I absolutely love the First Friends program and staff! My daughter was 4 and needed a last minute…read morepreschool change so she started First Friends with one month left in the spring semester 2023. Everyone was so welcoming including the parents! Ms. Lois is truly amazing and I finally felt truly comfortable that my daughter was safe and in a nurturing environment compared to previous centers. The class size is small and I like the daily report at the end of the day. They make cute projects to make learning interesting. She enjoyed her one month so much there so I enrolled her in summer camps right after and she completed one full yr Fall '23 to Spring '24 until it was time for elementary school. She made so many friends and still keeps in touch with some even after entering a different school. She gained so much confidence and a great educational foundation that I believe helped her easily transition to kindergarten. I truly recommend this preschool!

I have a 2 year old son and a 1 year old daughter who has attended First Friends since she was 6…read moremonths old. It is great for kids, great for moms, and my husband loves how much the kids are flourishing there. I researched many Parent's day out programs in Houston, before deciding on First Friends and I am SO glad I did! My kids are so happy and thriving in this program. The teachers are nice, experienced, patient, and passionate about the kids. I love that I get a daily report on how their day was and the teachers are very communicative. The director is always at the door to greet parents at drop off and pick up and she is very involved. I am just so happy with this program. It is safe, clean, and my kids so happy every time they go, even more they are learning and gaining great social skills. They do so many activities that help with fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and they do so many crafts I'm amazed! From comments I have heard from other Mom friends it's seems that other MDO programs are more concerned with tuition than the kids and parents, that is not the case at First Friends. If you are looking for a MDO program check out First Friends you won't be disappointed! Your kids will love it and you will have peace of mind that they are safe and happy. All the other First Friends moms rave about the program and I have not heard anyone have any complaints! Most parents have had multiple kids go through the program. It is established and has a great reputation. I am so happy we found this school!

My son was in the infant room at Global Peace Leadership for almost a year and I couldn't have…read moreasked for better care. The teachers genuinely loved him. I'd get little updates and photos throughout the day, which made leaving him so much easier. Such a warm, family feel. Highly recommend!

Great place. Moved here from another nearby daycare a few years ago and it has been like night and…read moreday. The outside area in the back is amazing for the kids to play.

We couldn't be happier with our experience at Poe Cooperative Nursery School. Like many parents, I…read morewas nervous about sending my child into a new environment. Handing them off to someone else felt overwhelming, but Poe made that transition feel less like a leap and more like joining a big, supportive family. Being welcomed into the classroom and getting to be an active participant in my child's learning has been such a gift. Parent helper days are a highlight of our month. It's such a joy to get to know all of the children and see how my child interacts with their friends and teachers in a new setting. The teachers are warm, nurturing, and deeply engaged. This was my son's first time outside of our home and they were excellent at gently guiding him through a new environment. They somehow manage to balance calm structure with joyful chaos, and they treat each child like a whole person. The play-based curriculum encourages creativity, exploration, and a lot of wonderfully messy learning, which we absolutely love. We also love the emphasis on outdoor time. The kids are outside climbing, running, digging, and trying to smuggle home their new pet bugs. It has been amazing for their energy, imagination, and general happiness, although our car has become a bit of a mobile nature preserve. The classroom garden has given my son a love of a fresh picked green bean, although I am not sure he left any to be harvested! The sense of community at Poe is something truly special. Families genuinely get to know each other, and there is a shared feeling of we are in this together. We have loved all of the opportunities for us to engage either through family gatherings at the school, or the welcoming invitations to weekend meet ups and park play dates. We are incredibly grateful to be part of such a thoughtful, fun, and caring environment.

We knew we wanted to find a co-op preschool for our daughter but never imagined we'd find such an…read moreamazing school so close to home. Poe Co is an absolute GEM!!! The teachers are incredible, dedicated imaginative educators who pride themselves on making learning fun for their students and tailoring the curriculum to their students specific learning and developmental needs. The small class size really allows for the time and attention needed to help the kids be able to learn together while allowing for customized teaching moments to make sure they have the skills and knowledge they'll need to step into elementary school. My daughter has grown socially and learned so much this year, I can't say enough good things about this preschool. They bake from scratch, garden, splash in the rain, ride trikes, play in the mud kitchen, build crazy block structures and play in the pretend zone daily. This school is a dream.

I cannot say enough about how great this place is! My son thrived and we enjoyed the whole journey…read moretogether as a family with his teachers. They are professional and compationate. Ms.Laura goes to the moon and back to make things special. If you live next to this daycare, enroll your kids asap, they will be in very good hands

We join CHMS in August 2020 when my son was 7 months old and now have 2 kids that go there. We have…read morefound so much to be thankful for with the team here, the kids are well cared for and loved, my son learns so much and demonstrates it at home and while hes playing with others regularly. The teachers and staff go out of their way to ensure the kids have a great time and to keep the parents informed. We have great peace of mind knowing the care and educational foundation our kids are receiving here and can't wait to see how they grow and develop further over the years.

