Preschools & Day Care in Damascus, MD

Among the 9 preschools and day care centers in Damascus, the care leans toward small, home-based programs and church-hosted schools rather than large centers. Almost all of the work here is early learning for children up to age 5, with Clarksburg families crossing over to use several of these programs.

Little Hands Preschool is a part-time preschool that has served Damascus and Clarksburg families for 15 years. It meets in classrooms on the Or Chadash Synagogue campus on Kings Valley Road, is non-denominational and non-religious, and offers three, four and five day schedules. Google shows 5.0 from 29 reviews, the largest review history on the page. Montgomery Methodist Childrens Center describes more than 40 years of preschool education, and Pleasant Plains Preschool is a church-based preschool registered by the Maryland State Department of Education as a private religious preschool, with a typical day that mixes art, cooking, music and science around a letter of the week.

The home-based programs are where most infants and toddlers go. Sunflower Child Daycare cares for children from 12 months to 6 years, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with part-time schedules on Tuesday and Thursday or Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It has 4.7 from 23 reviews. Little Steps Daycare is a family child care home on Sweepstakes Road for children from 3 months to 5 years, with an infant room, play rooms and a lunch area, open from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mama Bear's Treehouse Child Care is a Christian-based, home-based program for children 18 months to 5 years that follows the Maryland Early Learning Standards with the Teaching Strategies Creative Curriculum.