Tuckaway Schools

Tuckaway Schools offers an Infant Program with daily skills and concepts, classical music, sensory experiences, and low infant-to-teacher ratios. It also offers a Toddler Program with music and rhythm, socialization, physical activity, exploration, and language development, plus a Preschool Program with learning center areas, teacher-directed and self-directed learning, decision-making, problem solving, and autonomy.

Programs

• Infant Program — infants · Care for the youngest members with daily skills and concepts, classical music and other sensory experiences, and low infant-to-teacher ratios.
• Toddler Program — toddlers · Daily experiences centered around music and rhythm, socialization with other children, physical activity, exploration, and language development.
• Preschool Program — preschool · Learning center areas, teacher and self-directed learning, and preparation for kindergarten through decision-making, problem solving, and autonomy.
• Private Kindergarten Program — children · Full-day program offered at Tuckaway-Innsbrook, Tuckaway-Woodlake and Tuckaway-Varina with focused academic instruction and Virginia SOLs.
• After School Program — school-aged children · After-school socializing, exercise, hobbies, crafts, games, homework time, projects, cooperative activities, long-term endeavors, and field trip explorations.

At a glance

• Ages: 0–11 years old

About the provider

Tuckaway Schools has been open since 1971. Its mission is to offer quality programs for children within a family oriented atmosphere and to help children develop emotionally, intellectually, physically and socially. The school has been voted multiple years as "Best Pre-School" and "Best Child Care," and its curriculum is based on Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP).

Tuckaway meets each child at his or her level of readiness and uses developmentally appropriate, hands-on, creative learning with both teacher-directed and self-directed activities.

Last updated October 28, 2026.