The Barrington School

We absolutely LOVE Barrington! Our daughter is thriving there. Her teachers are amazing and the staff is wonderful! So happy with our choice!

I have to say that as an employee, I love this place. I am treated as a valued teacher. The administration is stellar and makes us feel appreciated! I truly have not been this happy in a job for a long time. The children have excellent learning experiences and the food is organic and very high quality!

I've been waiting for a while to write this review but wanted to make sure I had my child removed from here before hand out of fear of reprisal from the staff.So lets start with the facility. The building is very odd and was clearly not designed to be a day care center. You have to walk through classrooms to get to some of the other, and the office is just a desk at the entrance of the building.One of the biggest red flags to me while my child was enrolled here was the constant turn over. Just looking back through my emails in the short window of 6 months that my child was enrolled I received around a dozen emails regarding staffing changes. Sometimes it was the hiring of 1 individual or an email letting us know that 2, 3, or 4 teachers had left at a time. The turn over was so bad it made retail and fast food look like they have good staff retention.Next up, inconsistent communication or just flat out lies. There were several times where one teacher would say something, another something else, and the director would completely contradict everyone. This happened on multiple occasions. One of the more disappointing ones was and issue being able to get my child on a bus for preschool. We had to jump through several hoops and work very hard to get our child into the preschool program that we were very excited about through Olentangy Schools regarding speech delays. The months, weeks, and days leading up to him beginning this program we were assured by almost everyone on staff that there would be no issue getting him on or off the bus. Suddenly after about a week of him being in the program Barrington suddenly didn't have enough staff to be able to get him on the bus in the morning, even though we were given countless assurances. This is just one of many instances.TLDR: They seem to struggle keeping adequate staffing, they can't communicate properly, and they will go back on their word and act like it's your fault.

Please trust me when I say, do not put your children in this school!!! I wanted so badly to believe it wasn't as bad I thought, but the people who attempt to run this place are awful. They absolutely do not care about your kids in any way, shape or form- they want your money. Period. They are cold, impersonal and deceitful, and lack any kind of integrity or respect for the families who shell out a mortgage each month and those of us entrusting them to care for our Children for half the day. I have caught them in multiple lies regarding the monthly tuition, fees, among other more serious things, and they are hands down the fakest individuals I have ever met. Their curriculum is below the standard of most preschools in the area, and quite frankly I'm not sure what the kids do do all day. They do have an app where you can see what your kids have been doing all day, which would be great, but they write the same things for every kid throughout the day. Most days my kid took 2 hour naps... nope, my child never took one. Also never ate the food they said my child ate, and when my kid would bring home worksheets, I came to find out those were not completed by my child either, but by the teacher. They carry on sensitive and private conversations about children amongst themselves in the middle of the lobby/ entryway and would tell me how "bad" my child was each day at pickup right in front of my child, not to mention the other parents and children I noticed a decline in my child's confidence and self esteem in the time he attended this school, and it makes me sick that I didn't associate the 2 sooner. My child was constantly told he was bad, and towards the end of our time there, he would cry on the way to school because he hated going. He would beg me to let him stay home. And the organic cuisine they brag so much about? it's nothing more than generic packaged food that they try to make sound better than what it really is. You'd be better off buying it yourself for half the price. There are so many wonderful daycares in the area, do not choose this one, you will be very disappointed. They may look good on paper, (arguable), but they truly do not care about your children at all, it's solely 100% about how much money they can get out of you. (As long as your child is an easy and never poses any type of challenge for them.)

I just love this school. My son has been home with me until he turned 2 and started going here soon after and although it's been a hard transition to leave him, the teachers and everyone there are so warm and comforting to him. I love how detailed their updates are on the Tadpole app and I look forward to seeing the pictures of him learning and playing every day!

We've been at Barrington for two months in the toddler room and it has been night and day from our previous daycare experience and I'm so grateful. The staff is so kind and down to earth. They are attentive and get creative to keep the kids busy all day. I receive no less than 5 pictures a day of all the activities the class does: yoga, crafts, dance, circle time, soccer, etc. They provide diapers, wipes, bedding, and food and that has been life-changing. Drop offs are quick, easy, and allow for conversation about the child, not what supplies they are running low on. The menu and onsite chef are wonderful! My daughter is vegetarian and they provide healthy, tasty alternatives for her (breakfast, lunch, and snack.) They hold parent-teacher conferences and provide great, candid feedback about my child. My daughter had a difficult time transitioning back into daycare (from a nanny) and the teachers provided me honest feedback on how her day was, what would upset or comfort her etc. It was so nice to get a real description instead of a generic "she had a great day" when that may not be the case. This is a daycare that invests in their staff and makes the kids their top priority. I'm so happy we were referred here!

As a parent of a child that worked there, I would say parent beware! If this palace is will to treat their employees like crap when you give a two weeks notice, then have an assistant director lie, try to accuse you of stealing as you get your stuff to have another employee tell her it that person not the daycares all to be able to take $99.00 out of an 18 year olds pay check and drop her pay down to $8.75 for her not wanting to stay at your place of employment, I can only imagine the things they do to children when they do not listen. I have heard some of the small things that I have state need to be turned in.