Cedar Park Reviews & Recognition

Child Care Aware is the nation's most respected hub of information for parents and child care providers. A program of Child Care Aware of America, Child Care Aware helps families learn more about the elements of quality child care and how to locate programs in their communities. Child Care Aware also provides child care providers with access to resources for their child care programs.

Cognia (http://www.cognia.org/) offers accreditation and certification, assessment, professional learning, and improvement services to institutions and other education providers. As a global nonprofit working in over 80 countries, Cognia serves 36,000 institutions, nearly 25 million students, and five million educators every day.

Texas Rising Star is a quality rating and improvement system for Texas early childhood programs. The Texas Rising Star Provider certification system offers three levels of certification (2-star, 3-star and 4-star) to encourage providers to attain progressively higher certification requirements leading to a 4-star.

Goddard’s Circle of Excellence Award for Education acknowledges Schools that provide the highest-quality and most consistent educational programs in every classroom. To be considered for the award, each School must earn one of the top two ratings of its state’s licensing program, become accredited by at least one of the four primary accreditors or achieve P21 (Partnership for 21st Century Learning) Exemplar status.  Schools that earn this award represent some of the top education programs in our system.

This award acknowledges the best in the Williamson County area -- as recognized by the Hill Country News.

Tiny Toes - A Tip Top OB Club is offered exclusively by Cedar Park Regional Medical Center. Tiny Toes is a free program developed to help make the childbirth experience an even more treasured lifetime event.

The mission of P21: A Network of Battelle for Kids (BFK) is to serve as a catalyst to position 21st century readiness at the center of American K-12 education by building collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government leaders. P21, now a network of BFK, will continue to support a vision for learning to ensure 21st century readiness for every student. The Goddard School strives to provide the best possible learning environment, educational framework and professional development opportunities.

Goddard’s Circle of Excellence Award for Education acknowledges Schools that provide the highest-quality and most consistent educational programs in every classroom. To be considered for the award, each School must earn one of the top two ratings of its state’s licensing program, become accredited by at least one of the four primary accreditors or achieve P21 (Partnership for 21st Century Learning) Exemplar status.  Schools that earn this award represent some of the top education programs in our system.

The Goddard School was recognized for outstanding achievements and contributions to the community and the State of Texas. The school’s efforts in building collaborative educational partnerships among educators, business and government has made it one of the top small businesses in the state of Texas and a nationally recognized educational institution. 

Awarded Small Business of the Year by the Cedar Park Chamber of Commerce members and community.

Goddard’s Circle of Excellence Award recognizes franchisees that meet the highest standards set by GSI in the areas of health and safety, curriculum, overall quality, punctual reporting and business operations. Eligibility is limited to franchisees that score in the highest range in all of these categories.

Innovative curriculum incorporating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math (STEAM).

Goddard’s Circle of Excellence Award recognizes franchisees that meet the highest standards set by GSI in the areas of health and safety, curriculum, overall quality, punctual reporting and business operations. Eligibility is limited to franchisees that score in the highest range in all of these categories.

The Kindergarten Readiness System (KRS) provides parents with information that helps them make choices about a pre-kindergarten program and to enable them to select a program that prepares their children to be on or above grade level upon entering kindergarten. High performing programs are awarded the PreK Center of Excellence designation by Texas Education Agency, a state of Texas Gold Standard for high quality pre-kindergarten. The Goddard School located in Cedar Park is one of only two Pre-K programs in Cedar Park that have been selected as "Gold Standard" and only 8% of all Pre-K programs in the Austin area have achieved this recognition.