The Goddard School of Meridian

Our family has been with Goddard for four years and love being here. Our daughters love going there and have nothing but wonderful things to say when we pick them up. It is great to hear the excitement in their voices as they tell us about their days. Ms. Clare makes every day a fun adventure in her room and ties every activity throughout the day into their curriculum. Ms. Cathy helps all the children in her class grow and foster positive relationships with each other along with teamwork and respect. Mr. Jake is caring and has a wonderful way of connecting with the kids. He helps promote responsibility and encourages a fun learning environment. We are beyond grateful to have these teachers along with the office staff and owners helping our children grow.

Our family loves this school!! We are new parents and we could not be more amazed by the care and compassion that is radiating from the staff. Our daughter unfortunately will spend many hours away from us but we could not ask for a better extended family to help us care for her and show her how to figure out this whole thing called life. I just cannot rave enough about them. We are incredibly lucky to have found Goddard.

We've been with this Goddard through two owners and now it's the third owner who has my wife and I unsatisfied and no longer customers. Primary reasons are poor customer service, no scheduling flexibility and forgetting simple requests on multiple occasions for our daughter. While recently comparing some of the local daycares, we not only found more scheduling flexibility than Goddard, but better extracurricular activities and healthier food/snack options. Shockingly, based on part time care it was $200/month more at Meridian Goddard. My advice....research your options because there are places who offer more service(s) than just overpriced daycare.

This school is amazing. We relocated from FL and had my son join PK. We found the teachers to be invested, caring and committed. The owner is on site and runs a well oiled machine. The office staff is friendly, helpful and communicates well. Our standards are high and this school exceeded them.

Our daughter has been attending Goddard for 2-and-a-half years and we love it there. And she loves it too - in fact, when were at the beach on vacation she told us she couldn't wait to get back to see her friends and teachers. The staff is amazing and you can tell they really care about the kids' development. In addition to the great social skills she is learning we are constantly surprised at how her time there has enriched her cognitive abilities - she is always learning new words and singing new songs. And she can count to 20 which is pretty good for a 2 year old! And best of all, at least for me as a worry-wart parent, is that I know she spends her days in a safe and caring environment. My husband and I highly recommend this early learning facility.

I love the teachers and the idea that these are educators who care about the kids and are knowledgeable about early learning environments and academic needs. The teachers here are not just babysitting but are teaching. The curriculum is much more advanced than a scripted, business-model school. This was one of the first schools I have taken my children to that they both loved going to and also gained an education.

I've had both of my kids go through Goddard Meridian and they have been fantastic, even when having to navigate COVID. They're always super responsive to any questions or concerns, work with families to support schedules and offer other fun activities for the whole family as well as parents.

My child came here for a short time and it was awful. They allowed people to wear shoes in the infant room. There was almost always more than the allotted number of infants to adults in the room. I would come to pick up my child and they were always covered in spit up, spit up dried to their face, dirty diaper and not fed. So I would need to clean them up, change the outfit and the diaper before I could hit the road. Highly disappointing. No one met us on the first day to let us in so we waited in the front for almost 20 minutes. Orientation was a few things rattled off on the phone and no direction on how to get a code to enter the building. Got my bill wrong for the first month. Put everything in writing with the directors. The parents at this place were also inconsiderate. Do not recommend.

Note: this review was edited after the school owner contacted me to discuss the review. It's unfortunate that it took a public review for this action rather than addressing concerns early on.Our daughter attended this school for a little over 1.5 years. The overall experience was good. The curriculum is rich; the teachers were kind and attentive to our daughter's needs. After almost 6 months, our child's behavior started changing. We started receiving incident reports regarding our child being attacked by another (bit, scratched etc.). Although we were reassured that this was a normal behavior as the children in this age are learning to set boundaries and learn the concepts of sharing and using words and gentle touch, the number of reports was alarming. We were receiving an average of a report every other week. Some incidents were very mild; others were serious ranging from a bite on the arm that bruised for a week or a scratch very close to the eye. As parents, we felt concerned that the school wasn't doing enough to prevent this behavior from occurring as frequently as it did. Despite numerous requests to the management to intervene, not much was done to at least reduce this frequency. After few months, we started receiving incidents about our daughter attacking other children when they tried to take a toy from her or invading her own space. This was also concerning, noticing how she started to change. We also started noticing this at home. She was threatened by anyone who was trying to get close to her even for a hug. The incidents at the school continued until she was unenrolled. As concerned parents, and to ensure our daughter was truly in a safe environment and the behavior we've been experiencing wasn't because of negligence or lack of supervision, we filed a case with the State of Colorado. The State followed up with the school and after weeks, the case came back unfounded. Another issue we experienced was the class ratio. The standard ratio was 1 to 6, but it was very normal to see one teacher attending to 10 children sometimes more in the morning. Our regular drop off time was between 8:30-9. On numerous occasions, when I saw the class being such a mess and out of control, I had to stay with my child until the other teacher gets in; which meant being late to work and important meetings. I addressed my concern to the management multiple times. What we noticed then, was that every time the director or one of her staff members sees me walking through the door, she'd go running to my kid's classroom to balance the ratio and watch the classroom until the teacher arrives. This was also addressed by the licensing office and this issue was later resolved later.I thought about transferring my child to another daycare, but this school had advantages being minutes away from work. We liked the school and the environment. We also didn't want our child to switch between schools and have to readjust to the school system, the teachers and the children. I chose the path of not giving up and trying to work this out with the management together as a team.We wish the school all the best and we thank everyone who cared for our little one and taught her something good.

This place is just wonderful! The teachers that watch my infant son are so warm and caring, it just took a day for him to get comfortable and transition to the new environment. Impressive! He now goes to the teachers in the morning and doesn't cry when I leave, so I feel good he enjoys his time there.They place an emphasis on learning. He's learning things like how to turn pages in a book (which he's been applying at home), eat solids, he does art projects, plays with other babies and he's just be more independent as a whole. The price of this place is higher than some other day cares, but if you see the difference in quality of care, it's definitely worth it. I get pictures of him throughout the day and he's got a huge smile in each one! There are so many day cares out there that we looked around for months before deciding on this place and we are beyond pleased with our decision!! We hope to keep him here until he starts preschool. Having a peace of mind your baby is well taken of care of is priceless and we are so grateful we were able to be apart of the Goddard family.