We love St. Angela's Preschool! Our children have both been there since the age of 2 1/2, and we…read morehave been completely delighted with the quality of education and the warm family environment of the community. The educators all have years of experience in teaching preschool, and our children have grown and developed in leaps and bounds. Our kids have progressed from potty training to reading over the past few years, and we know that St. Angela's has fully prepared them for kindergarten and beyond! Although St. Angela's is a Catholic preschool, and there is religion and faith education, they are extraordinarily welcoming of all, and we have never felt that the teachings were exclusionary in any way. As Father Seamus said at one back to school night, "we welcome those of all faiths - or of no faith", and we can certainly attest to that welcoming attitude. Your toddlers will learn, grow, and develop into happy and healthy children here. Highly recommended.

What an amazing place. The people are kind, warm and caring. They start each day with an assembly…read morewhere the children sing and move their bodies. Play is the principal mode of learning. The schedule has a great amount of outdoor vs indoor, free time vs structured play. They had handled Covid with clear communication and realistic expectations. And above all, you can really tell they miss the children and are giddy to see them again.

This is THE most amazing preschool! Miss Krista, the Director is so passionate about preparing the…read morekids for school and teaching them the love of Jesus. All the teachers are so kind and love on the kids. We recently moved and there is literally no other school like this one!

My daughter attended Shoreline at the TORO PARK location for preschool. We couldn't have been more…read morehappy with our teacher Miss Kim and the structure of Shoreline. My daughter looked forward to going to class every time and felt comfortable and secure there (which is very important for a preschooler!). The class had the perfect number of kids to teacher ratio, classroom and out side area is very clean and organized. The kids learn to clean up their toys, set table, manners, communicate well with other students, sharing, scripture, songs, weather, etc. I highly recommend going for a tour and gathering info if your looking to send your little one to preschool soon!

As a first time mom, I was very skeptical about sending my son to a daycare; however I must say…read morethat I feel very fortunate to have found this place! (He started here when he was 18 months old). Nilo and her team are absolutely amazing and they truly care about all the children. This place is kept super neat and tidy at all times (inside and outside), and they take cleaning and sanitizing very seriously. I love the set up they have in the outdoor back area- so many fun things for kids to play with. My son is learning so much at this place - including good manners, social skills, singing and dancing, and etc. Nilo also cooks breakfast and lunch for all of her kids, which is pretty awesome. I would highly recommend!

My son absolutely loves it here! He is learning, growing, having fun and thriving. We couldn't be…read morehappier. We are so fortunate to have found this wonderful place!

Golden Childhood is a loving environment filled with rich experiences. The daily curriculum is…read morebased on academic and scientific early childhood development principles. Kids get incredible personal attention and teaching according to their individual needs and strengths. They do drawing, painting, gardening, cooking, music, crafts, feeding animals, cleaning, and more. It is incredible for the children. Classical music is played during working sessions to enhance little growing minds. Sofia recently earned her Doctorate of Philosophy in Education and is a leading expert in early childhood learning and teaching. She is extremely talented and the kids LOVE her (my daughter calls her Momma Sofia). Another great thing about Golden Childhood Days is that they check in via text or email multiple times per day with a short video of what our daughter is working on. I can't begin to explain how great it is to see these little video clips come in while I'm working and I get to see what my daughter is up to. It was especially reassuring when she first started going there. They will usually send a little video when she learns something new or to show what food she's eating. And the food! It is worth it to send your child to Golden Childhood for the food alone. All organic, locally sourced, ultra-healthy and hearty meals cooked by hand five times a day! I honestly could not believe it. My daughter loves the food and always says it's "yummy!" Uh, what else... The facility is secure; a big metal gate and fence surround the property and no unannounced guests or strangers are ever allowed on the grounds. The neighborhood is good. The staff are trained in emergency first aid, but they know how to avoid accidents and injuries. They will work with you on a schedule that fits your needs. The cost is in the higher range but absolutely worth it. I can't say enough good things about this school. If you are lucky enough to be able to send your child, you absolutely should! Your child will thrive here.

An amazing daycare, home away from home! I cannot be happier…read morewith our services here. Our previous daycare center got closed, so we needed to find a new provider in a short period of time. It was our first experience with home daycare so we didn't know what to expect. But Sofia (care provider) exceeded all our expectations. Convenient schedule, constant communication over the phone (she sends us videos daily), homemade meals with organic milk and products every two hours, different activities for the kids every day. Sofia speaks Russian to my baby (we have bilingual household) and created "dacha" (summer house) experience for my daughter where she is able to feed bunny and chickens, play outside, help with gardening, etc. Sofia has a PhD in early childhood development and always gives useful advices about our kid's milestones, behavior patterns, as well as helps with potty training. She feels a lot more like extension of the family, and I highly recommend "Golden Childhood Days" daycare.

