Ranked #1 overall across all 11 quality dimensions among every licensed childcare center in Madeira. This is the highest recognition we award in the city.
Best Teachers
Earned the highest teacher quality score in Madeira. This dimension weighs staff tenure, qualifications, warmth reported in parent reviews, and consistency of care across classrooms.
Best Curriculum
Earned the highest curriculum score in Madeira. This dimension evaluates structured learning, developmental programming, and how well daily activities prepare children for each stage.
Most Compassionate
Earned the highest compassion score in Madeira. This dimension captures how families describe staff empathy, how concerns are handled, and the emotional environment of the center.
Best Management
Earned the highest management score in Madeira. This dimension reflects director responsiveness, communication, operational consistency, and the overall tone families experience from leadership.
Best Culture
Earned the highest culture score in Madeira. This dimension captures a sense of community, inclusivity, staff morale, and the feeling families describe when they walk through the door.
Full Ranking Detail
childcare
The Growing Room, located at 7754 Camargo Rd in Madeira, Ohio, is a trusted, long-established center-based provider serving children ages 2.5–5 in mixed-age classrooms. Over 25 years of operation and multiple locations signal strong community confidence, reinforced by the center's current waitlist. Guided by degreed early childhood educators at a 12:2 student-to-teacher ratio, the program emphasizes a meaningful, child-led curriculum grounded in literacy, pre-reading and pre-writing, early math, hands-on science, and the arts—all centered on cultivating kindness, compassion, and social character. Flexible programming includes morning and afternoon preschool, pre-K enrichment for kindergarten preparation, and extended care options from early bird to stay-and-play sessions, making it well-suited to working families.
Safety5.0
Curriculum8.0
Art / Music5.0
Infant care5.0
Kindergarten readiness5.0
Teacher quality8.0
Compassion8.0
Management6.0
Culture6.0
Extracurriculars6.0
Programs & curriculum
Curriculum & approach: Educator-designed meaningful curriculum with focus on literacy, pre-reading/pre-writing, early math, hands-on science, art, and music. Mixed-age classrooms with strong academic foundation centered on child-led learning guided by qualified degreed early childhood educators. Cultivates compassion, kindness, leadership and strong social character.
Programs & activities: Morning preschool program (Mon-Fri, Sept-May, 8:30am-11:30am); Pre-K Enrichment program (Mon/Wed/Fri for kindergarten preparation); PM Preschool (12:00-3:00pm); Early Bird (7:30-8:30am); Lunch Bunch (11:30am-12:00pm); Stay and Play (3:00-5:00pm). Serves children ages 2.5-5 years.
What sets it apart: 12:2 student-to-teacher ratio with degreed early childhood educators. Intimate setting with approximately 12 children per classroom. Located in warm, loving, peaceful environment designed to support developmental growth.
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