Kiddie Academy Of Ellicott City Receives National Accreditation

ELLICOTT CITY, MD — Four years after Kiddie Academy of Ellicott City opened its doors to area children, the educational child care center has attained a momentous goal: they are NAEYC accredited. To help his hardworking staff celebrate and to reward their efforts, owner Janaki Patel has set another lofty goal -- to send his teachers on a weekend trip to Mexico.

The school began with just three classrooms, gradually adding children and families to the fold. They began the accreditation process in 2017, a massive undertaking since fewer than 10 percent of all childcare centers, preschools and kindergartners nationally achieve this recognition.

To earn the accreditation, which is awarded for five years, Kiddie Academy of Ellicott City completed an extensive self-study process, measuring the program and its services against more than 400 related accreditation criteria and a set of 10 research-based early childhood program standards.

“For the past two years my wonderful staff at Kiddie Academy of Ellicott City have been working around the clock on getting the school ready for the NAEYC accreditation. The staff has never thought about themselves through the past two years, but only about making this dream a reality for the school, the parents, but most importantly the children. My dream now is to be able to send all of this staff to Mexico for a weekend as a thank you for all of their extraordinary dedication and commitment to the school, the families, and the children as a team building event," Patel said.

Anyone interested in helping support the trip can visit the GoFundMe page that's been established.