The best school experience I could ever imagine for my child!!!! The office staff is always helpful…read moreand a pleasure to deal with. The site director is nice professional and an absolute joy to speak to!!! The teachers are amazing and loving to all of the children it's a safe clean environment for all the students definitely would recommend this preschool to all parents looking for a place their child can learn where they are safe and cared for.

Son started preschool here. Had to take him out of there. He rarely gets sick.. within his FIRST…read moreWEEK attending he got lice on his hair. Really bad bacterial conjunctivitis (pink eye) on both eyes that he had a hard time opening them due to crust all over them . And a really bad cold that gave him the longest cough he's ever had. All that lasted him almost two weeks. That school isn't sanitized . They don't check toddlers when going in like that sayd they would so it's getting spread around. We Done with that place.. front desk receptionist... Basic.. only reason why I gave it a 3 star is because I like and appreciate knowing they feed the toddlers. One less thing I get to worry about ..

So happy we found this preschool! My cousin highly recommended them, and were so glad to have…read morechosen them for our son. The teachers are amazing, miss Debbie and miss Olga are so warm and my son loves them. They encourage the kids to be adventurous and curious, and even noticed my son loved art and encouraged him to continue to explore it. Miss Monique the director is amazing. You can really tell they love what they do. They follow Covid protocols and made us feel comfortable with our son return to school. So sad that this is our son's last year but can't wait to bring our youngest there in a couple of years!

This preschool is very nice and organize and the teachers are great. However, the school principal…read morewas very rude and condescending when she talks. She's not very pleasant and her manners are by far from great. It's starting to give me second thoughts about enrolling my child here.

Our oldest boy was at MBCS from kindergarten thru 8th grade and was well prepared for high school…read more Our younger, 4 years later, also was at MBCS from kindergarten thru 8th grade. Both graduated at top of their classes. MBCS had about 15 in older son's 8th grade class and younger son's graduating 8th grade class had about 4 due to some staff changes that parents did not like. The education was still good and MBCS dealt with small class size (something the public schools complain about) by combining some grades. Which was not us parents' preference, but it worked. After all, the USA somehow survived long ago in the "one room school house" days of combined grades. It worked and our younger son graduated and went on to MVCS in Watsonville, like his older brother which was an academic kick butt school at least until his senior year when new leadership made changes the staff and students did not like ("IB" etc) and lost experienced teachers. MBCS is affordable at around $7,000 a year. Classes small. Teachers dedicated. They try hard for a small Christian school. And teach both academics for high school prep and good citizenship (Bible teachings) though one does not have to be a professed Christian to attend. Older son went on to MVCS (Watsonville) and was a top student and got a merit scholarship and then on to U.C.Davis which was good on classes but totally sucked at helping him get into a grad school. Davis did nothing to help. Happily older son made a friend of one professor who helped him get accepted into a good grad school in PA, Marywood University (Catholic) where I think she was alumni, and where he did well, got a job in his major and now works full time and is happy with everything but the weather (hot summers, cold winters...not Monterey, CA weather for sure!) It took a lot of effort to even get older son's diploma out of U.C.Davis...huge school, huge classes, huge graduation and so next to nothing in support timeliness and help. Plus did forced "get covid shots or get kicked out" right before classes started so no time to change schools. Younger was a top student at MBCS (the small, mixed grades classes did not hurt...maybe helped with so much individualized teacher/student attention), and then became a top student at MVCS and when applying for college, applied about a dozen schools and was accepted by all. He went to Simpson University in Redding, did well. Good teachers, ho hum counseling dept. A modest sized Christian college where he did well. Worst was 4 in a dorm room for Freshmen, after that he got double rooms with a friend as RA (dorm resident assistant. RA was a good deal...got 1/2 price on cafeteria and free room in dorm as I recall. Plus a $20,000 academic scholarship per year for 4 years. Which was nice for a $50k/year private college (tuition, books/fees, dorm, meals). Then he applied to grad schools, where all but SFSU (San Francisco) the last college I attended, accepted him and is now at Sacramento State University in a very tough doctoral grad program that makes him glad his previous schools were academically intense. So two kids, one now working for a couple hospitals (one full time and one part time) and one a top student due to intense hard work with a heavy, exhausting medical-related academic load, both got their start to successes at MBCS. A small, humble, caring K-8th Seaside, CA Christian school where they began. So yes, I like MBCS because it started out two kids out to a path to successes. And our young niece there is happy. Has friends and likes the teachers. Where could MBCS do better? It could send graded quizzes, tests, etc home each Friday so parents could get weekly "how their kid is doing?" feedback. I think that would be a very helpful idea. Weekly academics feedback instead of less frequent parent/teacher conferences. RH

