St David'S Episcopal Day School

Our toddler thrived at St David’s Day School due to the exceptional care and attention from wonderful teachers Ms Lauren, Ms Julie, and others who seamlessly work as a team. It is a very well managed school, led my Ms Kate who, along with the dedicated teachers, thinks about important details. The facilities and programming are fantastic, and the school takes health and safety seriously. So importantly, SDDS is focused on facilitating and accelerating the development of young minds. Highly recommended.

Both of my sons attend St. David’s Day School—my oldest for the past three years and my youngest for the past six months—and I couldn’t be happier with our experience. The amount of love, growth, and development I’ve seen in them here is truly remarkable. The teachers and director are incredibly warm and caring, and they make each child feel valued. Even the church staff goes out of their way to greet the kids by name, which makes the whole environment feel like family. The school is conveniently located downtown, which makes drop-off and pick-up easy, especially from east austin. I’m so grateful we found St. David’s—it’s been a wonderful place for both of my boys to learn and grow!

Our family had a wonderful experience at St. David's Day School and I feel so fortunate that we found it when we did. It is a warm and welcoming school community with a loving and dedicated staff in housed in a historic church with beautiful facilities. But most importantly our child thrived there. I would recommend St. David's to anyone looking for childcare in Austin.

Our 2 year old son has spent the last year in Ms. Lauren and Ms. Julie's toddler class at St. David's, and we have been thrilled with our experience there. As a first time mom with a premature baby born during the COVID pandemic, I was very nervous to send him to school for the first time, and visited many daycares before choosing St. David's. It was very clear to me from the first visit to their welcoming classrooms that they are completely committed to the well-being of their students. For instance, despite the inconvenience, they all masked during the pandemic (many daycares did not) before vaccines were available to young children to protect the students, and they offer a remarkably low student-teacher ratio (a huge, huge plus that means that our son gets more individualized attention). When choosing a school, I wanted to make sure the St. David's facility was safe since it is in downtown Austin, and Head of School Ms. Kate talked to me extensively about my concerns and comprehensively answered every single one of my questions. I truly appreciated the time and effort she spent talking with me about this issue, and it was also clear to me that St. David's has gone above and beyond to create a completely safe and secure environment for their students, which laid my fears fully to rest. Throughout the year, Ms. Kate has been completely accessible to us whenever we had any questions, and she and our son's teachers have truly cared for us as a family. When our daughter was born in the middle of the school year, we asked if we could pay for our son (who was attending half day at the time) to attend one day full day to bridge a childcare gap when I had to stay in the hospital an extra day, and Ms. Kate and our son's teachers instead invited our son to attend full day for the whole week at no charge to us (!!!) which helped us SO much as we adjusted to our new arrival, and Ms. Lauren and Ms. Julie helped my son create a welcome home gift for our daughter! My husband and I were incredibly touched by their kindness and generosity for our growing family! The entire staff at St. David's, from the front desk staff to the building and maintenance workers, all know our son's name and say hi to him. They have all been incredibly helpful and kind to us as I was doing drop off and pick ups while increasingly pregnant throughout the year and then with a new baby in tow. We have also been so thankful for and impressed by his teachers Ms. Lauren and Ms. Julie! Our son loves them and they are in constant communication with us to let us know how he is doing--I feel confident that he is truly loved and nurtured while in their care. Both teachers gave him sweet individualized presents on his birthday, which touched our hearts so much--he loved them as they knew exactly what he would like!! Ms. Lauren always takes the time to talk to me during drop-off and lets me know about new things our son has been doing--new words he has been working on, fun or funny things that happened during the day, etc, things we can work on at home, etc. She even took the time to personally text me a sweet video of our son hugging another child, which meant so much to me! They also made lunch for him when I forgot his lunch at home one day so that I wouldn't have to drive all the way back with a new baby in tow. Our son's language development, which was a concern for us when he started school, has really taken off while in their class, and his socialization has greatly improved. Ms. Kate, Ms. Lauren, Ms. Julie, and the rest of the staff at St. David's truly feel like family to us, and we couldn't recommend them more highly.

Excellent daycare/preschool. It is well managed with caring teachers. I have only wonderful things to say about it.