Lily Pad Montessori School

Our son has been going to LilyPad 4-5 days/week for almost a year now. He started at 16 months in their “Tadpole” room with toddlers 1-2 yrs old. We had to switch daycares and were very nervous about having new care givers, we had a great experience at our previous daycare center. The teachers and management at LilyPad are EXCELLENT! They take pictures of your child daily, report back to you all the activities they participate in that day and any other exciting or important news. The staff genuinely care about the children. We have seen so much growth in our son since he began attending. He literally comes home and talks about his teachers and says he loves them and his school friends. 10/10 HIGHLY recommend this early learning/daycare center. We are staying until he is forced out!

My two kids both go to Lilypad with my oldest went through every single class from the infant room to preschool classroom. We are very pleased with the environment over the years. Every teacher in every room is caring, nurturing, and a key part of my children's development. My older kid particularly thrived in the Bullfrog (pre-school) classroom over the last year. Her speech developed leaps and bounds within a year with all the activities, like life skills, stations, show-and-tell, in the classroom. I can't wait to see how my younger one grow up with Lilypad.

Sent both my kids here. Really sweet staff that took good care of our kids. Would recommend to friends and family.

Our daughter started here when she was 1.5 years old and just turned 3. My husband and I were nervous and conflicted about our decision to put her in school but we’ve absolutely loved what we’ve seen. Our daughter has learned so much and grown in more ways than we could’ve hoped for. She loves her teachers and we can tell that her teachers love her back. We’re lucky to be part of this community! The director (and other staff) are communicative and collaborate with the community often on different decisions that arise. The classes are small and the teachers are loving and committed to the kids. We’re so glad we took a leap and decided to enroll our daughter when we did!

After having read all these reviews before enrolling my child here, I was confident that I was leaving my child in good hands when I went to work for the day. Ms. Jessica was so timid when I talked to her after first days pickup that it made me nervous. After getting home I found my baby's diaper area to be dirty. The daily report is sent electronically and when I received this saw she only had a handful of diaper changes(2 month olds need frequent changes-especially when they overfeed your child when they cry rather than checking to see if they're wet). During the week we sent our child here they barely changed her every two hours, except for her last day there. When our concerns were shared with one of the directors we were assured the teacher would be talked to, to make things better. Same things kept on happening the whole week. And the thing is since we're obviously not there during the day we could only go off of the daily report and what the teacher says at the end of the day, both of which differed from each other, and went against either what we had asked for or Illinois State guidelines. We really wanted to keep our baby here, but after the second time talking to the director she said that she wasn't in the room and didn't know what was happening. To me that's an unacceptable response since you know issues and concerns were already brought up, why wouldn't you be making an effort to know what is going on in YOUR building. After picking our child up after that day we told the director our baby wouldn't be coming back. All she said was, "ok I understand". No attempt to keep us or make things better. Then the next day we get an email saying the center didn't agree with our complaints, when, once again all we can go off is what they tell us, as our baby can't talk. Personally I feel like the overall issue with this center is that there are too many young inexperienced people that haven't been shown how to run things by anyone with years under their belt. And please find another teacher that seems to like babies for the baby room. *I'm not sure how to spell her name, but the other infant teacher, if you are so lucky, will probably not cause you any of this grief, but unfortunately the directors lack of genuine empathy soured this location for us.

We love going to Lily Pad. Everything about the school is excellent from the lesson plans and learning environment to the beautiful facility. The teachers are great! They make the drop off and pick up process easy. I know all of my children are in great care and they enjoy going to school here. I’ve recommended them to a lot of friends and family and continue to recommend them whenever I can.