Our family LOVES Canterbury Academy in Shawnee. Our 3.5 year old and 14 month old both love going…read moreevery day. Their teachers are caring, attentive, patient, and overall amazing! Both of our children learn so much every day and come home with new skills. In addition, the directors are fantastic and are always happy to help and answer our questions! Thank you Canterbury for taking such great care of our girls!

Welcoming environment, compassionate and caring directors, amazing teachers! We have loved sending…read moreour child to Canterbury. We know our son will be school ready when it's time. His love of books and music has grown exponentially since he started in November. I would highly recommend this school to parents wanting a safe and creative place that's like a 2nd home for them. Our son runs in everyday looking forward to seeing his friends and teachers.

We did a tour. The facility didn't impress us and that's OK, new management dealing with a weird…read morelayout. The staff - seemed like every single teacher was just sitting. Literally sitting. That's ok too, though. Teachers get tired and want to just sit. Here were our problems: While touring it was almost lunch time. We walked by sandwiches sitting on a paper plate with plastic wrap loosely placed over. Right above it was paint jugs - the kind that the paint has dripped all over. Still not horrible. Here's what was horrible: I asked about food preferences for my daughter and how we go about accommodating those. They said they don't accommodate those without a doctor slip. Insert confused face here. I clarified with the director and sure enough, she insists on a doctors note for a parent to choose what their child eats. I can say we toured many childcare options in a stretch of 10-15 miles and not one other facility had this response. In fact, All Around Child in Overland Park had this response when I asked: Oh our owner is very passionate about food options. Her and the chef sit and plan the menu every quarter and they design the food to all look the same even if one is vegetarian for example, so the kids don't feel odd about eating differently. And they're the same price! Shop around. Find the best option.

We attended for about a 6 weeks and found the center to be a very sterile/antiseptic environment…read more No sense of creativity, exploration, etc. They have a lot of fancy lesson plans but way too much structure for preschoolers. The kids are expected to sit on a vinyl circle on the floor quietly at look at books at 8am during drop off, no getting out toys/centers while their friends eat their microwaved breakfast. This expectation of course, does not work. Food is all casserole based and brought in from another site. Playground is nice but I once asked why there were no balls and they told me they get thrown over the fence. Ummm, they're kids, go get the balls. The security is good but reduces the sense of group/community and contact kids have with one another. I'm sure it affects employee morale too. We were unimpressed with our teacher who seemed just there to collect a paycheck and really couldn't tell me much about my sons day, development, peer interaction, etc. She was neither warm, friendly or fun. The director spends his afternoons on runs, as in running for exercise. The phone does not always get answered, when I call to check on my kid, I expect the phone to be answered. Every.Single.Time. The final straw for us was watching our kid (along with many others) sadly stand at the window every day and wave bye to their parents - heartbreaking. This never happened at our other center - literally never. I have a coworker who had to pull her son due to an unaddressed bullying issue. Despite this center being geographically ideal, it just was not worth it and we marched ourselves right back to Top Flight. We will never consider leaving again!

You won't find better care for your child. My child has been with them since she was a little over…read morethe age of two. It has been such a great experience. She has learned so much at such a young age. She's very advanced. All of the stuff genuinely cares about every single student as well.

You will not find better care for your kids! Dedicated staff who truly care for and engage with the…read morechildren. Our son happily runs into the building every day because he is so excited to go to school! Staff send lots of pics and videos daily and are very responsive.

We took my 5yr old granddaughter there for the first time yesterday and I am beyond impressed. The…read moreday we signed up I asked a few parents waiting to pick their kiddos up how they liked it, all game raving reviews. My granddaughter had been home for the past year due to Covid and really didn't want to go but we convinced her, and I'm so glad we did. The staff was beyond sweet and welcoming, the facility clean and organized, a large variety of creative and educational toys, and lots of indoor space to run jump and play. When I came to pick her up I heard her laughs the moment I opened the door. The staff said she had been having so much fun that she and agreed for me to sneak out and let her play some more. When she did come home she was exhausted, excited, and full of stories to tell. She was up, dressed, breakfast ate, and lunch packed (optional) an hour before we were supposed to leave, and this girl is so very not a morning person! Their prices are awesome, currently $8 per hour or $56 for 7-10 hours, and $4 for lunch if you choose to eat there. It's a drop in facility with extended evenings for those afternoon workers, and you only pay for the hours you are there. I highly recommend checking them out. Your kiddo won't be disappointed.

