Best Child Care in Palo Alto, CA
Challenger School has been inspiring children to achieve since 1963. Challenger School Middlefield is a Palo Alto private school with unmatched academic results. Our students scored in the top 10%...
Preschool
Our exceptional preschool programs lay the foundation for our students’ future learning. Challenger preschoolers enjoy an effective mix of music, reading, math, art, drama, social relating time, science, and physical activities that aim to improve small and large motor skills. Your child will be provided a strong foundation academically and socially. With several preschool programs available year round, we have one that will fit your family’s schedule.
Summer Camp
In Challenger’s enjoyable summer program, teachers and administrators strive to instill in students a love for learning that will last a lifetime. They prepare students with a bedrock foundation of knowledge, encourage them to take responsibility for themselves, and help them develop logical and independent thinking skills. Our students have loads of fun along the way! Challenger offers both half-day and all-day summer programs. In our summer program, uniforms are not required.
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Bilingual family child care near Stanford University campus. Children are encouraged to learn through play, interaction, and participation. Curriculum focuses on preparing children socially,...
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Tikiland offers a variety of programs for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, including our Drop-In Program & bilingual English-Spanish curriculum. Our highly trained staff fosters a love for...
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Infant Program (Tikiland Daycare & Preschool)
Our Infant Program (0–1) offers a safe, nurturing space where babies grow through tummy time, baby sign language, bilingual songs, puppet shows, and sensory exploration. With small group sizes, outdoor play, and warm caregivers, we support each baby’s development at their own pace.
Speaks Spanish
Little Ducks Daycare has been serving the community for over 20 years. We offer full-time and part time childcare and early education for children 6 weeks to 5 years of age, in a safe and nurturing...
Speaks Spanish
Award winning facility houses this preschool program located in the Cubberly Community Center. Curriculum focuses on Kindergarten readiness by learning through play.
Speaks Spanish
Co-op preschool offering learning-through-play experiences for young learners. Program features a parent education component and is organized and administered by parents under the direction of trained...
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Montessori preschool program located at a Child Development Center in Palo Alto. Children gain independence by participating in child-led activities. Language immersion programs are also available.
Speaks Spanish
Inclusive preschool program offering balanced, developmentally curriculum to help children learn and grow socially and academically. Program emphasizes inclusion, acceptance, play, and creativity...
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Infant and toddler care center near the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto. Provides care for newborns through 3-year-olds.
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Structured preschool offering early learning services to preschool-age children. Curriculum promotes learning through play and offers an educational environment for children to learn and grow....
Speaks Spanish
Preschool program follows multiple educational theories while keeping children's interests in mind and allowing for hands-on, experiential learning. Program goal is to prepare children for the next...
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Imaginemos Oruguitas is a Spanish immersion preschool and daycare in Palo Alto, offering a nurturing environment where children can learn and grow through imaginative play and interactive learning....
Speaks Spanish
Welcome to Learn & Play® Montessori in Palo Alto, offering full-day care and early learning for toddlers through kindergarten-aged children. This school provides a calm, structured setting where...
Toddler
Our Toddler Montessori Program is a fun, loving, and respectful place for our youngest students to become independent and self-confident individuals. Our daycare and childcare programs are Montessori-inspired, and offer best-in-class daycare and childcare for toddlers. We encourage them to explore their rich classroom environments by making their own choices from among a wide variety of developmentally appropriate materials. Our resourceful Toddler classrooms promote language, math, practical life exercises, science, and the arts as well as fine and gross motor activities. Individual attention is paid to promoting each child’s emerging language skills and each child’s curiosity to explore all of the learning materials and the outdoors. The primary goal is to support the children’s physical, cognitive, social, and emotional growth and to nurture their sense of being in a secure and stimulating environment.
Preschool
Our preschool program provides an enriching hands-on learning experience with specially formulated Montessori materials for math, language, sensorial exploration, practical life activities, art, science, second language, music, history, and geography. Our preschool children develop observation and problem-solving skills. They are able to achieve this by manipulating, experimenting, and discovering through Montessori materials and prepared environment. Children begin to move from the concrete to the abstract as they prepare for the more complex studies used in our Montessori Kindergarten program.
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Established, nurturing childcare facility. Children learn through curiosity and exploration and parent participation is encouraged.
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Non-profit, part-time nursery school on the site of the Friends Meeting House, near Ohlone Elementary School. Modified parent co-op program, requiring 3 workdays per year and participation in...
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Cooperative preschool and nursery school program for children. Play-based curriculum encourages children to learn through hands-on experiences. Lessons are designed to develop independence and social...
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A warm and loving facility providing care and educational experiences to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Children are grouped by age with a low child/adult ratio to promote social, mental, and...
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Gan Preschool is a Jewish, Reggio and Montessori inspired preschool where each child is individually nurtured and celebrated! Learning is experiential, and your child will love learning their aleph...
