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Scripps Exploring Academy offers fun, challenging, and developmentally appropriate activities that focus on the process and pleasure of discovery rather than the final product. Children take part in activities that are designed to stimulate and encourage them socially, emotionally, physically, and intellectually, and families describe the classrooms as having the most fun activities every day.
• Ages: 0–5 years old
• Schedule: Open Monday to Friday from 6:30am to 6:00pm.
Scripps Exploring Academy has been providing early childhood education to families in San Diego County and surrounding areas since 1979. The program focuses on developing the whole child through a personalized curriculum, small group sizes, and age-appropriate programs. It offers a comprehensive, collaborative, and fun early childhood education program with an environment that celebrates, supports, respects, and values each student. The school emphasizes social development, including curiosity, imagination, self-esteem, caring for others, and the ability to play both cooperatively and independently. It maintains spaces and activities that promote curiosity, discovery, imagination, and critical thinking, while encouraging collaboration and communication so students can work toward their full potential.
The leadership team includes Christine Collins as Director of Menifee, Taylor Markevicz as Director of Scripps Ranch, Theresa Basanec as Office Manager, and Priscilla Campos as Assistant Director of Scripps Ranch. Christine Collins has been in the field of Early Childhood Development since 1990, has multiple degrees in Liberal Arts and Child Development, holds a CTC Child Development Site Supervisor Permit, completed Program for Infant Toddler (PITC) care training, and earned both a B.A. in Early Childhood Education Administration and an M.A.Ed; she also teaches Early Childhood Education classes at Theoria Technical College, including Family, Child, & Community, ECE Program Administration & Management, Early Special Needs Education, and Adult Supervision and Leadership. Taylor Markevicz has been part of the early childhood education industry since 2000, is a member of NAYCE, and participates in ongoing child development training to strengthen the curriculum. Priscilla Campos holds a degree in Business Administration. Scripps Exploring Academy is described as a respected and trusted school within the Scripps Ranch community.
Parents report long-term positive experiences with the program, including children attending from infancy through age five, describing teachers as experienced, positive, caring, and loving, and staff and management as helpful. Families note that the environment is well-structured and safe, that the school is very clean for a daycare setting, and that teachers are nurturing and welcoming. Parents also mention that their children learn many things, have fun with teachers and friends, bring home artwork from daily classroom activities, and express that they love school.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
• Ages: 0–5 years old
• Schedule: Open Monday to Friday from 6:30am to 6:00pm.
Scripps Exploring Academy has been providing early childhood education to families in San Diego County and surrounding areas since 1979. The program focuses on developing the whole child through a personalized curriculum, small group sizes, and age-appropriate programs. It offers a comprehensive, collaborative, and fun early childhood education program with an environment that celebrates, supports, respects, and values each student. The school emphasizes social development, including curiosity, imagination, self-esteem, caring for others, and the ability to play both cooperatively and independently. It maintains spaces and activities that promote curiosity, discovery, imagination, and critical thinking, while encouraging collaboration and communication so students can work toward their full potential.
The leadership team includes Christine Collins as Director of Menifee, Taylor Markevicz as Director of Scripps Ranch, Theresa Basanec as Office Manager, and Priscilla Campos as Assistant Director of Scripps Ranch. Christine Collins has been in the field of Early Childhood Development since 1990, has multiple degrees in Liberal Arts and Child Development, holds a CTC Child Development Site Supervisor Permit, completed Program for Infant Toddler (PITC) care training, and earned both a B.A. in Early Childhood Education Administration and an M.A.Ed; she also teaches Early Childhood Education classes at Theoria Technical College, including Family, Child, & Community, ECE Program Administration & Management, Early Special Needs Education, and Adult Supervision and Leadership. Taylor Markevicz has been part of the early childhood education industry since 2000, is a member of NAYCE, and participates in ongoing child development training to strengthen the curriculum. Priscilla Campos holds a degree in Business Administration. Scripps Exploring Academy is described as a respected and trusted school within the Scripps Ranch community.
Parents report long-term positive experiences with the program, including children attending from infancy through age five, describing teachers as experienced, positive, caring, and loving, and staff and management as helpful. Families note that the environment is well-structured and safe, that the school is very clean for a daycare setting, and that teachers are nurturing and welcoming. Parents also mention that their children learn many things, have fun with teachers and friends, bring home artwork from daily classroom activities, and express that they love school.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
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