December 06, 2024
EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE

For a listing of all child care providers
licensed by the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
Department of Early
Education and Care, please visit their
website.
Click here for website.
 
FAMILY CHILD CARE PROVIDERS

Milton Area Family Child Care Association
Association of licensed family child care
providers serving children from infancy
through school age.
Call for information about services available
and current openings.
Click here for their Facebook page.
 OR
email cpcmecasld@verizon.net to request a
current listing of licensed family child care providers.
 
CHILDCARE PROGRAMS/PRESCHOOLS/KINDERGARTENS  
 
Adams Street Early Learning Center
330 Edgehill Road     617-696-3006
Ages: 2.9 years to 5 years
Open: Follows Milton Public Schools
calendar
Cultivates the young child’s emerging
self-concept with a diverse preschool
program. Focuses on developing
physical, social and cognitive skills
through structured play.
www.adamsstelc.com

 Campbell School     617-696-4222
180 Blue Hill Avenue
Preschool Hours: 8:45-11:45
Kindergarten Hours: 8:45-2:45
Early arrival and extended day to 5:00.
Child centered, developmentally
appropriate program with experienced
teachers and small classes.
 
www.thecampbellschool.com

Carriage House School     617-696-2468
777 Randolph Avenue
Hours: 7:30-5:30; part and full time
Ages: 3 years to 6 years
Open year round.
September to May:
Preschool: 3 to 5 years; morning and
afternoon sessions
Pre-Kindergarten: 4.9 to 6 years half and
full day
Kindergarten: half and full day
June, July and August:
Summer Camp with swimming pool.
Warm, nurturing environment for
children to grow and learn. Activities
are developmentally appropriate and
encourage a love of learning, while
building self-esteem.
Click here for website
 
Carriage House Nursery School     617-696-3030
535 Canton Avenue
Hours: 8:00-3:15
Pre-school: 2.9 years to 4 years
Morning Sessions; Lunch Bunch
Pre-Kindergarten: 4.9 to 6 years
Warm, nurturing environment allows
children to grow and learn by helping
them feel successful without pressure,
moving one step at a time. Celebrating
more than 25 years!
Click here for website
 
Carriage House School Childcare     617-698-2223
777 Randolph Avenue
Open year round.
Ages: 15 months to 4 years old
Open: 7:30-6:00
Offering full day and part day, flexible
scheduling and sibling discount. Warm,
nurturing environment allows children
to grow and learn by helping them
feel successful without pressure,
moving one step at a time.
Click here for website
 
Centre School     617-696-0765
505 Canton Avenue
Hours: 7:30-5:30; part day and full day
toddler and preschool programs
Ages: 18 months to 5 years
Open year round.
Nurturing environment where children
feel safe, comfortable and trusting as
they develop self-esteem and self-
confidence in an interactive,
child-centered, developmentally
appropriate program.
Click here for website
 

Delphi Academy
     617-333-9610
564 Blue Hill Avenue
Hours: 8:15-5:00
Ages: Starting at 2.9 years
Offers both half and full day schedules.
Delphi Academy of Boston is an
independent, coeducational, non-
sectarian day school offering a
preschool through eighth grade
program. 
Delphi Academy's mission is to give each child
a strong educational foundation to
reach their full potential.

Click here for website
 
Discovery Schoolhouse     617-333-9876
101 Blue Hills Parkway
Hours: 7:00-6:00
Ages: 18 mos. to 7 years
Open year round.
Interactive, child centered, multi-cultural
developmentally appropriate program,
which assumes children learn through
active participation and discovery.
Preschool and kindergarten.
Experiential, literacy-based program.
Diversity of children and staff.
www.discoveryschoolhouse.org
 
Headstart     617-249-2000
22 Pray St., Quincy 02169
A comprehensive early childhood
program that serves children from
low income families and children
with and without disabilities.
Click here for website.

