the mud kitchen, build crazy block structures and play in the pretend zone daily. This school is a dream.

Great place. Moved here from another nearby daycare a few years ago and it has been like night and…read moreday. The outside area in the back is amazing for the kids to play.

Unfortunately, CLA isn't the great daycare that used to be.The services have diminished. First, the…read morecontinued teacher's turnover is concerning for the kids' adaptation and safety; in less than 6 months about 5 teachers have quit. A few times the daycare didn't even have enough personnel in the afternoons, and to compensate they bring substitute teachers that you don't know nor they inform parents. Second, the lack of communication from teachers to parents is very disappointing. When you ask about your kid's daily routine or about scratches that you find on your kid, there's no consistency with the answers you get from the staff. Third, the building itself is old and upgrades are lacking. In a matter of 6 months, they had issues with plumbing, electricity, and kitchen appliances, and at the last minute they ask you to pick up your kids, disrupting your time at work. Further, the health/cleaning precautions is concerning (when it comes to report kids' health viruses, you don't really see any cleaning precautions taken except for the cleaning services that they have on Wednesdays), the toys look dirty, rooms smell bad, and in the patio they have toys that are left outside all weekend without being cleaned. I have even seen cat's feces in the patio close to the toys. Finally, the safety of the place is truly concerning. The front door is old and sometimes it stays open without parents realizing. There is not always someone in the front door which would make it very easy to access the place. A few months ago, one of the parents found a kid (one of the 2's) outside the daycare walking by himself close to the street, and while the parent was trying to make sure the kid was safe and wasn't going far (about 5 minutes or so) finally one of the teachers noticed the kid was outside and went looking for him/her. After the incident, no communication with the parent's community was sent, which made us believe that they either didn't care, didn't consider that incident to be significant, or they just simply wanted to cover it. No safety precautions have been taken since. The front door is still in the same condition, and no preventative measures were implemented. As parents we always try to find the best place of our children, the best conditions and the best teachers. And it's really sad to give this review as our kids attended the center for few years and there are good teachers that truly deserve better work conditions.

I just wanted to share that my daughter, thanks to the excellent instruction and personalized…read moreattention that she received at SNS, had absolutely no problem acing HISD's G&T testing this year in Kindergarten. She consistently gets top grades in her class, and we thank SNS for preparing her so well, academically and socially, in their pre-K programs. SNS transformed my shy little girl - who had spent the first years of her life at home during the pandemic - into a confident, smart little social butterfly. My son, attending SNS for summer camps, has also benefitted from SNS academically and socially. Being with slightly older classmates over the summers pushed him ahead of the curve, and he was popular among the younger kid crowd, as the older brother to my daughter. P.S. I believe first responders and BCM employees receive a discount on registration, and the school offers a sibling discount on tuition, as well. Cannot recommend this school enough!

This review is a little long because I have a lot to say about this school. TL;DR -- lots of…read moreschools have great academics but not so great social environments. Saint Nicholas has top-ranking academics, sure, but, what my children learned about themselves and their peers, and how deeply their teachers cared about and fostered that, is what really made this school the very place for my 5 preschool through elementary children. To put this review in perspective: when I was a child, my family moved to Houston and surveyed top local private elementary schools to enroll me in. I attended one, then another top local private school. Both were academically quite excellent, completely in keeping with their reputations. Unfortunately they were also very cliquish, and because I was the new kid, it took quite a lot of time and effort to fit in, despite having experienced a very loving, inclusive, and thoroughly enjoyable social life at my previous schools. Looking back now, I can understand that the social environment was simply unhealthy at both these Houston private schools. In fact, though I loved learning, my ability to learn and thrive academically was severely compromised by the social situations at these schools. So here's my review of Saint Nicholas: when it came time for my own children to find a private preschool, kindergarten and elementary school to attend, I wasn't going to assume the social environment at a private school would be healthy, inclusive, loving, or provide a positive social foundation. And, though of course I wanted my children to have the very best educational foundation possible, to provide them with the greatest optionality for later educational and career choices, I also knew that the social and emotional environment at a school is equally important -- possibly even more important, because of the foundational nature of what a young child comes to learn about their own innate value as a human being by how others relate to them. I, and more importantly my children, found Saint Nicholas to be the same kind of positive, inclusive, encouraging environment that I had experienced myself at the private schools where I had thrived as a child. Classmates were friends. Positive and respectful interactions with classmates were expected, encouraged, and fostered. It's all about the teachers! The teachers at Saint Nicholas are actually aware of how the students interact, they actually care about this just as much as excellent teaching and excellent curriculum, and, they are very gifted at not only helping the students learn greater social skills, but inspiring them to want to. And these teachers have been at Saint Nicholas school for a long time. Saint Nicholas will probably show you their top-ranking academic test scores and student accomplishments, or maybe you'll hear anecdotal stories from other parents about how their child went from being behind academically, to being ahead academically in just one year. But that's not what mattered to me, and I don't think it happens just because of academic excellence. I certainly don't think high national test scores tell the whole or even the most important part of the story. I think what matters most about a school is what the child learns about themselves, and the value of every human being. At Saint Nicholas, my children learned that they were smart, capable, and valuable. They learned that they could thrive in both inter-dependent and independent endeavors. They learned that they were worthy of both respect for who they were, and being called into the greater self they were growing into. Again - it's all about the teachers. The school administration is capable enough, but I don't believe a school can administrate this. Saint Nicholas has somehow gathered and kept some truly phenomenal and caring teachers.

There is no school in Houston like The Post Oak School. It is a rare and special gem, and we are…read moreso grateful to have found this amazing place of learning, community, and kindness. We have been part of the school for 10 years and have experienced multiple classrooms and grade levels across 3 children who each started in the Young Children's Community (as toddlers). Our eldest is on the verge of entering the Middle School, and it is clear that her experiences at the school thus far, along with the experiences of our other children, have established a deep love of learning, curiosity, self motivation, and innovation. It is such a special place. If you are looking for a place where your kids can both excel academically and also understand the importance of kindness, gratitude, and service, this is the school, and it is without equal.

This is a great school for pre-K through Middle School. When I first learned about this school, I…read morecould not believe I hadn't heard about the amazing Montessori method before. As a member of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), this school is one of the top. The children learn thorough academics, develop a true love of learning and exploration, and become very independent and responsible. "The Post Oak School is an educational leader both among Houston's top private schools and among the more than 5,000 Montessori schools across the country. Post Oak serves students from age 14 months through 8th grade, and is one of the U.S.' oldest Montessori schools (the oldest in the Southwest and one of only three Houston AMI schools). It has attracted an accomplished team of faculty and staff and built a campus dedicated to learning. The Post Oak School helps shape consistently high achievers."

As a parent of a small child, we were looking for a school where our son would be part of a…read morewelcoming, diverse community; where his curiosity and independence would be nurtured; and where he would be beloved by his teachers and adults. St. Stephen's ticked all our boxes and then some. We love the Montessori curriculum and it has been a really wonderful place for us as a family.

Great school. Great people. Wonderful community. Worth considering for personalized learning for…read moretoddlers - 8th grade.