Child Care Centers
About Child Care Centers
Ready Start St. Tammany: Enhancing Early Childhood Education
Our organization offers a wide range of services aimed at supporting child care centers, early childhood education, family engagement, and professional development. We strive to enhance the cognitive, social-emotional, language and literacy, and motor skills of every child, taking into account their unique needs and abilities.
At Ready Start St. Tammany, we are dedicated to promoting continuous improvement in early childhood education through various means such as classroom coaching, assessments, and accreditation and certification support.
Type III Child Care Centers
St. Tammany's Ready Start Network (RSN) offers 41 early childcare and education sites with Type III classification. This means that your child will receive a high-quality Tier 1 curriculum and benefit from measured teacher-child interaction.
1st Academy Early Learning Center
A to Z Preschool
AppleTREE Academy
Bambi’s Kids Academy
Bethany Lutheran Open Arms Child Development Center
Cedarwood School
Charlotte's Web Preschool
Children’s College
Circle of Love Daycare
Creative Kidz Slidell
East St. Tammany Rainbow Child Care Center
First Class Academy
Fontainebleau Children’s Academy
Fundamentals of Mandeville
Honeycomb School
K.I.D.S. Learning Center
Kids Kingdom of Covington
Kidz Karousel Academy
Kidz Klub House - Madisonville
Kidz Klub House - Mandeville
Kidz Klub House - Slidell
Kidz Learning Academy
Kinder Haus Nido
Lil’ Hero’s Learning Academy
Little Feet First Daycare
Little Feet First, Inc.
Little Oak Preschool
Little Prince & Princess Academy
Little Red Schoolhouse
Magnolia Preschool
My Little Sprout - Covington
My Little Sprout Too!
Northlake Christian Early Learning
Northshore Kids Academy LLC
Park Place Learning Center
Perfect Milestones Learning Academy
Tabbi’s House ELC
Temple’s Northshore STEAM ELC
Tender Years Child Development Center
The King's Kids
The Little Academy
Academically Approved Family Child Care Centers
St. Tammany offers three academically state approved Family Childcare Centers (FCC). FCC’s are located within the providers home with a maximum of 6 children. FCC’s participate in the state’s quality rating system, childcare assistance program, and are eligible for incentives and supports through the St Tammany Early Childhood Ready Start Network.
Head Start/Early Head Start Centers
Does Your Child Qualify for Tuition Assistance?
Tuition Assistance Programs
St. Tammany offers three programs to help families with tuition assistance.
Louisiana’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) provides qualifying families with financial support for child care services. CCAP helps families, with a parent or legal guardian who is working or attending school or job training, pay for high-quality child care for children under the age of 13 or children with special needs up to age 18. CCAP pays for a significant portion of the child care costs, and families pay the difference charged by the provider.
Louisiana’s Child Care Assistance Program B-3 (CCAP B-3) provides qualifying families with financial support for child care services. CCAP B-3 helps families, with a parent or legal guardian who is working or attending school or job training, pay for high-quality child care for children ages Birth-Three. CCAP B-3 pays for all of the child care tuition and families pay registration and fees.
Nonpublic School Early Childhood Development Program (NSECD) provides pre-K programming to four-year-old's to qualifying families. Children in the NSECD program receive full day pre-k. St. Tammany Ready Start Network has three NSECD participating child care centers: Children's College, Little Feet First (Old Spanish Trail location), and The Little Academy. To apply, contact the centers directly.