The Goddard School

The Goddard School in Strawbridge has been nothing but fantastic for my children. My older child was more than prepared for first grade and is excelling in every subject. My younger child, who has also been at Goddard since she was an infant, loves going to «her Goddard school» every day. If you are looking for a supportive, family atmosphere that nurtures the whole child, academically as well as socially, then this school is it!

Not military friendly esp if your hours change and you need a refund due to the fact you don’t need your child watched anymore because you work weekend nights and they don’t offer weekends.
The owners are very knowledgeable and will talk down to you and repeat themselves till they get their way. Also very greedy with money esp when a military member cannot control their work hours. In other words I’m out more than a thousand dollars and my son hasn’t even stayed there a day yet.

My infant daughter has been enrolled here since she was 12 weeks old. The staff and teachers in the infant room are wonderful. I love that they spend one-​on-​one time with her each day. The crafts, activities and songs they teach them each day are the highlight of my day to read about each evening. They recently switched to an email daily report — with a picture attached. I have it forward to her grandparents that live far away and they enjoy reading about her day too.

Let me start with the bad… tuition and no meals provided.
BUT…if you’re going to pay to have someone else watch your child… I don’t believe you can put a price on it… especially for the quality provided. They do provide two snacks a day but you’ll have to pack your child’s lunch. BUT… they will heat up the food for you.
We had our daughter enrolled from when she was a 1YO to 2.5YO. Then we moved and came back… for her to enroll for the second half of her kindergarten year. I had corresponded with the local public elementary school and was VERY unimpressed by the principal’s seeming uninterest in my daughter and to the fact that we were a military family moving mid-​school year. So… back to Goddard where we knew the quality was superb and the very low child to teacher ratio reigned supreme.
Was it worth it? Heck ya! Our daughter is currently in public school but the few months she was at Goddard she learned things so quickly and I never feared that she would be behind… not even for a second.
Yes, it’s pricey… but we definitely wanted to best for our daughter. We didn’t check out The Wave Church’s child care program until recently (pre-​K for our son)…but their curriculum seems on par with Goddard and cheaper. But, Goddard is closer to our home and still… we don’t regret it at all and would highly recommend it to anyone. The facilities are clean. The teachers are great and truly listen to you. Administrative staff is wonderful. Quality, quality, quality. You can’t expect less from this award-​winning school.