Best Daycares in San Francisco, CA - Updated September 2026

Infant Classroom

In the Infant program, our teachers provide your baby with all the cuddles and care they need, as well as opportunities to begin learning about the world around them. Our proprietary education program, Wonder of Learning™, celebrates your baby’s natural curiosity within the classroom environment and models how to explore safely. Nurturing teachers narrate your baby’s experiences to build a strong foundation in 21st century skills for problem solving and building relationships.

Twos Classroom

In the Twos classroom, patient, caring teachers guide children through playful exploration. They help your little one navigate big emotions while providing hands-on learning experiences that nurture their innate curiosity. Your toddler is constantly learning new things about the world around them. At The Goddard School®, our team is here to work with your little one every day as they play, learn and gain the skills they need to prepare for preschool. Our Wonder of Learning™ education program will immerse your child in literacy, science, arts and math brought together in one activity for a more holistic—and fun—approach to learning.

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Our home-based preschool program offers a monthly curriculum and Montessori-inspired learning activities designed to support children’s social, emotional, and physical development. We provide a nurturing, engaging environment where children learn through hands-on exploration, creativity, and play.

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¡HolaKids! Spanish Immersion Preschool

Tippy Toe Toddlers Program

Our Toddler Program provides gentle, Montessori-based care that supports early development in language, movement, independence, and social-emotional skills. In a warm, nurturing space, toddlers explore, connect, and build confidence through hands-on learning and STEAM play. Potty training available!

Little Scholars Preschool Program

Our program helps children become confident, independent, and curious learners. With a rich Montessori and STEAM foundation, they develop strong academic skills, social-emotional growth, critical thinking, and a foundation for lifelong success—ready for school and beyond. Potty training available!

Infant Program

Mission Montessori’s infant program is uniquely designed to be homelike and nurturing, while also stimulating intellectual growth, confidence, and a desire to explore.

Toddler Program

Our teachers introduce good habits, encourage the use of words to express needs, and warmly guide children to do things for themselves throughout the course of the day.

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Our teachers create a stimulating, challenging environment that fosters self-competence and supports the child’s developing self-image. Because children need to experience success, we work within each child’s developmental ability. Children learn to clarify, organize, and extend their exploration.

Older Preschoolers

Our program consists of experiential learning designed specifically to enhance a child's social skills and growing autonomy. Field trips take our children into the surrounding forests. We delve further into social and emotional development with deepening friendships and collaborative play.

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Infant Care

Early Childhood Education And Development Is Critically Important. Our Staff Help Facilitate This Period Of Learning, And That’s What Separates Us From Traditional Child Care Facilities.

Toddler Care

We Build On The Momentum Of Your Toddler's Learning And Natural Curiosity And Help Them Learn At Their Own Pace. Our Staff Form Strong, Caring Relationships With Your Toddler And Guide Them Through Learning Experiences That Stimulate Their Development And Reinforce The Skills They’re Taught At Home.

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Nature Kidz Preschool

Created in 2019, Nature Kidz is San Francisco's premiere outdoor preschool based in The Presidio & Mountain Lake Park. From 8AM to 5PM, your child will have a "hands on" approach to learning, build strong friendships and be prepared to enter the City's top Kindergarten - 8th Grade schools!

Infant Care at Lana's Sunset Preschool

Infant care is available for babies as young as 7 weeks through 18 months in a small, home-based setting with attentive supervision, gentle routines, age-appropriate play, outdoor time when appropriate, and early social development. Care is based on each child’s needs, age, and availability.

Toddler Care at Lana's Sunset Preschool

Toddlers enjoy a small, home-based setting with age-appropriate play, outdoor time, meals, rest routines, early communication, social development, and hands-on learning. Activities support growing independence, confidence, and early learning skills.

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Step by Step CC & Preschool

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Rainbow Montessori of San Francisco

We are a Montessori preschool serving fourteen to sixteen children, 2.4-5.9. We offer a TK program as well.

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Smiley kids

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Erika's Daycare Infant Care

Loving, home-based infant care for babies 6 weeks to 24 months. Gentle care, soft music, and sensory play support early development. Responsive caregivers and regular photo updates ensure your baby feels safe, comforted, and thriving every day.