This school has had a bit of administrative turnover since my children have been here, but it has…read morenot affected what has gone on in the classrooms whatsoever and they have had amazing teachers who absolutely love and live for the students. The principal they have now is amazing and a visionary. The academics for the younger grades (can't speak for older yet) have been great and challenging. Jesus is palpable on campus and everything they do from curriculum to leadership to discipline is through a Biblical world view. Everyone knows every students' name. They are extremely family oriented and all of the staff looks at the whole child before they see them as a student. The class sizes are small and the teachers really learn and work with the individual needs of the students and communicate so well with parents. The students are so well loved and cared for. It's a small but mighty and sweet school!

After meeting with Alma for an interview and checking out her place out and asking all the…read morequestions we had, everything seemed fine so we decided to take her there. My daughter began attending Alma's day care in North Salinas on Sept 30th, when she was a few days shy of 6months. Within the first couple weeks There were some things that I saw that kind of made me uneasy and brought me to question if I was doing the right thing by continuing to take her there. I will go more into detail at the bottom. I will begin with what just happened to me. On Monday 12/2/19I notified the provider that my daughters last day would be on 12/18/19 and will be cared by someone else in January. On Wednesday afternoon after picking my daughter up and getting home she sent me a text message stating that her last day would be Friday (Today 12/6). She was only giving me two days notice after we had agreed that 12/18 would be her last day. The least she could have done when I gave her 2.5 weeks notice, is told me that she was going to start looking for another infant ASAP and it would possibly be her last week. After receiving her text message I decided to call her. I was caught completely off guard and this was not how a business owner should communicate. She did not answer my phone call so I decided to just go the daycare and just pick up my daughters belongings. It was obvious she didn't want her there anymore so I did not feel comfortable taking my daughter there for the remaining days two days she had given me. After picking her belongings up I went home and got her daycare bottles out to wash. There was a very bad smell coming from them. It was MOLD! the next day I went to pick one more bottle that was left behind at the daycare. I knew that If the 2 bottles she first gave me had mold, the third one that was left at her home would also. I showed up and showed her the bottles with mold. Alma and her sister denied it and said the bottles were not given to me like that and that I brought those moldy ones from home. She handed me the third bottle so I opened it right there in front of her and and showed her the mold. She said she would buy me new bottles but that was NOT the point. The problem is that they were not washing the bottles properly and were feeding my daughter with the moldy bottles. If you have any infants I would not recommend taking your baby to her daycare. Other Things that happened during the time my daughter was there was that she got sick and throwing up and had a UTI, within the first two weeks of being there. after getting home from the hospital, I unpacked her daycare bag and saw her bib had berry stains all over it. My daughter was only eating rice cereal at the time so I asked if they gave her anything different and they denied feeding her any berries or anything other than rice cereal. They denied it and said maybe my son stained it. My son is 1 year and 8 months. There is no way he put the bib on and fed himself without me knowing. If they accidentally put the bib on another and been honest I would have been ok Also, when I first started taking my daughter with Alma I did not take her the full day. The first week I picked her up at different times and everytime I picked her up all the kids were sleeping . Out of the 2 months my daughter went there. I only saw the kids awake 3 times . They don't have a set schedule . During thanksgiving week I had my daughter with me and asked Alma if she can tell me what her schedule was like in regards to naps and feeding so I can keep her on the same schedule . She responded "we usually feed her when she's hungry, she sleeps in the morning and in the afternoon" . I do not recommend Alma's daycare .

My daughter has been through several daycares over the course of the last 5 years. Some due to…read moreclosure due to COVID and once after having a horrible experience with Samantha's daycare after the lack of patience I saw with my daughter. So I'm extremely weary of who is taking care of my daughter when my husband and I are at work. However, Ms. Alma is a true gem. My daughter absolutely loves going to her daycare and has learned so much. From expressing her artistic side, learning how to count and respectful mannerisms. She looks after our kids just like she would be watching her own. Thank you for all the beautiful memories you've been able to provide to us through my baby's art, pictures and fun/educational activities, Ms. Alma. So grateful that we found Ms. Alma's daycare!