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The next best thing to your care … is our care.
One of the most difficult decisions you will ever make is where to leave your child while you are at work. The care your child receives will have much to do with shaping an initial sense of worth and the child center you select must provide the same degree of love you wold otherwise provide at home.
All Saints Early Learning Center provides this nurturing environment and is amoung the 1% of child care facilities in Jacksonville to satisfy the accreditation standards of the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs.
The trained and experienced staff, the creative curriculum and the special extras available at All Saints encourage children to develop to their greatest potential during their formative years.
All Saints Early Learning Center has the most desirable staff/child ratio in the city. No class, regardless of age, is allowed to have a ratio of more than nine children to one adult. There is no substitute for the extra attention and care this staffing provides. The chart below compares the legal staffing allowances with the preferred ratio at All Saints.
age Legal Ratios All Saints Ratio
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birth to 1yr 1:4 1:4
1 year olds 1:6 1:5
2 year olds 1:11 1:8
3 year olds 1:15 1:8
4 year olds 1:20 1:8
young 5 year olds 1:25 1:9
All Saints staff member are thoroughly trained in developmental and educational child care. Several have bacelor’s and associate degrees in early childhood education or related fields. Many have received thier nationally recognized Child Development Associate credentials.
All staff members attend up to 40 hours of workshop training annually which provides the most current information in the field of child development, early childhood education, health and safety, CPR, first aid and other current issues. All staff members must pass a rigorus background investigation by both local and national offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
