Preschools & Day Care in Virginia Beach, VA

Virginia Beach is a single city with 144 preschools and day care centers in Virginia, and nearly all of them are inside the city limits. The market here leans toward full-day child care that also covers before and after school care and summer camp, with preschool programs for three and four-year-olds running next to it. Le Bon Enfants serves families across the Hampton Roads area, and a few local websites name Hampton and Chesapeake as places they reach.

Several well known chains have campuses in town. Childtime on London Bridge Road has run a daycare and preschool since March 2007, with classrooms for ages 6 weeks to 12 years. The Childcare Network school at 1056 Ferry Plantation Road takes children from infancy through school age. Kiddie Academy has two Virginia Beach campuses, one at 1644 Upton Drive with hours from 6:30am to 6:00pm and one at 4520 Professional Cir with hours from 6:00am to 6:00pm. The Goddard School of Lynnhaven, at 2572 Virginia Beach Boulevard, opened in 2015 under an owner who started a Goddard School in Chesapeake in March 2005.

Older neighborhood schools carry the longest track records. La Petite Academy on S. Independence Blvd. welcomed its first families in February 1983 and is NECPA accredited. Bellamy Manor has taught young children since 1983 as the original school in the Manor Schools family, mixing Montessori materials, the British Infant System and traditional methods. Hope Academy grew out of Hope Lutheran School, established in 1987 by Hope Lutheran Church, and it enrolls infants through kindergarten.

Faith-based programs are easy to find. Sonshine Preschool and Kindergarten meets at Beach Fellowship Church on General Booth Boulevard and serves three and four-year-olds with a new theme every three weeks. Brilliant Beginnings Learning Center III is a faith-based center near Independence Boulevard, Lynnhaven Parkway and Lynnhaven Mall, for children 6 weeks through 12 years.