This daycare is amazing! The staff is kind, caring, and truly attentive to the kids. The…read moreenvironment is clean, safe, and full of fun learning activities. It gives me so much peace of mind knowing my child is in such great hands. I highly recommend it to any parent looking for a supportive and loving daycare!

LOVE and recommend preschool impressions!!! Students enjoy the variety of activities, learning art…read moreprojects, story time , games, overall songs, and meals! teachers are wonderful at welcoming re-directing students if she or he is sad during drop offs Highly recommended!

Where do I start? Would post many more stars if I could. This place is a part of our family after…read more11 years of sending kids here. During this time, every teacher and administrator has become a cherished friend and part of our children's lives. Our oldest still talks about how much he loved it here and how excellent the food is:-). Finding a place you trust with your kids is no easy task. We found that with southwest. Highly recommend you take a tour and see how great this place is for yourself.

Horrible would be a gentle euphemism...I pulled my daughter outta here couple years ago & still…read morehear the horror stories...honestly, my daugher was bitten over 20 times in the span of a year & their response at the end was that "This is just what kids do", really? In the summer they didnt take kids' sweaters off to play outside(since their a/c was cranked up so high inside the kids had to wear them) I picked up my daughter a couple times, her face (among all the others) all red & flustered saying she was hot and thirsty...wow No structure either, all they're doing is babysitting and the kids run wild, no education. They offer food but chow time is just that~ one bowl in the middle of the table & the kids eat as fast as they can to make sure they're gonna get their portion, that's terrible on the digestive system at any age. When I did pull my daughter out they had her outside waiting, on the steps, with her belongings & a staff memeber standing up above. Real nice in the dead heat of summer. They say they are a 5-star rated facility, however when you observe how the rating system works, they need only a kitchen facility to attain this rating, ridiculous! Need I go on? Dont send your little ones here...They dont seem to care much

I was supersized I read so many negative reviews of this place. I will say prior to my son…read moreattending this place we had the worst experience with the public school preschool program and special education classroom. At the previous school my child was hit by a teacher and we created an investigation. So I wanted my child to be in an educational system in which I could have access to video monitoring services and one that held teachers accountable. So I as any parents of a little one I was skeptical of every place that I went to observe and I ended liking kiddie academy because of their philosophy, rules, and how they hold teachers accountable. My child has a few couples of days getting used to his new school and he did bite a child one day and got suspended. However in no time he learned to get a long with the rest of the children and be friends with children. I saw my child grow as the little butterfly he is and be confident in his social skills and educational journey. He was able to graduate from pre-K with his peers and do the summer program as well. He loved it so much that me that he is in kinder he tells me he misses Kiddie academy friends and teachers. The team is amazing and wonderful and I will forever be grateful they took care of my little one as one of theirs.

My child was bitten a documented 32 times at this center. It was known there was a consistent child…read morewho bit. Despite the multiple discussions with management and staff, my 2 year old son continued to be bitten. The management had an attitude of "kids will be kids" and not an attitude of how to make sure he and the other children were not bitten. One or two bites may be a toddler behavior but not 32. The lack of care, or plan put in place was the reason we had to disenroll. It was not fair to my son to go to school everyday in that type of environment. The only reason I didn't give it one star was because there were a couple teachers I liked at the school.​

Great daycare with caring and friendly staff! My child enjoys going every day, and I feel…read morecomfortable knowing they are in a safe and welcoming environment. Highly recommend!

The teachers and director completely betrayed the trust of my family. They made false claims…read morereported to CYFD after a home visit for beginning of this school year. They literally falsified information based on whatever prejudice they have against myself and father to my children. When CYFD followed up at the same home they reported - the investigator told us their report was 'frivolous and a waste of time' = UNSUBSTANTIATED. I contacted one of the teachers directly regarding their actions, and she told me the director would contact me- and she never did! I will never recommend this place to anyone. And during class time visits last year, one of the staff was being extremely rude and militant with some of my son's classmates, rather than exploring positive discipline approaches. I should have recognized that as a red flag, but had more faith in them than I really should have. These people lack integrity, are untrustworthy, and act completely fake - all smiles to your face when they obviously pass judgment behind your back. My kids are already enrolled in a new wonderful program, so we find this terrible incident to have been a blessing in disguise. Please, take your children elsewhere.

I really love this school and I am so happy I found it last year. My kiddo is now in the Pre-K…read moreprogram and I know with the dedication and passion these teachers have, he'll sail into kindergarten with ease. I love the parent involvement that the school has with their program. You get involved with their learning and help this little school at the same time. Can't say enough about this program, they are simply the best!

Our son, now a year old, has been in this childcare center since he was about 8 weeks old. They…read morehave caring multicultural teachers and great, supportive front office people. They've also been very positive as regards our family makeup in specific. We're looking forward to the next years at this center before school begins for our son.

