Orange Tea has a very special place in our hearts! After my toddler went to another local daycare…read morecenter for 9-months and we were very unsatisfied, we found Orange Tea and have been there ever since. My now 5-year old is graduating to kindergarten but his little sister has been here since she turned 2.5. Teachers Kerry and Andrew run a compassionate preschool with lots of exploration play, unstructured time outside, weekly themes, art, healthy food, and so much emotional intelligence education. The school is small (one mixed-age class), which means the big kids learn to care for the little kids. My kids are delightful, polite, and caring humans and I credit this school with almost all of that influence. If you're reading the reviews (which are old), know they are no longer drop-in, and masks are only worn after a community exposure event, though they were previously worn 100% of the time for almost 2 years of covid.

My 2-year-old son loves this preschool. We initially heard about OTS when they moved to our…read moreneighborhood. We had been on the waiting list for another daycare for over two years already, and when our second arrived three weeks early, we decided to give it a try. At the time, our son was acting out and very jealous of his new sister. His enrollment at OTS has really helped his transition from only child to big brother. While it's always difficult sending a child to school for the first time, I couldn't imagine a more nurturing environment for him. Teacher Kerry and Teacher Andrew are absolutely wonderful with the kids. I love their focus on emotional intelligence because it was what my son needed at the time--and truly what any child this age needs. I also noticed that his manners have improved tremendously since he started attending their school. Although we had been working consistently with him on manners, he would often need reminders. After a few months at OTS, everything finally clicked, and he even asks to be excused from the dinner table. Aside from good manners, his imagination has really taken off and he engages more in pretend play. Prior to his time at OTS, he was very needy and always asked one of us to play with him. Now he exhibits more independence and takes the lead in pretend play. I believe the small, intimate, home environment of OTS has really enabled him to thrive. It's like his home away from home, and I know he thinks of Teacher Andrew, Teacher Kerry and the other kids like family. I'd highly recommend OTS to any parent, but particularly to those whose kids are leaving home for the first time. What a wonderful find.

I absolutely love Tiny Cabin Montessori! The space is adorable and so calming. My daughter loves…read moreBrianna and the other teachers and is always coming home with the cutest crafts.

This has been great for our daughter! Wonderful facility, lots of outdoor play, fun toys and…read moreBrianna is great! Really glad this is in our neighborhood.

We moved our son to The Meridian School in 3rd grade after our former school was unable to meet his…read moreacademic needs. That move was the absolute best decision we could have made. The Meridian School offers intentional small group and experiential education grounded in proven science based academic strategies. Beyond core academic excellence and targeted support for all learners, The Meridian School excels equally in social emotional learning. Meridian learners and staffers live the school values of kindness and caring for themselves, for each other and for the community. We love being so close to many wonderful organizations in the Good Shepard Center and find the public park setting such a perfect way to be open to the neighborhood and the world. We wholeheartedly recommend The Meridian School to all families!

We have a 2nd and 5th grader at the Meridian School and could not be more impressed with the…read moreleadership, faculty and community at the school. The assistant head of school and interim head of school are very accessible, responsive and communicate effectively with staff, faculty and families. The board of trustees has a strong vision for the school rooted in its mission. We really appreciate the integrated curriculum featuring multiple specialist classes: music, health and fitness, creativity lab, science, library, Spanish, art. In the creativity lab, our children routinely have projects incorporating engineering, design, critical thinking, problem solving, coding, animation and robotics. Teachers regularly collaborate on project based-learning opportunities. The experiential learning takes the learning beyond the classroom. My daughter's grade has five field trips planned this year. Overnight grade-level trips begin in 3rd grade and by the time students graduate they have participated in a total of 5 overnight grade-level field trips around the Pacific Northwest. The trip to Mountain School at the North Cascades Institute was my son's favorite. All of these are included in tuition and covered by financial aid plans. The k-2 and 3-5 learning specialists are very dedicated. My 2nd grader has benefitted from extra academic support in the classroom. My 5th grader has received additional enrichment in math and language arts since he has surpassed grade-level benchmarks. The admissions director provides individual support to families as they embark on process of applying to independent middle schools in 5th grade. We found the community to be warm, welcoming and very engaged. Our family has made many lifelong friendships through the school.

Woodland Park Cooperative School is a dream come true. After being a preschool teacher for about a…read moredecade, I had strong preferences for the experiences I wanted my kiddo to have. Woodland Park Coop checks all the boxes. Kids are not just allowed, but facilitated in genuinely exploring and experimenting and just being kids together. The multi-age program enables younger and older kids to learn from each other in ways same-age groups just don't. The community fostered in this space feels like home. Families linger to spend time after class is over, we meet up on off-days, we potluck together, and we help each other in our homes. This is no ordinary preschool experience. This is our children's school, but it's also ours. We learn together and we create it. It is us and we are it. We partner with the Teachers and the Parent Educator, we each have a job to keep the school running. We take care of each other and of each others' children. This is a community of mutual-aid and genuine generosity. I'm so happy we still have 3 more years to go because there's a Kindergarten program, too!! You couldn't ask for a better, more engaged and aware kindergarten teacher than Teacher Quinn. And because we all overlap on the playground every day, the youngest kids get to see the oldest kids engaged in the deep conversations, the complex play, and the hard work that they do. Sometimes the preschool kids even get to join in the kindergarten fun. The only problem is where to go for first grade. But that's a 2029 problem.

We love WPC so much! Not only is it a totally unique preschool experience for my kiddo, with its…read more"junkyard" style playground that really gets his imaginative gears turning, but also the culture among the teachers and caregivers is incredibly welcoming and kind. I have learned so much about early childhood development through the WPC parent education program (facilitated through North Seattle College). It's an all-around great experience. My kid started there at age 2.5 and I am planning to send him through Kindergarten!