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Multicultural international preschool and elementary school providing child-centered Montessori education to young children. School is committed to providing a carefully planned environment to help...
Speaks Spanish
Comprehensive arts-integrated program using creative philosophy specifically focused on "whole child" development promoting six key areas of development including emotional, social, cognitive,...
Infants
In this class we brighten up the world by helping our youngest children discover their senses, explore their surroundings, nurture their development and celebrate their milestones. From one-on-one interactions that help build nurturing relationships in everyday moments to age-appropriate books to support speech and language development, our classrooms provide the ideal setting for the youngest children. We are also encouraging children to work on finger painting, music, and pretend play to spark creativity while also exposing them to structures to help with perceptual motor development. When children leave this classroom they will have a Brighter Beginning to the world around them.
Young Toddlers
Our classroom provides an ideal environment to foster individual development and self-help skills. We use a scaffolded approach to learning through systematically building on students’ experiences and knowledge as they are acquiring new skills in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. Their curious minds are exposed to an enriched curriculum focusing on language development by using pictures, books and basic academics in their environment. Following simple instructions is implemented through circle time, story time, art, and curriculum projects. Besides the social, emotional development, we also focus on developing fine motor skills through fun and sensory activities. Our Little Explorers are ready to put to practice their newfound independence by exploring their surroundings as they come with a Brighter understanding of their world around them.
Also offers: Older Toddlers, Preschool, Pre-K
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Childcare center and preschool program for infants through Pre-Kindergarten. Site utilizes a play-based curriculum focused on inspiring a love of learning through a combination of early academics and...
Infant Daycare
Infant program offering a physically and emotionally safe place for your baby to explore and learn about the world around them. Shoe-free policy ensures that classrooms are clean and safe for little ones to move around. Daily routine includes time outdoors, group time, and discovery baskets for sensory exploration. Trained teachers spend time cuddling, singing, and reading to your child.
Toddler Daycare
Toddlers are on the go, exploring and learning new things throughout each day. Classrooms are kid-size in design, allowing children to do more things independently, building their self-confidence. Photos of the children’s families cover the walls of the classroom, creating a sense of community. Daily routine includes: outdoor play, circle time, dance & movement, reading, art, music, and free play.
Also offers: Preschool Program, Discovery Preschool, Prekindergarten Program
Speaks Spanish
Non-profit early childhood center offers infant care as part of a larger program for children up to age five. Program is located at Palo Alto VA Hospital and reserves 70% of enrollment for families...
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We are thrilled to be part of the Building Kidz Worldwide family of campuses, providing local Palo Alto families a plethora of services including toddler care, preschool, after-school for children up...
Infants
In this class we brighten up the world by helping our youngest children discover their senses, explore their surroundings, nurture their development and celebrate their milestones. From one-on-one interactions that help build nurturing relationships in everyday moments to age-appropriate books to support speech and language development, our classrooms provide the ideal setting for the youngest children. We are also encouraging children to work on finger painting, music, and pretend play to spark creativity while also exposing them to structures to help with perceptual motor development. When children leave this classroom they will have a Brighter Beginning to the world around them.
Older Toddlers
Our classrooms are filled with endless learning opportunities to enhance children’s cognitive and language skills with basic academics through small-group activities that encourage investigation, exploration, and discovery. Our scaffolding approach is a critical component in teaching new tasks with multiple steps where our teachers provide support for students. Our children that are now engaging in short sentence conversions are able to absorb information within our curriculum that is designed to support creative expression, literacy and music by fostering their curious minds. By introducing skills that enable independence through enriching art projects and hands-on activities, we are ensuring they are able to expand concepts that were developed in Little Explorers.
Also offers: Young Toddlers, Preschool, Pre-K
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Club-J is a Monday–Friday after-school program at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto that runs until 6:00 PM. Club J is a one-of-a-kind, licensed program that provides a wide range of activities that...
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OFJCC Leslie Family Preschool is a Jewish, play-based preschool located in Palo Alto, inspired by a constructivist and innovative approach to education. We are an inclusive, warm, and nurturing...
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Preschool program near Mitchell Park where children learn through curiosity and play. Ample outdoors time is available for students.
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An eclectic, Waldorf-inspired preschool focusing on the growth and development of the whole child. This hands on environment strives to build community and empower children.
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A holistic preschool that focuses on promoting curiosity and seeks to instill a love of learning. Community oriented, this facility strives to create a larger family so that each child feels supported...
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Non-profit infant and toddler care center near Robles Park. Experienced staff provide lots of individual attention to babies in well-equipped indoor and outdoor play areas.
Speaks Spanish
Warm environment where children are engaged in activities that stimulate all their senses and provide a platform for independent learning.
