great school teaching the kids advanced work earlyer than the suggested grade to learn and making…read morethe kids master it .provieds lunch and p.e ,music ,spanish, and yoga . great school ,highly reccomended great staff .

We enrolled our son in this school during the pademic when his first year of public school went…read morevirtual. Since he loved attending his old Montessori school up to kindergarten, we wanted to find a Montessori school that offers an elementary program. Among the three options that we had in the area, we ended up choosing MSoFx, which turned out to be a wise choice. Above all else, my son simply loves his school and friends. The school offers the specials, including conversational Spanish, PE, and music lessons twice a week. My son started playing violin last fall from his music class, and I cannot believe how advanced he is in just one year. We also love the fact that they have a full-time chef who prepares lunch daily for children. The best part of his first year at MSoFx was the end-of-the year concert and play! It was also unique that they offered NNAT and CogAT assessments administered by George Mason University. All his teachers and staff have been amazingly kind and understanding throughout the year. Although we had looked for a temporary school to attend through the pandemic, we did not hesitate to enroll our son again this year. We are grateful that my son is thriving and happy in this school and much look forward to another great year.

Absolute worst place for my grandson to learn. In my opinion Guidepost Chantilly was very…read moredysfunctional at many levels. My grandson was tested at Guidepost and entered first grade for the 2024 through 2025 school year. The mixed level classroom had about twenty-two students, ranging between 1st and 5th grade. In the beginning of the school year there were two teachers, one of which clearly was not acclimated to talking to younger students. Her fast cadence of speaking was incoherent, and level of explanation was not focused at a first grade level. It took six months of meeting with the Guidepost corporate administrator for action to be taken regarding the teacher. The remaining teacher was very in tune with her students and tried her best to teach to the various level of the group. Unfortunately, there were several students in the class with major behavioral problems. Two of the students displayed physical bullying to the other students. My grandson was hit in the head with a stick, breaking the skin. This was inside of the classroom. One student yelled for a significant part of the day, which caused so much disruption my grandson could not focus on the educational tasks. Much of the teacher's day was spent trying to maintain order in the classroom. This was again discussed with the Guidepost Chantilly corporate administrator. The administrator always had an excuse for the incidents and behaviors, with no concrete corrective action taken. When I came at 5:30 to pick up my grandson, I could see a great deal of disarray in his classroom. Papers were out of place and on the floor. Books, educational materials and student belongings were very out of order along with several other things. The classroom was clearly not clean, with visible garbage around the floor. How could this be a functional classroom? One of the bullies in the class was a student of a Guidepost Chantilly teacher. After two months of the aggressive and bullying behavior toward my grandson, I addressed the parent myself. I did this in a very non-aggressive way. The parent put her hand in my face and stated, "I don't want to talk about it" and walked away. The Guidepost administrator admonished me for going directly to the parent. Other parents expressed that this is a trend with this school, allowing their teachers to bring their children and not addressing their students' aggressive and disruptive behaviors. Everyone should be allowed to raise their children how they see fit, but when it impacts other children's safety and ability to learn the problems must be addressed. During the time at Guidepost, we had two parent teacher conferences. At the second conference my grandson was evaluated to be one step past the first conference. We were told he was falling behind and could have a learning disability. The conclusion was that my grandson had learned very little in eight months. We were paying a private school tuition, but he was not getting the education for which we were paying. After the evaluation in late April 2025, we removed my grandson from Guidepost Chantilly and placed him in public school. He was tested when he entered public school at the mid-kindergarten level. In public school, he came home smiling every day. He said no one was yelling all day and he was able to work on his schoolwork. He was not worried about anyone hitting him. This structured environment allowed him to excel for the remainder of the year. He was voted most helpful of his peers and most improved student at the year ceremony. These two awards were from a total of four kindergarten classes, or eighty-five students. He is now in first grade, and we just had the first parent teacher conference. He is excelling in math doing second grade work and is at level for reading and comprehension. We did a tremendous amount of work with him over the summer to bring him to grade level. It is my opinion that if he had a proper education at Guidepost Chantilly, he would not have been behind in his education and not labeled as learning disabled. In my opinion, Guidepost Chantilly wasted eight months of his educational life which is unacceptable. It is my opinion that Guidepost Chantilly is a disgrace and should not have the ability to be called an educational school. Perhaps this is why the corporate parent of Guidepost declared bankruptcy in the summer of 2025. Lack of student enrollment and poor educational ability. Of course, this is only my opinion, I did not waste my time to do the bankruptcy research because I had actual firsthand knowledge.

