Hyde Park Play School

Happy faces, busy hands and active minds!

  • Leading childcare center and preschool proudly serving the Hyde Park and Oakley neighborhoods in Cincinnati since 1949
  • Tenured, credentialed teachers that are passionate about early childhood education including some that have been with us 10+ years
  • Committed to providing a loving and nurturing atmosphere, with learning experiences that are fun, creative and educational
  • Top kindergarten readiness reputation built with quality early learning curriculum and rich extracurricular activities
  • Historic, homely facility in a residential, safe neighborhood

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We would like to introduce you to our newest little birds!
Elsa, Olaf, Yolkahontas, Ms. Donica, Pete, and Stripes, and Junie B Jones!!
We love Rent The Chicken! This is one of our most favorite parts of spring! 🐣 🧡

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HAPPY EARTH DAY 🌎 🌱🌳❤️

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HAPPY EARTH DAY 🌎 🌱🌳❤️

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2 months ago

spring has sprung 🌞

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spring has sprung 🌞

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living our best life, one warm day at a time 🌱

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living our best life, one warm day at a time 🌱

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Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park let us know if you’re looking to fill any vacancies this summer…we have intel on a new, exclusive show!

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Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park let us know if you’re looking to fill any vacancies this summer…we have intel on a new, exclusive show!

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2 months ago

Happy (belated) International Women’s Day to all of the amazing ladies at our school. Although we couldn’t find photos of everyone, we so appreciate everything you do for our little ones. You make each day special and always put your students first. We are blessed to have such strong female educators in our center! Thank you!

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Happy (belated) International Women’s Day to all of the amazing ladies at our school. Although we couldn’t find photos of everyone, we so appreciate everything you do for our little ones. You make each day special and always put your students first. We are blessed to have such strong female educators in our center! Thank you!

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Learning

At Hyde Park Play School, the child comes first. We take pride in not only providing for their physical and emotional needs, but for their developmental needs as well. Our curriculum was created for its balance between both teacher-directed and child-initiated learning. It is our goal to help the children develop the passion for learning that they will carry with them throughout their life.  Hyde Park Play School uses a weekly theme based curriculum that is designed to foster social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development and to enhance learning in literacy, math, science, social studies, and the arts.  This allows the teachers to plan and implement a developmentally appropriate, content-rich program for children of all backgrounds and skill levels that is constantly matching the interests of the students. Please be sure to look for the weekly lesson plans hanging in the classrooms.

Communication

Providing an environment where children grow their confidence and learn to express themselves in a variety of situations.

Social and emotional

Encourage children to develop an attitude of kindness, cooperation, courtesy and helpfulness towards others while developing self-confidence and independence.

Physical

Helping children develop their coordination, control and movement through a variety of fine and gross motor activities.

Expressive arts

Enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials.

Literacy

Encouraging children to link sounds and letters and begin to read and write. Children are exposed to a wide range of reading materials to ignite their interest.

Mathematics

Helping children with their counting skills, understanding numbers and simple addition and subtraction problems.

We love HPPS and are so grateful for our time there. The teachers in the Parakeet room are amazing and my daughter loved going to school everyday - no tears, or meltdowns at any drop offs. Her class work was well thought out and she always enjoyed showing me everything she did. They always did outdoor playtime and even neighborhood walks when they could! On top of the teachers, the administration made sure our transition into HPPS was seamless. Alycia communicated clearly and provided the necessary documents so that everything was set to go before our arrival.

Allison Sollisch
Google

We have really enjoyed HPPS! We have been here for 2+ years, and we have LOVED the teachers that our 2 kiddos have had from the infant room all the way to the preschool/pre-k class. They definitely have a great focus on the children, and the teachers & administration love these kids like their own! The teachers adjust to each child's needs and help make the experience fun for them each day. HPPS does a great job of preparing them for kindergarten as well as letting them play and be kids!

Megan Conley
Megan Conley2024-06-11
Google

Great daycare/school owned by small group of individuals involved on a daily basis. They go above and beyond to create a community amongst the students and families. I’ve had children at the daycare 6+ years with more to come. The older kid classrooms are truly preschool/pre-k. My now kindergartener was well prepared.

Andrea Neuwirth
Andrea Neuwirth2024-06-04
Google

We have really enjoyed our time at HPPS! Our now 7 month old daughter started about 3 months ago and loves going each day! She is excited when we drop her off and I feel like she is in great hands there! The teachers have picked up on her preferences and adapt to her needs well! It was definitely worth the long waitlist time!

Bunge Family
Bunge Family2024-05-18
Google

Both our kids went to HPPS and had an excellent experience. They were more than prepared for Kindergarten and made lots of lifelong friends.

C H
C H2022-11-15
Google

We are so thankful for HPPS! Our family spent 8 years there and our 2 kids had the absolute best experience. From 3 months old to off to Kindergarten, they grew and loved every aspect of HPPS. Socially, educational and behaviorally they received the best experience and whenever a situation arose, the teachers and administrators at HPPS were open and honest with our communication. We highly recommend Hyde Park Play School!!

Tyler Dierkers
Tyler Dierkers2022-09-13
Google

How to even begin? The staff, curriculum and overall experience at HPPS is one that could not be replicated. We could not have foreseen so much of what we experienced in our 4 years here and now that my little one is moving on to Kindergarten I think we'll have pangs for what was even as we look brightly into the future. The friendships we collectively developed are more than worth their weight many times over, and I strongly recommend if you're not signed up, you take this as a sign to do so. We were ecstatic the day we got the call, that we had a spot and the nearly daily ritual of pulling up into the semi-circle for drop off and its mirror image on the way home resulted in a myriad of interesting conversations around what happened at school that day. There were always compelling topics, songs, and learning that proved beyond any doubt, that they were indeed making lots of progress. This may have all culminated at the graduation this year where I definitely "had something in my eye" as they processed out to Pomp & Circumstance with their little mortar boards, names read aloud and collected their "certificates of completion". They sang to the crowd about all they had learned and I for one was overcome with emotion. This was followed up by turning their room into an "Airport" followed by "visits" to new countries each week. It has stoked the travel bug in my little one who now wants to visit the Eiffel Tower. All that to say that to a person, every staff member is caring and kind and will do their best to get your child ready for the next stage of life, of that I have no doubt. All I can offer you are our experiences, but I for one have no hesitation whatsoever about recommending HPPS to ANY family.

We sent 3 children here for years and loved how HPPS took care of our kids like they would their own. The mgmt is committed to providing a great experience and the families are a great community!

Kevin Flaherty
Kevin Flaherty2022-07-17
Google

All 3 of my kids have attended here from infant years through preschool and I couldn't have asked for a better experience! Loved the teachers/staff and the management. The preschool rooms really prepared my kids well for kindergarten. I was also impressed during the COVID times with their policies put in place to keep the kids and staff healthy.

Amy Kletz
Amy Kletz2022-02-02
Google

My son attended HPPS 4 years ago for his final year of preschool. I must say I was very impressed with the level of attention given to all of the children attending. The staff is extremely knowledgeable and puts forth effort to ensure each child receives the best education that is offered for their level. The classrooms are a nice size for each teacher to child ratio. I love the fact that the teachers and staff have been with the school for a long time, so no high turnover. Also you don’t have to worry about lunch as it’s included in the tuition. They even have mini concerts of all the songs learned and graduations for each child that proceeds to Kindergarten. The teachers are dedicated to each child’s success at it definitely shows. I couldn’t be more happier and proud of my son attending Hyde Park Play School. I’d highly recommend anyone to send their children here.