Learning Circle Preschool     781-828-4800
Three Blue Hill River Rd., Canton 02021
Hours: 8:30-11:45 two, three, or five day
preschool programs
8:30-11:45 MWF plus 8:30-2:45
Tuesday/Thursday pre-k program
8:30-2:45 Monday-Thursday plus
8:30-11:45
 Friday kindergarten
Extended day 11:45-2:45 Monday-Thursday
Ages: 2.9 years to 7 years
Open: September through mid June,
following the Canton Public School calendar.
Summer program through July.
Learning Circle Preschool offers child-centered,
individualized, developmentally appropriate
programs.  Our emphasis is on play,
as it is through play that young
children learn. Our core values are
inclusion, diversity, and fairness.
We work in partnership with parents,
communicating closely, encouraging family
involvement in the program and offering
support and education on issues relating
to child development and early childhood
education.
http://www.learningcirclepreschool.org/

 
Milton Public Schools
Edge Hill Campus at Collicot School
Five half day AM or PM sessions
Age 3 on or before August 31st or 4 years old

Gile Campus at Milton High School
Three half day AM or PM sessions
Age 4 on or before August 31st

Blue Hills Campus (half day) at Tucker School
Five half day AM or PM sessions
Ages 3 and 4 on or before August 31st with
priority given to 4 year olds

Blue Hills Campus (full day) at Tucker School
Five full day sessions
Age 4 on or before August 31st

For more information, please call Marti O’Keefe McKenna,
Family Outreach Liaison at 617-980-7343 or
email
preschool@miltonps.org

Click here for website.
 
 St. Agatha School     617-696-3548
440 Adams Street
7:50-2:20 K0 and K1
7:50-2:30 K2
Extended day 7:50-6:00
K0, child must be 3 by 8/31
K1, child must be 4 by 8/31
K2, Kindergarten
Open: School Year and Summer Camp
 
St. Mary of the Hills
Early Childhood Center
     617-698-2464
250 Brook Rd.
Hours: 8:50-2:45
Extended day 7:15-5:30
A
ges: staring at 2.9 years
Follows the Milton Public School
calendar.
Our program emanates from beliefs about the
nature of the young child as a growing,
developing person and learner. Curriculum
and instruction is thus based on an informed
understanding of a child's general developmental
patterns, knowledge of a child's individual
characteristics, awareness of the cultural,
linguistic and social contexts which shape
the child's experience and state and
Archdiocesan learning standards.
Click here for website.
 
Sunshine School
     617-696-3823
610 Adams Street
Hours: Mondays through Fridays:
9:00-12:00 and Tuesdays for a
PreK group from 12:30-3:00.
Also offer early drop-off beginning at 8:00 AM.
Lunch program offered from 12:00-1:00 on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and
extended day from 12:00-2:15 on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Ages: 3 years to 5 years
Follows the Milton Public School
calendar with June/July summer camp
for enrolled students.
Loving, supportive environment where
all children are educated for success.
Governed by board of parents and
director.
Click here for website.
 
Thacher Montessori School     617-361-2522
1425 Blue Hill Avenue
Ages: 2.9 years to 14 years
Follows the Milton Public School
calendar.
Founded in 1971, offers a program of
Montessori education at preschool to
middle school levels.
http://www.thacherschool.org/

The Children's Center at
Milton Academy
     617-898-1681
338 Centre Street
Hours: 7:30-5:30
Ages: 1 month to 6 years
Open year round.
Safe, secure and stimulating
environment that fosters
curiosity, creativity and
self-esteem. Priority given
to faculty and staff of Milton
Academy.  Managed by
Bright Horizons.
Click here for website


Village School
     617-698-2150
112 Randolph Avenue
Hours: 8:30-11:30 two, three or five day
programs
12:30-3:00 Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays
Pre-K: 8:30-11:30 Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays plus
Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30-2:30
Extended day options for morning
programs Mondays, Tuesdays and
Wednesdays
Ages: 2.9 years to 5 years
Open: follows Milton Public School
calendar with summer programs in
June and July.
Stimulating materials, motivating
curriculum and guidance allow
physical, social, intellectual and
emotional development at child’s
own pace. Small classes with two
experienced teachers per class.
Frequent communication with
parents. 
http://www.villageschoolmilton.org/