Our two daughters, 2.5 and 4 years old, attend Guidepost Montessori Chantilly. From the first time…read morethat I reached out to the Assistant Head of School to find out more about their programs, we felt like part of the Guidepost Family. When we needed help with the Financial Aid process, we had assistance the whole way. Couldn't have been more grateful. Our children have flourished under this Accredited Montessori School with Trained Guides. We could not feel more comfortable that no question seems silly or bothersome by the Guides or Administration. As I said, we truly feel welcome and a member of the Guidepost Family. Also, the way they have handled the COVID-19 pandemic has been incredible. Feeling our children are in safe hands at times like these is paramount and we do at Guidepost. Cannot recommend highly enough! We are so blessed to be here.

I absolutely love Mrs. Dimple. She's is beyond amazing. Her compassion, knowledge and love for what…read moreshe does makes dropping off your child for the first time so comforting. My youngest started at about 3 months and is almost 3. He loves going to school, he used to cry when it was time to go home. The staff is amazing, very helpful and they seem happy to be there, which reflects the way they interact with the kids. As a working mom the I love the pictures and the updates throughout the day. I also love the flexibility with the hours and honestly the price is amazing for the hours. I highly recommend Freedom Montessori.

Our child attended pre-school through kindergarten at Freedom Montessori and our daughter loved it…read more She "graduated" as a strong reader with excellent math skills. Although she attended first grade and now second grade in a public elementary school, we have had our daughter attend summer camps at Freedom Montessori. Now in these odd "COVID19 times" (writing this review in February 2021), our daughter attends Freedom Montessori three days a week to attend her online elementary school. We love it - our daughter is thrilled by it. Dimple and the staff are amazing and we feel like they are part of our lives and have had an amazing impact on our daughter. I highly recommend Freedom Montessori to anyone interested.

Wonderful, caring teachers and staff and excellent communication with parents! Extremely clean…read morefacility and fun learning environment. Love the spacious rooms, natural sunlight throughout the building, and playgrounds galore. My child has thrived here for ~2 years now. I'm always amazed by the creative activities and crafts that the teachers come up with - from fun character days (Bluey day was a recent hit!) to regular sensory learning activities. Highly recommend!

Beautiful facilities and amazing teachers! We toured it just out of curiosity because of the…read morebrand-new facilities and wanting a daycare closer to home. After speaking to Dr. Wendy and seeing the safe and clean facilities (and 5 playgrounds!) we decided to enroll our toddler and infant. We are so happy to be part of the Centerpointe Academy family!

We adore MCS! Our daughter just graduated kindergarten there after three years and our son has just…read morestarted his three-year journey. It's the perfect size for starting education, and really feels like a family. After three years, I'm still always shocked by how calm and serene the classroom is, even with 18 kids ages three to five in there! The director is warm and enthusiastic. Our teacher (Mrs. Kashif) is so lovely and we couldn't have asked for a better start to our kids' education.

We've loved our time at MCS. We started in the toddler room and then moved up to the primary…read moreclassroom. The teachers are very thoughtful about transitioning the children and moving at their own pace. The outdoor space is lovely, and allows for planting flowers around earth day, releasing butterflies, raking leaves, and for fun outdoor lessons in addition to playtime. The daytime work consists of practical life, language, math, art, science and geography activities. If your child stays for aftercare there are lots of arts and crafts. There is usually a soccer program you can opt into in both fall and spring, and other special classes as well. I've seen the students become very attached to the teachers, enjoying their days and not wanting to leave early. It's a welcoming and kind environment.

