North Coast Church Preschool

After touring and researching preschools throughout Oceanside, Carlsbad, Fallbrook and Vista, we landed on North Coast.
The school itself is new and clean. Each classroom is smartly decorated to give the children the feeling of being in a home environment. The art program is beyond amazing. The teachers truly care and love the children and go out of their way to get to know every child no matter which classroom they’re in. My son’s teacher recently came over for a home visit, which she offers every family. We talked about my son’s strengths and weaknesses (he’s bossy, no surprise there) and got to know each other outside the daily drop off and pick up conversations. During our home visit, my son grabbed a flower out of a vase I had on the dining room table and gave it to his teacher. My heart melted because it was that moment I realized that there’s now another woman in his life. I’m happy to share this top spot with his teacher. She’s pretty amazing.
Overall, we’re so glad we chose North Coast Preschool. The program is expensive, but worth every penny.

After only being there a few weeks my child was asked to not return, the reason given was incredibly weird. I observed some of the classes to see what was going on and found that there is an extreme lack of supervision. Not all children are treated fairly. Their is not structure to the classes and their teaching method they say they go on is more like a paid art class only. Within one week of us pulling our child out, a family friend pulled their child out for misconduct of the teacher. Within a few weeks of that another friend pulled their child out because the «curriculum» is subpar for the age and is in no way challenging. I would not recommend this preschool for any parent who wants their child in a learning and growing environment, at most it is an expensive babysitting service. My child’s safety and education come first in my eyes, but at that school it was whatever’s was convenient for the teacher and the parents paying the most money.

So, a while back we were looking for a new preschool for our (then) 2 year old son. We have been through that a few times, going from being with a friend to a home daycare, from a home daycare to one that was 26 minutes away. It was a great place to be, but our son ended up needing smaller class sizes, which is definitely what was delivered.
Normally I don’t go in for lists, but I figure this could really use one:
— small class sizes and great ratios: NCCP has smaller ratios for their classes than any other preschool I’ve seen. If they look to exceed that ratio by even one student, they bring in another teacher to fill in the gap.
— great attention to the kids throughout the day — they make sure all of the children get the attention they need. Our son isn’t a great napped, but they make sure he doesn’t have to just lay there alone, and there’s someone there to keep him company while he rests.
— there is a hands-​on approach throughout the preschool, with even the directors of the program getting involved every day. My son runs in through the doors every morning looking for miss Cheryl or Miss Marcia to give them great big hugs.
Ok, there’s more that I could say, but, well, I have other things to do today :) but one thing is for sure, any place that my son looks forward to going to every day, any place that puts up pictures regularly taken throughout the day so parents can feel more involved, is a great place to be.