Children's Discovery Center

Children's Discovery Center Children's Discovery Center is a family owned child care center caring for children ages 6 weeks to 11 years of age and in business for over thirty years.

Children's Discovery Center has individualized programs for your convenience. We have a full time program, and a part time program. We have full time for parents working five days a week and a part time program for parents who do not need all week. They can choose to send their child one, two, three or four days based on availability. We also have a kindergarten class approved by Wake County Schoo

ls for children who may have missed the cut off date and could otherwise go to public schools. In addition, our classes all include a prepared lesson plan for all age groups during the entire day and the preschool program is included for all ages one through five during the morning hours. We also offer before and after school care, summer camp and an evening care program that is from 6:00 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. The infant classes through the three year old classes are divided into four month age intervals. The four and five year old classes are divided into six month age intervals. This enables us to not only keep children in the appropriate class chronologically, but also academically. If the class you need is not available, we will be glad to place your name on a waiting list and call you when a space is available. We open at 7:00 a.m. and our day program ends at 6:00 p.m. At 6:00 p.m. the evening care program begins and parents who may be running late or caught in traffic will not have to worry about their child. We do ask that parents call to let us know that they are going to be past 6:00 p.m. so that we will have the correct amount of staff to care for the children. We have an open door policy at Children's Discovery Center. Parents can come and visit our center any time during the day without an appointment. Parents are also welcome anytime to help with crafts, read books, or observe their child interacting with the other children. We follow all NC State Guidelines for Day Care and work with each child to help them be successful during their formative years. At Children's Discovery Center, we strive to work not only with the children but with the parents to make this a family oriented program where we all work together for the good of the child. We hope that you will come and visit us so that we can show you not only our wonderful school, but our fantastic teaching staff who care for the children on a daily basis. We think that you will find our center one of the most professional and caring facilities in the Triangle.

02/02/2026

Good Evening Parents,

Best words ever following a Snow Day, "Daycare is Open". We will be opening up at 9:00 am.

There are still a bunch of patchy ice pockets ... so please be aware. The Center drive-thru has another rough patch of snow and ice when you pull through the drive lane. Please be slow coming around the curve.

We will plan on having a staff member for Wake County Students as well. If you need care for your afterschool kid, please message us through the app (there are limited spaces available).

No we will not be serving Breakfast Tuesday Morning.

Be safe, and hope to see you tomorrow morning.

CDC office

02/02/2026

Hey parents,
Even though the roads are better in the Raleigh (dry zone), staffing is our biggest issue since a majority live in the areas that have been affected with more snow. I hate to close, but I think we will have to due to being short staffed. Our plan is to be back Tuesday.
CDC Office

01/25/2026

Parents,
Children’s Discovery Center will be closed on Monday, January 26th.

12/08/2025

Good evening Parents,
Wanted to let you know that CDC will be open tomorrow despite Wake County schools closing. We will be monitoring the weather and we might make a decision to close early.

If your child is a Wake County student, please check back in the morning to see if we have the staff to cover ASC. We have reached out to our substitute staff and should know by morning.

01/22/2025

Good evening, parents,

It seems the sun does with the sun usually does, meaning it melted a lot of the roadways. CDC will be open tomorrow. We are going to do a soft opening meaning please allow our opening staff an extra 30 minutes to get in to school so we will officially open the doors at 7:30 in the morning. Expect more staff to arrive around 8 am.

There is one icy spot in the parking lot when you come into the turn lane. We have thrown some salt on it, but please be cautious coming around that curve.

See you tomorrow
CDC

We are going to officially enjoy a Snow Day on Wednesday.CDC will be Closed
01/22/2025

We are going to officially enjoy a Snow Day on Wednesday.

CDC will be Closed

09/29/2024

In an effort to help in the smallest of ways, Children’s Discovery Center is partnering with a local church to send Diapers and wipes to towns devastated by Hurricane Helene.

We will be collecting donations this week to send out next weekend. All donations will be collected in the Gym/Ballroom.

Thank you for your help in this time of need.

09/26/2024

We will have a teacher available for Wake County school students.
Our Before and After School program get 1st priority.

08/07/2024

Good Evening Parents,

We have checked the weather channels tonight and all of them have projected 5 to 7 inches of rain tomorrow with the possibility of 2 to 3 tornadoes. Given this prediction, we have decided to close for the safety of of our staff and our parents and children. We do not make this decision lightly and we are basing it on people who are professionals predicting weather. I’m sure it is a very difficult position for them to be in each time they have to tell us what to expect from something so unpredictable.

We hope everybody stays safe and we will plan on opening again on Friday.

Thank you,

Anne Caspar

08/31/2023

Dear Parents,
Wake County Schools have closed. We will not have the Before or After School program open tomorrow.
We still plan on opening at normal time for all Preschool Programs (Young Babies to Older Fours).
Stay safe and see you tomorrow.
CDC

08/23/2023

Good day Parents and Friends,

We are asking for you to share with anyone you know that loves to work with Children; We still have Two Full Time openings to join our team for this upcoming Fall season. If interested, please have them email us at [email protected].

07/14/2023

If your child misses the Aug. 31st cut off. We have a few spots in our amazing Kindergarten class. Sign up today!

Address

5511 Avent Ferry Road
Raleigh, NC
27606

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 6pm
Tuesday 7am - 6pm
Wednesday 7am - 6pm
Thursday 7am - 6pm
Friday 7am - 6pm

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