Cal Ivy Prep

My baby girl started at Cal Ivy in November of 2021 at 3 months. She is now almost 4 years old and still attends and is thriving. My son started at Cal Ivy as well in July 2023 also at 3 months and he is now 2 years old and also thriving. The staff, teachers and management are outstanding. They always keep you in the know. They update you daily on the app used to communicate and check in- procare. My kids are so happy to go to daycare everyday. The teachers are so knowledgeable, educated in their field and have treated my babies like their own. I am forever grateful to Cal Ivy for helping me raise my children into respectable, intelligent, and caring individuals. It is well worth the money in knowing your children are well taken care of and loved. I would highly recommend Cal Ivy Prep.

Started sending my Lyndon here roughly 18 months ago, by which point he had mastered English and French and was conversationally fluent in German. I had wanted a place to send our little gooner to further his intellectual development/spiritual edification while I was shackled to the millstone, as my wife (a doctor, either a neurosurgeon or a podiatrist I believe) had recently issued an ultimatum vis-a-vis my persisting lack of employment since March of 2011. For this reason, I was freshly in need of a service to superintend our son, as I would no longer be at home in my study, nose likely buried in my Milton; rather, I would be shoulder to shoulder with some hooligan or other at one of the local eateries, chafing my knuckles for a pittance every day. Coming as I do from a long line of Harvardians, this seemed the natural choice. After a month, they had him reading Latin. After two months, he had read Virgil in the original. At the end of the first year, he had read the complete works of all the major tragedians (also in the original Greek and Latin, of course) and was composing in Latin, both poetry and prose. Needless to say, I am overjoyed. Would highly recommend this to anyone with a child as precocious as our Lyndon, and will likely be sending our second child Lysistrata to join him once she is born.

My grandson has been bit twice within a 3wk period..after the 1st bite you would think they would pay closer attention to the kids. I stayed in one day for about 2-3 hrs & I had to tell one of the teachers hey that kid is pulling that little girl hair. Why are they not focus on their job, which is to watch the children. We are looking for a new daycare provider, sucks for my grandchild that he will have to adapt to a new surrounding

My son started here at 18 months in the Transition room. I was terrified because he had been at home with me since the day he was born with maybe only once or twice with grandma. i wanted to add this review because it was what I was looking for in deciding on a daycare. I had already put a deposit down on another daycare when I found this one. It was recommended to me by someone in my mom group and I am so glad I found it. His vocabulary has grown immensely and he even knows a couple words in sign language. I have a ton of art work and, much to my motherly dismay, he doesn't even look back when I drop him off now. A child development professor told me great things about this place and, she was right, I have no complaints about this daycare. They call whenever anything happens. I love seeing him so happy. I hope this helps someone else looking for a day care.

You have to give at least 1 star to have my review posted. I would not give this place any stars, but want to share my disappointment with everyone, so that people know what really takes place. My experience in the Early Transition program for 10-15 month old children was HORRIFIC!! My experience with the director was awful. The teacher's in the room did not interact or initiate conversation with the 6 children for two hours! During a bubble activity, there was no language used to explain to the children what a bubble was or looked like or felt like. It took two verbal cues from myself to say a poor young girl needed her nose wiped before any one got up and wiped it. The girl was eating her snot. When the kids would fall down and cry all the adults would do was say oh get it, there was no comforting from the adults. The poor kids were only offered table food regardless if they had teeth and could chew it up. They used tap water to make formula bottles. The kids had to lay on the ground on a very thin mat to nap. The adults allowed a child to help pat another child on the butt to go to sleep. There was music on in the classroom, which had no meaning to the young children. One teacher was busy trying to cut out a craft for the children, who were too young to do it. They never offered the children water, although it was very hot in the room. The children were clearly not getting the nutrition they need. It was very painful and disappointing to sit and watch. When I addressed these concerns with the director, she attempted many techniques to smooth things over, such as intimidation (she said you and the teachers can banter things out), then switched to saying she would address it with the teachers and not tell them which parent it was, and then finally resorted to asking if my child would be attending. The behavior i observed in the classroom did not match the Mission Statement. Thank goodness my child only spent a total of 4 hours alone there, which was enough, because when I walked in my child was in tears due to falling as one teacher was sitting on her butt on the ground and the other, can you guess, was doing crafts by herself. I would not recommend this place to anyone. They do not provide a language rich environment and do not provide a high level of quality care.