Emeline Preschool Center

My granddaughter will be completing her year in Kindergarten this spring. The best way for me to describe this year is that she has embraced her Kindergarten experience! We had such anxiety thinking about the huge adjustment she faced. She had her graduation ceremony from Emeline on Saturday, then moved to San Jose on Sunday and started her new school year on Monday.
How wonderful to see her happy, eager, inquiring and loving to learn. I attribute much of this to her experience at Emeline Preschool Center. She entered at 2 years and went through all three programs with the loving, conscious and caring teachers and the loving + no-​nonsense Director Lara!
We are also a Pacific Islander/​Latino family so we were pleased our granddaughter had at that time, such a diversity of friends & families to learn & grow with. Thank you Emeline Preschool for providing the foundation from which our granddaughter will benefit for the rest of her life!

Emeline was a great experience for my daughter & our family. Lara, the director, is awesome… along with the teachers. I am so grateful for them and the facility. I recommend them to anyone looking for preschool care in the area. The only reason we left was because my daughter started Kinder. 5 stars & lots of love to this school!

Emeline Preschool has been a wonderful place for our daughter to grow and learn. It truly is a sweet little community. The teachers are the most kind, patient, compassionate women I have ever met. The director, a mother of two small children, is very easy to talk with and so dedicated (she even comes in on the weekends to let the chickens out). I can not recommend Emeline Preschool enough.

Emeline is gem in Santa Cruz. Both of my son and daughter have attended and flourished there. With three classrooms and 23 kids, it was the perfect size for our kids to have a lot of social interaction but also receive the attention and love they deserve. The teachers and the director are amazing– they are patient, experienced, kind and loving, and several of the teachers have been there for many years. Their philosophy of learning through play has taught my children all of the important and appropriate social and emotional skills and self-​confidence for their next steps. Lastly, the sliding fee scale and affordability of Emeline also makes it one of the more diverse centers in Santa Cruz, an aspect that my family highly valued. We couldn’t have found a better place to support our family!

This is an amazing place– my older daughter finished there and my younger daughter still attends. I visited over ten schools in the Santa Cruz area before choosing Emeline, many much pricier, and none matched Emeline in the feeling of warmth and caring I immediately felt when I walked through the door. The teachers here really love the kids, and the kids love them. It is diverse (a rarity in Santa Cruz), has a huge outdoor playspace with a garden and chickens wandering around, and a wonderful community feeling.
Emeline is the best.