Erika's Daycare Toddler Care

Home-based toddler care for children 24 months to 4 years. We nurture learning through play — exploring early math, letters, and language with art, music, ballet, yoga, and cooking. Organic meals and daily activities spark creativity, confidence, and curiosity.

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Growing Minds Montessori Preschool

Growing Minds Montessori is a boutique bilingual Spanish-English preschool in Ingleside, San Francisco. Designed with intention, our prepared environment nurtures toddlers and preschoolers through an elevated Montessori experience. Discover it in action!

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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.

Preschool

This classroom provides an enriched and challenging hands-on curriculum that continues to ignite children’s inner curiosity enabling realistic learning opportunities through a solid routine that brings out their creativity. Exploring world geography, reading multicultural literature, researching world cultures, playing traditional games are just some of the ways we are building a community of global learners. Throughout the learning process, our students are able to watch their teacher model, or demonstrate, each step in the task or strategy multiple times. Such modeling and repetition allows students to understand both how to perform each step and why each step is important. In this phase our children are practicing by applying their knowledge and developing it further by learning about the world and its food, music and clothing. Children will get to explore and experience various cultures Around the World.

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Infant Care

A soothing bilingual haven focused on gentle transitions and secure bonding. To ensure premium, individualized care for our tiniest learners, enrollment is hosted as a specialized half-day schedule filled with sensory outdoor exposure and soft language immersion.

Toddler Care

A bright, active environment that transforms physical discovery into deep learning. Toddlers enjoy flexible half or full-day tracks, engaging in rich nature play, music, movement, and expressive storytelling to naturally build confidence and dual-language speech.

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Storyland Infant Care

Our Infant Care Program provides a warm and nurturing home environment where babies receive loving attention and gentle care. The program includes safe playtime, sensory activities, and consistent routines that support early development and help infants feel secure and comfortable.

Storyland Toddler Care

Our Toddler Program provides a warm and engaging environment where children learn through play, exploration, and daily routines. Daily story time helps children develop a love for books, while music and movement activities encourage creativity, confidence, and joyful learning.

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Jellyfish

Toddler Care: Children play via exploration, hand-on experience, and responsive care. Start to explore outdoor experience, art craft, and engage story-time.

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Flying Heron Childcare and Preschool

We offer a fun, high-quality, and nurturing childcare experience that combines play-based learning, nature exploration, and Chinese immersion with a rich, multilingual curriculum including English, Spanish, math, science, crafts, music, dance, and yoga.

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We do different activities, learn sign languages,

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Tiny Sprouts

Personalized and responsive care following home schedule for feeding napping and play. Activities include tummy time, sensory play, story time, music and outdoor playtime. Focus on consistent routines, social interaction, motor skills, and language development.

Sunshine Meadows

Daily activities designed to develop motor skills, socialization, language skills and cognitive development. Outdoor exploration with sensory stimulation including water and sand, gardening. Art, music, reading and free play are also offered. Routines promote self independence and self regulation.

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At YuTong's Daycare, our infant program provides a safe, comfortable, and loving environment where parents can trust us with their beloved babies while they are at work. We support early development through audio, social interactions, and repetitions catered to each baby's individual pace.

Toddler Care Program

At YuTong's Daycare, our toddler program enhances learning through play, interactions, book readings, and letter/number recognitions. Activities include drawing, coloring, and hand crafts to spark creativities. We also assist parents with potty training.

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Mandarin Daycare Program

Early language, practical life skills, art, songs & stories in Mandarin, cooperative play.

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Infant Care Program

Our Infant Program is designed to nurture and support your child’s growth and development in a warm, safe, and loving environment. Serving children from 6 weeks to 24 months, our program offers age-appropriate care that emphasizes sensory exploration and early developmental milestones.

Toddler Care Program (2+)

Our Toddler Program is designed to inspire a love of learning, creativity, and exploration in children ages 2 and up. We offer a well-rounded curriculum that balances early education with play, supporting your child’s social, emotional, and intellectual development in a fun, structured environment.