Gilden Woods Early Care And Preschool is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 11920 Nixon Road, Grand Ledge, Michigan MI. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Gilden Woods has received highly polarized reviews. Several parents praise the caring staff, communication systems, and developmental support, particularly in infant rooms. However, multiple serious concerns have been raised including documented LARA violations for staff misconduct, inadequate supervision, poor management communication, chronic understaffing, and inconsistent quality between age groups.
My daughter has been going to Gilden Woods since she was 12 weeks old and we couldn’t be happier with the care we’ve received. The teachers are amazing and I can tell they love the kids like their own! The communication is great and you feel safe leaving your kid there. We toured other schools and nothing compared to this one!
Ive been bringing my son here since I started last year in the GSRP classroom, and I cant say enough about how they flexible, kind and caring they are! They work with my son and I's school schedule and they have helped us tremendously with managing his behaviors.
My daughter has attended Gilden Woods Grand Ledge since she was 2 months old and we have loved how attentive and caring the staff are, and they are great with helping her learn new things to meet all her milestones.
My granddaughter currently attends Gilden Woods Grand Ledge, and we couldn't be happier with the love, care and education she receives every day!
ETA: to be abundantly clear, it also was not the teachers that my child had in the toddler 1 room that made our experience frustrating. The teachers that interacted with my child always seemed great. My husband heard that comment come from a teacher in a classroom higher than our child was in. And the day to day frustrations we had were from the poor communication from the management staff and the constant low staffing. The management was not great in our time here. It was very difficult to understand what was needed when transitioning from one room to the next. As new parents we asked a lot of questions and it always felt like our questions were met with annoyance from the management staff. I asked several times for copies of the rule books / or any classroom policies so we could have a better understanding of the expectations for us and was never given anything. We received messages nearly daily asking for volunteers to keep our kid home due to low staffing. Our daughter was sent home sick one of those days for having "diarrhea", but was a breastfed baby who had just started solids and was having her typical loose breastfeeding poops. She was in the same clothes we sent her in so clearly had not had a "blow out". The teachers in the infant rooms were fantastic with my daughter and were the reason we stayed as long as we did! They were responsive and playful. However, as she got bigger and transitioned into toddler rooms there just weren't a lot of opportunities for gross motor play unless they were outside. Also after she transitioned, when I would ask how her day went I often got told "idk, i've only been in here for 30 minutes" and that was really frustrating. My husband also overheard a teacher in one of the older toddler classrooms tell a kid he wouldn't get to eat breakfast if he threw another toy during drop off one morning. We made the switch to EC3 and we have been amazed at the difference and how happy my toddler is every day when we pick her up.