From Hero to Zero. Our daughter attended this school July…read more2020 - Nov 2021, and unfortunately what started as a great experience and a happy child running to school each morning became a place looking to save money at the expense of anything and most importantly children's physical and emotional well-being. We've been patient and understanding over the past few months with the school's shortcomings, hoping these were all temporary issues, but came to believe that with the current management there is not much hope for the situation to improve. My husband gave this school 5 stars rating last year on Google - a year later we no longer feel this way. Between February 2021 and October 2021 I can name 10 people (staff) who quit. Even though high turnover is pretty typical for this industry, it is definitely a warning sign when people quit in double digits in less than a year's time frame. At some point management shared that they had a hard time finding people to fill open positions as "no one was coming to interviews''. Check the reviews from ex-employees on Indeed.com, you will understand why. The unanimity of the reviews and the issues specified is astounding. When we joined, the school was proudly advertising having their own chef on premises who was preparing fresh nutritious meals. Fast forward to summer/fall 2021 - there is no more chef, there is frozen cheap food from outside supplier. At some point our daughter started having stomach issues and we attribute it to the poor quality of food she was getting throughout the day. The epitome of how school was saving on food was when they denied my daughter her 5pm snack when I picked her up at 4:45 citing concerns for staff and students health as a reason. How handing out a prepackaged bag of crackers to kids on their way out before 5pm would be a health concern to anyone is still a mystery to us. Not to mention, that the weekly tuition included 5 meals a day, and handing the prepackaged snack does not require much extra work for anyone and was never an issue until recently. Last year kids were engaged in all sorts of activities - scientific experiments, gardening, cookie elections on Election Day, Halloween events for families. It surely felt like the school was putting effort into making their students' time meaningful, exciting and engaging. Over the past few months this all went to zero too. Not a single day of waterplay during hot summer days - the kids and the teachers were just stuck inside. Nothing for Halloween or any other holiday they put on the monthly calendar. Their daily activities started being repetitive and primitive. Lately whenever we asked our daughter about her day at preschool she would mostly share with us who was hurt during the day and who needed ice because they were hurt. We reached out to the teachers who left and asked their experience and their opinion on the situation. After what was shared with us, it becomes quite understandable why school stopped being a pleasurable experience for our daughter on all counts. If the teachers are overworked, overstressed, underpaid, not given an opportunity to take bio breaks when needed, not provided with materials to be able to do fun educational activities with the kids, how do you expect the teachers to provide high quality education? As great as they were, our teachers looked exhausted by the time we dropped our daughter off in the morning - how can you expect them to go above and beyond when they are constantly stressed and tired? We spoke with other families about their experience and heard more stories, including using timeout as a discipline method and management not communicating transmittable diseases going in other classes. We are very grateful to the teachers that our daughter had during her time at Primrose Reston, but we are very sad and disappointed in the management and how they made once great school the one that not just employees, but families started fleeing.

