Orchard Valley Learning Center

PARENTS BEWARE! Please please read this before making a decision on sending your child here. Please read to the end to hear about the most egregious thing they did, but I will start with the issues I encountered while my son was enrolled. 1. In 18 months my 4year old son had 4 different teachers. This place is a constant rotation of teachers which makes it difficult for a child to have to constantly get used to new routines. 2. He was also moved to 3 different classrooms in 9 months. Do you know how difficult that is for a 4 year old to make friends and then keep ripping them away and forcing them to establish new relationships 3. My son was bitten 3 times by another student in a 9-month period, and while I understand there is a policy of not identifying the child, they wouldn’t even confirm the child was removed from the classroom or that there was any process to ensure it didn’t happen again. Only after the 3rd time I threatened to file a police report because 3 times is ridiculous did they agree to remove the child from the classroom. 4. The “teachers” don’t arrive till 9am and they leave around 3pm. When you factor in an hour lunch, outdoor play and two-hour nap, the actual instruction time for your child is roughly 3 hours a day. 5. Since the teachers aren’t there when you drop off or pick up your child it is almost impossible to get regular updates on your child’s progress except for the once a semester parent/teacher meeting. 6. For 5 days a week at the facility you will pay nearly $2,000 month, which really just makes it an overpriced daycare. 7. If you want your child to participate in any activity beyond the playground, be prepared to add an additional $250 month so your child can learn to play basketball, soccer, or dance. Now for the absolute worst and completely ugly actions of this facility. I am a single father, raising my son full-time completely on my own. I am extremely involved in his life, and was also extremely involved in various volunteer opportunities at the school. I was no stranger to the teachers and staff. Exactly 24 hours after I gave the facility notice I was taking my son out of the school; they called Child Protective Services and made an accusation regarding a single red mark on my son’s head. A red mark! Not a bruise, black eye, cut, scratch or anything else. If you have a 4-year-old boy you know that they are quite active and red marks and bruises are almost a daily occurrence. They have known me for 18 months and watched how loving and dedicated father I was, and just 24 hours after I withdraw my son a phone call is made to CPS? Pretty suspicious! Thankfully, the CPS representative was more then reasonable and even called the complaint and lack of supporting documentation, “one of the most unsupported and absurd complaints I have received.” Nonetheless, I welcomed CPS to my house and 15 minutes after meeting my son and seeing the loving home he is in, they closed the case. Thankfully, she also planned to file a report with her supervisor to investigate the facility once I told her that this facility suspiciously filed the complaint one day after I withdrew my son. This review is my own opinion and may not be the experience of other parents but I believe it is my civic duty to share my experience as I would hate to see another family go through what I went through. If you encountered a same or similar situation in any of the facilities owned by this family please reach out to me as my attorney has discovered several other families with a similar experiences upon withdrawing their child and a class-action lawsuit is eminent.

We have had our kids here for the past 2 years and have been so thrilled with our switch from Goddard. The teachers and staff are all amazing, they provide healthy food for the kids, and their events are always so well-organized and fun! Our kids have learned so much and truly enjoy going to school. I can't say enough good things about OVLC, our experience has been wonderful!

Orchard valley is absolutely the best! We have had both of our sons there for the last 3 years and have nothing but incredible things to say. Everyone from the front office to the teachers in the classrooms go above and beyond to show they care about your child. I have never once second guessed sending my boys here and love that we have a trusted place and home in OVLC.

I have been bringing my son here for the last few years and he loves it. They keep the kids very engaged and extremely busy throughout the year with lots of projects and indoor/outdoor activities and crafts. They are always involving the kids in different creative themes and have extra curricular sports options during the year. During the summer they have a pool and offer swim lessons that my son has really appreciated. During the pandemic they have remained open and only had 3-4 confirmed cases within one classroom very early on. They were able to quickly recognize and contain the situation to prevent further spread and class closures and have been able to keep everyone safe this entire time. One thing that I originally liked about the school when I toured was how clean everything was in comparison to other centers. I loved how they adhere to a rigorous cleaning schedule for everything including the carpet. Since the start of the pandemic this has only gotten better. We have decided to keep our son here another year as opposed to allowing him to go to kindergarten in the public schools where so much remains unknown and untested. This school is vigilant in following the recommendations of the health department and they have been successful in implementing safety since the beginning. They are committed to being open consistently for the kids and for essential workers which is a reliability that the public schools are unable and unwilling to offer. I would recommend this school to anyone who is looking for a place with high education standards and a commitment to keeping kids and staff healthy.

We had our 3 and then 4 year old son at Orchard Valley through the start of the pandemic, and I needed to get online and write a few reviews. He LOVED going to school, and the staff from top to bottom was absolutely incredible. We moved out of state, otherwise he and our daughter would have been there as long as we could keep them there. I am an elementary school teacher myself, and the love of learning and concepts they taught were incredible. Our son still talks about his OVLC teachers months later. We were always cautious about preschool centers, but wow did we have a great experience. Needed to share!