This review is a little long because I have a lot to say about this school. TL;DR -- lots of…read moreschools have great academics but not so great social environments. Saint Nicholas has top-ranking academics, sure, but, what my children learned about themselves and their peers, and how deeply their teachers cared about and fostered that, is what really made this school the very place for my 5 preschool through elementary children. To put this review in perspective: when I was a child, my family moved to Houston and surveyed top local private elementary schools to enroll me in. I attended one, then another top local private school. Both were academically quite excellent, completely in keeping with their reputations. Unfortunately they were also very cliquish, and because I was the new kid, it took quite a lot of time and effort to fit in, despite having experienced a very loving, inclusive, and thoroughly enjoyable social life at my previous schools. Looking back now, I can understand that the social environment was simply unhealthy at both these Houston private schools. In fact, though I loved learning, my ability to learn and thrive academically was severely compromised by the social situations at these schools. So here's my review of Saint Nicholas: when it came time for my own children to find a private preschool, kindergarten and elementary school to attend, I wasn't going to assume the social environment at a private school would be healthy, inclusive, loving, or provide a positive social foundation. And, though of course I wanted my children to have the very best educational foundation possible, to provide them with the greatest optionality for later educational and career choices, I also knew that the social and emotional environment at a school is equally important -- possibly even more important, because of the foundational nature of what a young child comes to learn about their own innate value as a human being by how others relate to them. I, and more importantly my children, found Saint Nicholas to be the same kind of positive, inclusive, encouraging environment that I had experienced myself at the private schools where I had thrived as a child. Classmates were friends. Positive and respectful interactions with classmates were expected, encouraged, and fostered. It's all about the teachers! The teachers at Saint Nicholas are actually aware of how the students interact, they actually care about this just as much as excellent teaching and excellent curriculum, and, they are very gifted at not only helping the students learn greater social skills, but inspiring them to want to. And these teachers have been at Saint Nicholas school for a long time. Saint Nicholas will probably show you their top-ranking academic test scores and student accomplishments, or maybe you'll hear anecdotal stories from other parents about how their child went from being behind academically, to being ahead academically in just one year. But that's not what mattered to me, and I don't think it happens just because of academic excellence. I certainly don't think high national test scores tell the whole or even the most important part of the story. I think what matters most about a school is what the child learns about themselves, and the value of every human being. At Saint Nicholas, my children learned that they were smart, capable, and valuable. They learned that they could thrive in both inter-dependent and independent endeavors. They learned that they were worthy of both respect for who they were, and being called into the greater self they were growing into. Again - it's all about the teachers. The school administration is capable enough, but I don't believe a school can administrate this. Saint Nicholas has somehow gathered and kept some truly phenomenal and caring teachers.

I just wanted to share that my daughter, thanks to the excellent instruction and personalized…read moreattention that she received at SNS, had absolutely no problem acing HISD's G&T testing this year in Kindergarten. She consistently gets top grades in her class, and we thank SNS for preparing her so well, academically and socially, in their pre-K programs. SNS transformed my shy little girl - who had spent the first years of her life at home during the pandemic - into a confident, smart little social butterfly. My son, attending SNS for summer camps, has also benefitted from SNS academically and socially. Being with slightly older classmates over the summers pushed him ahead of the curve, and he was popular among the younger kid crowd, as the older brother to my daughter. P.S. I believe first responders and BCM employees receive a discount on registration, and the school offers a sibling discount on tuition, as well. Cannot recommend this school enough!

I feel the need to write this because I've heard some FB mommy groups have said not great things…read moreabout this childcare facility. To address the issue: there was a director (who was there about 2 years), and has since been let go (late 2024). She wasn't great. The new director, Kaylen, is fantastic - professional, strives for parental involvement, brings structure. My child attended four years. I can't say enough about the teachers; they give so much of themselves to the students. They work so hard on their curriculum. They love the children. We've found such a sweet little community in this school. I always tell friends that it's a hidden gem, but it shouldn't be! It's centrally located, right by the med center and incredibly convenient for parents who work there. The building has large classrooms, two playgrounds, a gym, a library, a sanctuary, and a large communal area for events. So consider this a review to address the haters. But also one of praise for such a special little place that I would hate to see suffer because people never gave it a chance.

We loved this daycare and only left it after we moved across town! My daughter was there from 8mo…read moreto 2years, so we got to see both the baby room and the 1-2yr old room. All the teachers were wonderful and supportive. They loved my daughter, and you could really tell were as excited about her growth and learning as we were. The campus is great, and they take full advantage of it. They have two playgrounds, one for big kids and one for younger kids. If it's raining, the kids still get to move around by either going on buggy rides through the building or playing in the big gym. They did tons of arts and crafts, and I cherish all the handprint art. After we moved across town we still drove all the way to FCS for 10 months, that's how you know it's good! I recommend the school to my friends.

This was a very family oriented school, your kids were safe, if you was running late all you had to…read moredo was give them a call, they took the time they needed with your child, mine had to go in early and stay late for 2/3 weeks until she got on task, most school would just let you fail, but they cared enough to keep their failing ratio down!! Sad how they just closed down a black school in our black community due to people wanting to get 5 minutes of fame, (karma)

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