This is my son's 3rd year at Seattle Waldorf. We love our school. The school is a beautiful…read morecommunity where my child is seen and nurtured. Teachers and administrators are very creative and supportive in their work with all children. My child has greatly benefited from the large beating heart of this school. He's engaged in every class and is happy and excited to go to school. He's learned so much and the pace is thoughtful and age appropriate. Not only is he learning academically he's also made huge leaps socially and emotionally. He's grateful to get the chance to be outside and also creating with his hands every day. His experience in this community is helping him develop a rich depth of knowledge and self worth that will be something he can rely on for the rest of his life.

We've had a wonderful experience at this school. The teachers are passionate and genuinely care…read moreabout each child's academic and social-emotional growth. The curriculum is well rounded, thoughtfully integrating arts, sciences, and social studies in a way that keeps students engaged and inspired. In the days of AI, this kind of education truly helps students build resilience and strong critical-thinking skills. I'm so happy with my child's development--she enjoys going to school every day and is genuinely enthusiastic about learning. We feel very fortunate to be part of this community."

My younger sister and I used to go to BF Day, and our baby sister goes there now, and let me tell…read moreyou, that is dang good school. It's a small-ish school (as most elementary schools are) in Fremont, near the Woodland Park Zoo. BF Day is rather diverse in all meanings of the word, and does a good job of teaching kids that everyone is important and loved. The parents are generally lovely, as are the teachers, though many of my favorite staff members have retired. It can be a bit of a hippy school, but that is far from a negative, it just encourages kids to explore their creative sides and embrace themselves. I haven't heard a single negative thing about BF Day, though I do know that due to some zoning issues, a lot of kids have lost their transportation, which is a majorly sucky, but I don't believe that the school is at fault there. tl;dr BF Day is pretty much the best and everyone who went there loved it

NOT CLOSED, people! Not at all! When I moved my boys and me…read morenorthward from Portland to Seattle, I had researched the "cluster" school system (never was a name more appropriate for a system or situation), though my research was clearly insufficient. Because I made certain that I moved into what I thought would be the perfect cluster for my kids' schooling needs and profile...I just failed to realize that would make no difference whatsoever to where they went to school. My boys are half hispanic, and I wanted very much to continue with the Spanish language education I only sporadically inflict on them at home. So I moved into the Laurelhurst-ish "cluster." What Seattle did not advertise is that its school zoning situation is not just a cluster, but the mother of all godforsaken clusters. They found no availability in any ONE school for both my boys. That's because clusters at the time were only "suggestions" of where kids could attend schools. Suggestions that were largely completely ignored, and no matter where you lived in Seattle, your kid could be bussed into nearly any zone at all. So you can basically move your family onto a tent settlement ATOP a particular school, and not be allowed to enroll in it until the 300-child wait list of kids from a school 15 miles away takes their priority. W, as the kids say, TF. So the last years have been a constant cluster indeed, with my boys in two different schools and and in and out of several. Having tried or toured quite a few schools in the area now, I can say, this one is my favorite elementary school in Seattle so far. My son has a wonderful teacher, Miss Jackson (and yes, it is so punishingly hard not to say, or at least think, "If you're nasty!" every time I say her name) who despite being forced, as all teachers are, to teach to a strict test curriculum imposed by the lowest-common-denominator-encouraging "No Child Left Behind" legislation, is still highly dynamic, wildly flexible, and very encouraging of creativity in all its manifestations. I absolutely love her, and I love the diversity of the students and the parents--a graceful blend of the privileged and the struggling, chaotic and the orderly, the uber-hippies and the uber-hipsters who all somehow manage to be very empathic and very likable. It also sits at just the right notch on the spectrum of academic rigor. We tried John Stanford International with Nico, and he called them "The Von Trapp Family Singers." Whistles to encourage hallway lineups? No talking in the corridors? Boys' and Girls' lines for 5th graders? No dark sarcasm? In the CLASSROOM?! Yikes. Plus every mom I met there without a single exception kind of gave me the impression that the only hard decision she has to make in any three-week period is whether to give her cook, nanny and housekeeper massages or Lush bars as holiday gifts. I'm extremely grateful for this school and for how happy Maximo is to attend it. Teaching excellence here is clearly valued, as is parental involvement. If you're in the area AND in the market for an elementary school, stop in and say hi. They're great people.

My kid is excited to go to school everyday. We love all stars kids! He is having so much fun and he…read morelearned a lot

We've been with ASKC for 2 years now and it's an amazing place, they have a great sense of…read morecommunity and provide the kids with an abundance of activities and experiences. We came from Co-op preschool so I really wanted to look for a place that offered parents more involvement. It's great to have a sense of belonging as a parent, we get to know the other parents really well. Our daughter loves it there and gives her teacher great big hugs when we drop her off, she comes running and giggling to us when we pick her up. +A all the way!

After narrowing my preschool search down to montessori style instruction, I visited 4 schools, all…read moreso very different. But what sold me on SPM were the kids. On my first visit, my son had jumped right into the classroom and was trying to muscle in on one girl's art project. She politely told him no and then showed him how he could do his own. She got better results than I ever did in getting him to listen to her! Seeing how well the other kids were obviously projecting the lessons of sharing & instruction that they'd learned was huge for me & I hadn't witnessed that at any of the previous schools.

I joined Yelp specifically to review small planet. I love, love this school. My daughter…read morethoroughly enjoyed going here for the one year that she did. Martha is a wonderful human being and teacher. My daughter has special needs and is a very nervous child. But she was always happy to go to school here and asks for Martha even though we have moved out of town. Her new school isn't nearly as good and we miss Martha dearly. I urge you to send your child here, you won't regret it.