Speaks Spanish
Play-based in-home daycare for infants through 5 years old. Located near Mitchell Park and across the street from the Palo Alto Junior Museum. Children spend part of their day playing outside in the...
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Montessori preschool for older toddlers the Palo Alto, Stanford, and surrounding communities since 1977. Program and curriculum are designed to encourage imagination and self-confidence while offering...
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Spanish-immersion preschool across the street from Escondido Elementary School and Stanford University. Program is designed to include children who do not speak any Spanish at enrollment; curriculum...
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Preschool encouraging family involvement knowing that Children develop at different times. Engaging the mind at an early age is important for growth and learning.
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Beginning in Preschool, our teachers create an encouraging learning environment that allows students to flourish. Stratford’s curriculum is designed to develop the cognitive, social, emotional, and...
Early Preschool
Between the ages of two and three brain power increases at an astonishing rate. Maximizing on this formative year, our Early Preschool teachers create a joyful and nurturing learning environment in which budding academic and social-emotional skills flourish. Early preschoolers grow in their independence, language, and thinking skills through a predictable and supportive daily routine which includes preparing them for the next chapter — Preschool! Note: Part-time programming is subject to availabilty.
Preschool
Our teachers provide a warm, caring, joyful environment that encourages preschoolers’ natural curiosity, and instills confidence in their innate abilities. By balancing traditional instruction in reading, writing, and math with art, music, and foreign language, the Stratford preschool curriculum teaches 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, and problem solving. The open, caring, family-oriented atmosphere at Stratford School helps preschoolers feel safe – physically and emotionally – and nurtures the whole child, both mind and heart. Note: Part-time programming is subject to availabilty.
Also offers: Mandarin Bilingual, Pre-Kindergarten, Summer Camp
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Infant center at Bright Horizons, a large backup daycare center in Palo Alto Square. Program provides close supervision of babies in an environment filled with music, books, sensory toys, and soft...
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Daycare providing daily hugs and healthy meals. Quality care in a loving nurturing environment.
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Academic-based preschool program providing opportunities for development. Self-help skills, social skill growth, language development and academics are promoted through age-appropriate curriculum....
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Mandarin immersion school providing a multicultural learning environment for preschool, pre-kindergarten, and transitional kindergarten students. Facility strives to build language proficiency as well...
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Childcare and early learning services are provided to children in home-based environment. Numbers, letters, colors and shapes are introduced in preparation for Kindergarten and beyond. Science is...
Speaks Spanish
Large daycare center and preschool near Briones Park. Curriculum includes language, math, science, music, and art; program fosters social and intellectual growth and readiness for kindergarten.
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Play-based daycare where children learn and play in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. Hands-on learning is encouraged through various games, toys, art, music, and more. Indoor and outdoor play spaces...
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Preschool located in Palo Alto. This preschool offers an innovative curriculum that involves science experiments, creative projects, and singing and dancing.
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Small, nurturing preschool program near the Stanford University campus. Curriculum includes art, music and movement, outdoor play, dramatic play, and circle time; program fosters self-confidence and...
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After school child care programs located in Palo Alto. They accept children from grades K-5th, and offer a transportation discount which you can find more information on on their website.
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Well rounded Preschool program that educates not only on the core subjects but incorporates computers and different software for maximum growth and development. Imagination and creativity also...
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*CAMP DATES: June 8 - July 17* Get a taste of collegiate life this summer in Silicon Valley! Our STEM camps strike the perfect balance between skill development and summer fun. Your child will work...
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After school program located in Palo Alto that serves students in grades K-5th. There is a transportation discount available and you can find more information about it on the website.
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An after school care facility that accepts children grades K-5th located in Palo Alto. This program goes from the time children get out of school until 6:00 pm at the latest.
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Our mission is to provide an outstanding education so that all students are motivated to reach their full academic potential; inspired to value inclusion and diverse perspectives; equipped to use...
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FAQs About Palo Alto Child Care
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How many child care providers are in Palo Alto?
- Based on Winnie data collection, there are 140 child care providers in Palo Alto and 43 of these child care providers offer part time care.
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How much does child care cost in Palo Alto?
- According to provider data, $2395 is the average monthly price for full time child care in Palo Alto.
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Do child care providers in Palo Alto speak multiple languages?
- Yes, there are approximately 22 child care providers in Palo Alto that are multilingual, offering care in at least two different languages.
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What are the most common languages offered by Palo Alto childcare providers?
- The 5 most common languages spoken by child care providers in Palo Alto are Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), French, Hebrew and Persian.
More About Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto offers a variety of attractions and events for families. Children will enjoy the exhibits and events at Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo and The Museum of American Heritage. Magical Bridge Playground is popular park with several play structures for all ages. Family Fun Days take place throughout the year at the Foster and Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden with the annual Parent's Place Family Fun Day taking place every April.