Grace Early Learning Center

Hours

Hours change without the licence record changing. Call before you plan a drop-off around these times.

What Maryland licensed

Licence type

Continuing - Full

Status on record

In Good Standing

First licensed

July 1, 1993

Licence runs through

November 30, 2027

Licensed infant places

12

Licensed school-age places

15

Schedule

Full Year

Family Network region

Howard County

Maryland publishes an infant band and a school-age band and no others, so these are not a total capacity and say nothing about toddler or preschool places.

Amenities and accessibility

Reported on the provider's Google business listing, not verified by the state.

How the reviews split

The 3.4 average comes from 18 Google reviews. An average hides whether opinion is consistent or divided, so the spread is shown too.

• 5 star10
• 4 star1
• 3 star0
• 2 star1
• 1 star6

From Google

Recent parent reviews

• ★★★★★

  Great friendly staff including Lindsay the Director, infant care and 4/5YO teachers. Ms Nae was amazing in infant care; always calm, caring, dependable, and greatly with our baby. We had all three of our children there for approximately one year and only left because of full-time elementary school and home availability for our 1 yo. Are the only critique we might have is the overall aesthetics of the place, but we were happy to live with an outdated aesthetic facility for the significantly cheaper tuition rates in comparison to other nearby larger chains. Grace helped us save money while still getting quality care for our 3 children.

  kyle kSep 8, 2023
• ★★★★★

  This is a fantastic preschool and daycare center! My son has absolutely loved going here. The teachers and facility are great and we couldn't be any happier. Highly recommend!

  Kumail ShirazieMay 15, 2023
• ★★★★★

  Started off great - our kid went here from age 2-4, but with the latest director, we coudln't get any responses to any of our inquiries about our childs learning progress. In addition, they seem to find any excuse to shut down the center - they even once closed because their phones went down! In addition to dismissing our concerns about our sons progress, they dismiss any sort of constructive feedback about the events they hold. Muffins for mom, Donuts for dad, all starting around 9/10am, which obviously doesn't work for working parents. If you have a stay at home spouse available to pick up the slack when they decide to close for no reason, this might be a good fit for you. If you are both working parents, stay away! In addition, if you compare pricing to other (OUTSTANDING!) daycares in the area, you get way more bang for your buck elsewhere - even the top rated #1 pre-school in america is cheaper, which is where we moved, and its FANTASTIC!

  Sean McCurdyDec 10, 2019
• ★★★★★

  Wow! I just heard one of the children in my child's school is getting kicked out of school b/c the parent wrote a bad review online. I didn't believe it at first, because that's bullying, but it was just confirmed by the parent this morning. I wanted to come online myself to see what was said to have been kicked out of school. I decided to leave my own comment about my families experience at Grace. It's true there have been numerous directors, a lot of turn over in staff and inconsistency over the past few years and it's still continuing. There were a few families and teachers that left once this current Director, started and the firing of the Two Year Old Room's teacher and assistant. There was a letter sent out last year about an infant's arm being broken while under the care of the school. I also heard about a child getting a black eye from an "accident" with a teacher a few months ago. I'll be honest, a lot of what I see in these reviews are true - the daycare isn't the best. You can hope to like a teacher and hope they stick around. The tenure of the teachers and assistants of this school is short. The current Director is not personable like Ms. Jenn and Ms. Amy were. We often saw them visiting classes and talking to parents and children - I've never seen Ms. Sharon do that so I can't really comment on her. I've walked in the am and have seen lots of children together in one room, not enough staff, kids fighting/crying and at one point, one of the teachers yelling to the top of her lungs at one child. The assistants in the afternoon don't seem to like children very much, are always sitting, talking among themselves. One time I went to pick up my child and the assistant was sitting on the bench outside with her eyes glued to her phone. Didn't even try to hide that she was on her phone or put it away when she saw me or anything. We are still at Grace due to price and location, but with them trying to increase tuition rates in June, not sure we'll stay. I called KinderCare up the street from Grace and with the increase, they'll be the same in cost and KinderCare has more tenured staff, better curriculum, and seems to be a happier environment all around. I don't know, it's been nothing but constant changes at Grace and they can't seem to figure it out. To me, if teachers are frequently leaving, that's a sign.

  Tina FerreyraFeb 15, 2019
• ★★★★★

  This school took a disappointing dive in the past year. I was trying to be patient during management change but they just didn’t cut it. Very disorganized, staff seems overwhelmed and it’s easy to see why. They have DOUBLED their rates for next year and for the life of me I can’t figure out how they are rationalizing this unless they have hired Mary Poppins. They claim it’s because of the curriculum but the same curriculum is implemented much more effectively elsewhere. There is undo stress put on the teachers and it effects the children. The classes are too big. I was told they would only be 15 kids per preschool class. Last year we ended with 23. This year we were at 20-22 when I pulled my son out. Do not waste your hard earned money here or your child’s precious time. The one teach there that I trust has plans to retire soon.

  Iris CalabreseJan 29, 2019
• ★★★★★

  A friend who worked here was discriminated. Most classrooms were out of ratio and teachers do not know how manage their rooms. This place is not the best.

  Amy SchwartzJan 26, 2019

Reviews shown verbatim as published on Google Maps.