Kiddie Academy Educational Child Care, a nationally recognized provider of comprehensive educational child care, announces the opening of a new franchise location at 385 N. York Road in Elmhurst.
Kiddie Academy of Elmhurst, which held its ribbon cutting celebration on Oct. 16, is owned by Kiddie's Playgroup Management, which operates 11 other Kiddie Academy franchises in the greater-Chicago area.
“We are thrilled to open our 12th Academy in Chicagoland and our first in the Elmhurst community," said John Gurgone, vice president of operations at Kiddie’s Playgroup Management. "Our Academies are part of a system designed to prepare little ones not just for school, but for life through the Kiddie Academy Life Essentials® curriculum."
The state-of-the-art, 10,500-square-foot location is equipped with 10 classrooms and features a modern outdoor turf playground, indoor gym and activity room for supervised play, ZONO disinfecting and sanitizing cabinet, FX interactive gaming projector and full-service kitchens for cooking and serving food. Kiddie Academy of Elmhurst is equipped to serve 151 children ages 6 weeks to 6 years old. The new Academy brings approximately 25 jobs to the area.
Established in 1981, the Kiddie Academy brand is celebrating 45 years of serving children and families through high-quality educational child care.
For more information, visit kiddieacademy.com/academies/elmhurst/.
About Kiddie Academy
Since its inception in 1981, the Kiddie Academy system has been recognized as a leading educational child care brand. Headquartered in Maryland, the company supports franchised locations that serve families with children ages 6 weeks to 12 years. Academies offer full- and part-time care, before- and after-school care, and summer camp programs. The Kiddie Academy system’s proprietary Life Essentials®
Curriculum, supporting programs, methods, activities, and techniques help prepare children for life. The company’s philanthropic efforts, including support of national nonprofit Family Promise and multiyear sponsorship of the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, take character education lessons learned in the classroom beyond Academy walls.
The Kiddie Academy system is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), signifying its commitment to quality professional education and training. For more information, visit kiddieacademy.com or follow Kiddie Academy on Facebook at Facebook.com/KiddieAcademy.