I dropped my almost 5 year old there and he seemed to enjoy it and we even signed up for a few more…read moredays for when our daycare is closed. It was $56 for a day which is very reasonable and the place was nicer than I expected for that rate! The only recommendation is that they should clarify what a day means since I was under the impression it was for 7 hours but it really was a range from 7-10 hours that are included in this price. With that being said, I may have misunderstood but all is good since I almost left work early to get him.

Still love this place and think very highly of the staff and teachers. We never worry about our…read morekiddo and she looks forward to going to Goddard every week. A++++

We've had such a wonderful experience with our son at Goddard. The teachers are incredibly caring…read moreand truly take the time to get to know each child. Communication has been excellent; we always feel informed and confident about his day. Most importantly, we've seen so much growth in him since starting here. He's learned so much and is excited to go each day. We're so grateful to have found d a place we trust and highly recommend this center to other families.

Children's Treehouse has been a wonderful place to take our son. The staff is professional,…read morepassionate, and most of all caring. They have diverse programs to promote learning and development for all ages. They use a wide variety of strategies to create opportunities for experiential learning and they make it fun. I really appreciate the library and the traveling artist. They really promote music learning as well. Most of all, when we've sat down for parent teacher conferences, it's clear that our son's classroom teachers really see him for who he is and meet him exactly where he is at. And it is clear they love our kid too. I would highly recommend this childcare center.

This school was pretty darn good, not gonna lie the principal MR. Kalis was a good principal and…read morethe secretary OMG you will want to be at the school forever I was a student at the school and if anybody that works at this school or the principal himself sees this all I have to say is Hi from Ross remember me I was a pain and sorry for being that way.

Fucking bullshit that the board would deny a 5 year old little girl with an iep who attended pre k…read moreat their school last year and did excellent and excelled in school.. all because there's a new principal and we moved

it sucks, I have to use a different email then my normal one because if the staff saw this i would…read moreprobably get suspended, but i am leaving the school next year so i dont really care anymore. they base the whole school off how rich you are and if you donate to the school. for example, this one kid cursed out a teacher, threatend to RAPE a girl, and got into multiple fights, but sense his parents pay the school a lot he just got a slap on the wrist. the teachers also suck, are english teacher got fired and we had multiple subs for MONTHS. so obviously we learned NOTHING. so when finals came around we expected to not have one in that class, but to our suprise, we had to take it still. And as expected multiple kids failed. all it is, is money hungry staff, would NOT reccomend.

As a parent of a former student of this school, I cannot tell you how poor of a decision choosing…read moreMaranatha for my child's Christian education was. They emphasize requiring children to work out their problems themselves. In spirit, this appears to be a great tool to equip children to become resourceful and accountable adults. In hindsight, this emphasis is built on a utility the school uses to separate children from their parents on an emotional level. This school is EXACTLY what we were trying to avoid in the public school system. This school believes they are better equipped to raise your children than you are, and when you are able to recognize this, you see it in everything they do. For example, parents are not allowed to speak to teachers without using the school's provided communication systems (which do not allow you to keep a backup of for your own records.) No personal emails, text messages, phone calls, or the like -- they want to monitor every exchange parents have with any employee of the school and they retain and control all access to these communications. In multiple interactions with administration, it became highly apparent that this school is harboring some highly narcissistic and mentally deranged people. Please, for the sake of your children, run far away! We did, and couldn't be happier. We only wish we had not made this mistake at all.

This school had a marvelous director who retired after 30 years. The new director is as bad as the…read moreprevious director was good. I am very appalled at the lack of true Christian understanding and actual practice of it. So incredibly disappointing after the last director. I fault the priest as well. Pretty heartbreaking experience. Do not send yours child here honestly.

From the owner: Holy Trinity Early Education Center has been offering excellent early childhood programs to the…read moreLenexa community for over 40 years. We are a faith based program for children two through 12 years, including full day preschool, part-day preschool, kids day out, school age programs and super fun summer programs. Located in the first floor of the Father Quigley Center, our facility is child centered to insure both safety and optimum educational support. We use both the Creative Curriculum and Handwriting Without Tears as well as the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for faith formation. We encourage you to come by and visit our program so you can see all the wonderful things happening here at HTEEC!