Kings Bay Y At North Williamsburg

Absolutely love Ilana (the director) and her team. Couldn’t be happier with the amazing atmosphere within the preschool and the summer camp.
Your child/​ren will be in the most amazing and caring hands.

Staff is wonderful and the school itself is beautiful. It’s a warm, nurturing environment and I love how passionate the teachers are!

Our son is in the 2’s program at King’s Bay, and we could not be happier. He’s our first child, and consequently it’s our first school experience, but there’s not a single thing we’d change about Kings Bay or the school community. The staff are all wonderful, caring people and we feel completely confident in their abilities. His teachers keep him and his classmates engaged with all sorts of interactive activities, and the program is successfully fostering creativity and curiosity. And if our endorsement isn’t good enough, let our son weigh in: he is excited to leave for school each and every morning.

Our daughter is in the 3s program here and we could not be happier with the school, teachers, director and program!

We ended up putting our son at the Y when we decided it was time to move up from daycare to something a little more focused and organized. We also looked at Northside, but we liked that it is smaller so our son knows not just his own two teachers, but every single kid, teacher and employee there. There are no strangers in the building. Our son always had a hard time being left at daycare, but from the very first day at the Y he was comfortable and excited there, and has been every day since.
From a schedule standpoint, school runs from basically 830 to 3, but there is a lot of flexibility with their early drop off and late pickup programs (which go until 6). That is helpful when there are two working parents without a lot of local family support.
A side note, while it is a Jewish school, they are very welcoming of everybody (we are not Jewish). It is a pretty diverse group of teachers, kids and parents, and what religious elements are there are done with a light touch; mostly things like Chanukah art projects and musician Adam Blotner’s Shabbat sing-​a-​longs on Friday (my son gives Adam’s twice-​weekly performances two big, big, big thumbs up).
If we have another kid, we will definitely bring them to the Y.