Description: American Day School, located in OldTown Alexandria, was founded in 2007 with the ideal of creating a place where children can obtain an outstanding quality of care and education. To reach this goal, we pay attention to every detail, from recruiting extraordinary personnel, using an excellent curriculum, to having the best equipment and materials possible made available to your child.
We know that children learn best when they are actively engaged. We recognize that children are naturally curious. We know they learn critical science, math, reading and writing concepts through hands-on, sensory-oriented activities. The curriculum used by American Day School gives children the guidance – and the freedom – to construct their own body of knowledge in ways most meaningful to them.
We believe that all children are talented, capable and special, whether they enjoy music or math, whether they want to be a businessperson or a ballerina. And because we know that children learn best when they are actively engaged, we make available to them lots of activities to involve them in concepts, and to empower them to find the ways to learn. Then we provide plenty of space and time to explore, along with lots of support, love and, of course, fun.
The priority of our teachers is to develop a comfortable relationship with all children in their classrooms. A relationship of trust and caring frees children from focusing on competencies and helps them move on to the next stage of development.
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| Inspection Date | SHSI | Complaint Rated | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-28 | No | No | Yes |
| 2023-03-08 | No | No | Yes |
| 2022-10-20 | No | No | Yes |
| 2022-06-06 | No | No | Yes |
| 2021-11-01 | No | No | No |
| 2021-05-10 | No | No | No |
| 2020-10-06 | No | No | No |
| 2020-05-12 | No | No | No |
| 2019-12-17 | No | No | Yes |
| 2019-04-16 | No | No | No |
| 2018-10-02 | No | No | No |
| 2018-05-18 | No | No | Yes |
| 2017-09-29 | No | No | Yes |
| 2017-09-29 | Yes | No | Yes |
| 2017-03-27 | No | No | Yes |
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When looking for childcare, times can get a bit stressful. As a family, we wanted to have our kids in a comfortable environment where they would feel safe and taken care of. I am a military veteran and we were looking for childcare under the 'Childcare Aware' program. Within this program, we were blocked into looking at certain childcare centers and what we discovered is that is not necessarily a model built to take care of each family as an individual. As we know, there is no cookie cutter fit for each child into a particular center. Knowing this, we decided to seek childcare outside of the 'Childcare Aware' program and to go with one that fit our family.....our child.
I can tell you American Day School (ADS), under the leadership of Ms. Pilar Mackay, Ms. Nicole and the rest of the educators, exceeded our expectations. Every morning while dropping off our daughter she was greeted (as well as us) as if she was the most important person around. They do this with each and every kid. We know the love and safety is a focus there because every time our daughter would see a friend of hers outside of school they would always run to each other and give the best hugs. They were always soooo excited to see one another.
At ADS their goal is to provide a positive environment where the children develop a sense of community, are confident, and have fun learning. Having our daughter experience ADS set her up for success when she reached Kindergarten. During her time at ADS she developed her counting well beyond 100, was completing math equations, knew all of her letters (capital and lower case), and was writing her name. Kindergarten has been a breeze for her. She's been very confident and a leader in her class and the teachers have continued to work with her on her math equations once they noticed she was already performing well enough at them. There is no doubt from us that our daughter could her gone to first grade after her Pre-K year with ADS. Our daughter spent a total of two years with ADS (Preschool 2 and Pre-K).
If you are looking for a great head start for you kid(s), I think you owe it to yourselves and your little one(s) to give ADS a look.