The Goddard School of Grand Rapids (Knapp's Corner)

"We have been delighted with our grandson’s experience at Goddard. The environment is enriching and the staff is creative, professional, and loving. The staff excels at organizing excellent educational activities that are tailored to the unique needs of each individual child."

"Extremely clean and organized facility. Seems like teachers honestly care about how your child is doing on a day to day basis. Very inclusive to everyone and accepting to all types of children."

"Love the teachers, the consistency of things, the attention they give to each student, the detailed daily updates. All the staff is extremely nice and competent."

"My infant attended this daycare for about 2 months and I would like to share my experience. The building is immaculate and the management were always very friendly to me. The owner is nice and would discuss my concerns, but the childcare providers that I interacted with at this location were poor, so I cannot recommend this daycare. -Staff were not mandated to be vaccinated against COVID-19 (but they want to know your child’s vaccine status) and there was always an infant with a cough in the room. Staff did not even follow their own Goddard guidelines of taking temperatures of parents and staff entering the building. -There is a retina scanner (which was broken for 3 weeks), but parents just let any old person through the door anyway! -Cheap, plastic toys and chewed up books. -Infant providers were not “warm”, and it didn’t feel good to drop him off. -Staff wear dirty shoes in the infant room. -The daily report would state that the kids went outside every day, but I never saw even one photo of that or mention of it from staff, so I doubt that happened. -You have to bring all your own supplies and no food or snack program is available. All this for the low price of about $1600 per month."

"Our 3 year old daughter started here a few months ago... we have had a great experience. Staff are super helpful and responsive, and her teachers are very engaged! We were impressed with safety/security on site as well. They do a lot of preplanned activities for the kids which is nice. The teachers in our class also do yoga with the kids!"