We paid a premium for childhood development and in the two years we've been there it has become a…read morepoorly managed daycare. We had no other choice but to abruptly pull our kids out in fear for their mental health, lack of classroom structure and control, lack of communication from management and overall a careless, heartless environment. After a slew of red flags I connected the dots and believe the mental health, and potentially physical health, of the children in this school are not prioritized. Until the current management is no longer associated with this business I would not trust my children going here. The teachers are the only opportunity you have for your child to have a good experience, and all of them end up leaving. Just look at Indeed.com reviews. The owner uses Covid as an excuse for everything when really it is just very poor management. After months of vague or unresponsive communication regarding curriculum and class structure I started digging. Through the children in the classroom and other parents I learned that my daughters teacher allowed several girls to call themselves and each other "bad girls". The teacher confirmed she knew this was going on to my face the day we pulled them out. I also learned there is a table dedicated to timeout, when ownership states time out is never used to discipline. Over a six week period I asked my daughter the same questions on her experience at school; "Who did you play with, who was kind to you, who were you kind to...", and began seeing concerning patterns of negative self talk, resistance to answer and anger. I talked to other parents and several were also having other issues ie. their younger kids being covered in pee at pick up repetitively, lack of kindness to their upset daughter, teachers being too rough, etc. The straw that broke my back was the night my usually sweet, upbeat almost 4 year old told me on the brink of tears that she was a "bad girl". This is where my one-star review begins. Primrose teachers can not babysit for kids that attend the school. I started asking teachers that had left about their experiences and why they left and OMG I CANT EVEN TELL YOU how mad I became. Teachers don't have enough material to perform the activities planned for each day, much less have necessary training from leadership. Then I learned MORE about the lack of support from leadership ie. not coming when they needed to go to the bathroom, editing the daily reports and incident reports, I could go on and on. The teachers are over worked, under paid and stressed. A year ago the school highlighted their onsite chef and fresh food prepared daily. Now the food is whatever is cheapest for the business. Everything feels like that. Cheap cheap cheap. They stopped putting effort into keeping this school what it used to be. They did nothing for 2021 graduation or Halloween. Since 2020 they have done nothing to help parents meet each other or connect. The owner sits in their office with no mask, with their dog, and requires anyone three and older to wear a mask for the entire day. We are so grateful to have had good teachers while we did, they shielded us from all of this...but once we were no longer with them (Sept 2021) it got bad QUICKLY. Oh, and it's way over priced. $3,000 a month for two kids? Now I'm pivoting work to homeschool till we find a better spot for my amazing kids. This school is NOT what Primrose corporate says it offers. There a million other schools in our area, keep looking!!!

Can't imagine a better preschool experience. My 2-year old son started with sensory issues and has…read morelearned to love a little mess and can tell you all about growing vegetables and going for nature hikes!

As a parent with one daughter who's already graduated from The Eastern Ridge School and another in…read moreher second year, I can honestly say this place has been amazing for our family. The school's approach is all about letting kids explore, ask questions, and learn through hands-on experiences--most of it outdoors, which our girls have absolutely loved. It's thoughtful, nurturing, and really focuses on helping each child grow in their own unique way. We feel so lucky to have found it.

Policy and payment warning! If you're considering Clifton Children's Academy, please pay very close…read moreattention to all paperwork. While you'll not find all of the payment information in one place, you'll soon find that you're doling out a lot of money up front that will be returned to you under NO circumstances. First, you'll pay a "registration fee." Then, you'll pay "reserve tuition," which is equivalent to a full month's payment, for which you will receive NO services. And if you later decide to use a fewer number of days, this fee will NOT be reduced. THEN, also up front, you will pay 20-60% of the full year's tuition. Now, you may think that that payment is not an additional fee because the 20% supposedly covers the last two months of the 10-month school year. HOWEVER, in the fine print, there is the stipulation that these funds will be forfeited if the school determines that there are "behavioral" issues with your child. I have not met many behaviorally perfect 3-5 year old children! While I am not saying that this school will expel your child and keep your money on false pretenses, the payment policies are a perfect setup for that sort of thing to happen. It could happen that you pay over 70% of a full YEAR'S tuition (not a small amount, in my world) and forfeit it with very little service given. If you have that kind of money to spare, are confident that your child will have no "behavioral" problems, and feel that this school will be able to provide a competent educational experience for your child, then proceed with enrollment! Otherwise, caveat emptor! I have never encountered this sort of payment policy trap anywhere else, but I have learned the expensive lesson to watch for it in the future.

Clifton Children's Academy is the perfect fit for our family. They offer the flexibility of a…read morechild care program, but with the atmosphere of a small, homey preschool. The gorgeous campus, excellent staff and enriching program are what attracted us to CCA... so much so, that not only are we enrolling our son in the preschool, but I will also be joining the staff!