poor communication, rude staff, uncaring people. Very disorganized. Worst place I've put my son in…read more! ! I really wish that I would have chosen another preschool for my son. Uncomfortable goin in every day. My son was enrolled for maybe 3 weeks the staff was very aggressively rude when it came to communication. My son was coming home everyday talking about how the teachers are mean everyday that I walked in, and they had something every day to say to me wen I walked in...and they had something DIFFERENTto tell me. My son has been in different centers since he was a baby. Albuquerque nursery. Noah's ark. And never in my life did I feel the need to move him unless it was our location. Everyday walking in was so stressful, wondering what are they going to tell me the next time I walk in. My recommendation is choose another preschool because I know I am. When I had first gone and they scheduled me a home visit,then without any notice the day of the home visit they told me that they weren't going to make it, then they had schedules me another day and once again very rudely the other teacher told me that she was in charge and that I had no home visit the day that I had asked if they were coming. An incident happened one day with my child. And no one knew what happened, yet at the parent-teacher conference they said that everything was fine and that it wasn't my son's fault. And upon the third time it was brought up to me the lady in the office Karen said that my son just went and started being mean to everyone out of nowhere.I had already talked to the staff three times I don't understand why they kept coming up to me telling me about my child about the same incident and none of the stories matched up. I went to go ask who I talk to in the parent-teacher conference. And they just sent me away telling me to talk to the lady in the office that I have was just talking to. I got fairly upset and I really don't feel the need to feel that way , my son loves School. Stress levels were skyrocket. I really wish I had a chosen another preschool to begin with.

This is an excellent before/after/summer program for kids! My daughter(s) attended Children's…read moreChoice (CC) throughout elementary, and then my youngest daughter was back for her last year of the Summer program. She is always busy, and the staff are fully engaged with the kids. The current Site Director at Comanche ES, Josh R., is amazing and just seems to "get" kids. But maybe even more impressive was the reaction of the central office several years ago when I was disappointed with the past Site Director. They immediately engaged with her to provide direction and assistance. Did it make everything perfect? No, but it was improved and they really tried to help without making me feel bad. But the best review? My daughter wants to go every day during the summer instead of sleeping in and playing video games!

Children's choice preschool has been great for our child. The teachers do a lot of neat activities…read morewith the kids and the facility is fantastic. With a climbing wall, art room, imaginarium and more. It is fantastic. Our daughter loves it!

TO NOTE: THIS DAYCARE EXCHANGES WAIVED FEES FOR POSITIVE REVIEWS…read moreThis daycare - run by Owner and Executive Director Crystal Tapia and her family members who are in all the administrative staff roles, is an overall disappointment, untrustworthy, unsafe and very clearly more interested in the money they are able to bring in instead of the families they are working with or children they are "caring for." The two main problems we experienced with this daycare - 1. there is a lot of dishonesty and shady behavior regarding money - it is clearly their sole concern and 2. children safety and supervision is severely lacking. First, the money. There were several instances in which we were given incorrect tuition and fee information, repeatedly, by administrative staff only to find out the fees were much more upon required payment. We were among many families who received this tuition information - which is a huge deciding factor when choosing a daycare - only to find out when payment was requested that the tuition was actually higher. No apologies were issued, no courtesy credits or compromises given to make things right for the families who had budgeted for the prior amount. We escalated this to Crystal, hoping she would offer some sort of a solution, explanation or further our understanding of the miscommunication and how it can be avoided moving forward. She offered no explanation or apology. She sat in our meeting with her arms crossed and a smirk on her face. She told us that if she were to honor the price we were given by her staff (on multiple, separate occasions over the course of several months) then SHE WOULD HAVE TO FIRE SOME OF HER TEACHERS at the center because she wouldn't be able to afford the $100-$200 dip in revenue per month. Her offered solution was if we didn't like the new secret price we could find a new daycare. This cold and dismissive response - along with the insulting, blatant lie about having to fire teachers to rectify the situation, from the Owner/Executive Director of the daycare (not to mention COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE DEPARTMENT AND TREASURER OF THE NEW MEXICO CHILD CARE AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION) was absolutely appalling. The dishonesty and lack of concern should have been insight enough as to the type of establishment this was -despite the beautiful quote about God leading the daycare in the entryway. But we found a way to pay the higher tuition since our child had already been established and we didn't want to uproot. Throughout our time there, we were consistently harassed to purchase expensive Gala tickets to support one of Crystal's causes, as well as 5k tickets and other fundraisers that I have a very low level of trust and confidence as to where the money was actually going, given our experience. Now, to the child safety and lack of supervision. Our young child was bullied often in the classroom as well as on the playground. In the classroom, there was one child in particular who hit, bit, shoved, screamed, etc, at our child among others. Of course, I am a parent and fully understand that these things happen with small children. The issue was brought to the attention of the teacher multiple times, as our child was consistently coming home with marks. We were told they would try to keep this child away from our child, but there wasn't much they could do. We were also told that the bully had autism and his behavior was CAUSED by our child, because our child was too loud and the bully was sensitive to noise. Our child also ran into some bullying on the playground, as the small children were let out on the playground at the same time as the older kids and after-school program kids. Again, nothing they could do. Crystal often had media on the daycare campus to interview her or promote one of her causes/fundraisers - often on the playground. I wonder if less effort went in to her self-promotion, and more effort went into the supervision of our children, if there would have been less incidents. I am grateful, however, for our experience with Crystal and her family/staff, as we have learned in great detail what we would like to avoid at all costs in future daycares and schools.

It appears that the previous review left by Mary was intended for the New Mexico Early Learning…read moreAcademy. As parents ourselves, we have had a similar experience with NMELA. We have noticed that the well-being and education of the children in their care is not their top priority and that they seem more focused on making money. We have also observed that NMELA mistreats their good teachers while putting poor-performing family members in charge of the facility. It is concerning that they do not have enough teachers to adequately watch over the children, despite advertising a low student-teacher ratio. We highly recommend entrusting your children's care to qualified professionals who prioritize their well-being and education. Unfortunately, NMELA appears to be more concerned with their public image than fulfilling their role as an educational institution. Noah's ark is professionally-managed. It is suspicious that reviews for NMELA are under Noah's Ark.