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Best-rated licensed daycares in St. Albert, AB
10 centres in St. Albert clear the 5-review bar. These are the top 10.
How this list is ranked
Centres are ordered by a rating estimate. That is not the raw Google star average: the estimate blends a centre's own average with the average across St. Albert, and it weights the two by how many reviews the centre has.
The city average used here is 4.6 stars. It is taken across the 10 licensed daycares in St. Albert that clear the review bar.
A centre with 10 reviews sits exactly half way between its own average and the city average. Past that it leans on its own record. Below it, it leans on the city.
A centre with fewer than 5 Google reviews is never ranked on this page. It can still be a good centre; there is simply not enough evidence to place it against the others, and placing it anyway would be guesswork with a number attached to it.
Google ratings are third party. They are shown as plain text, they are not collected by MapleCub, and they are not marked up as review data anywhere on this page.
The badges below each centre report facts about the listing: whether the provider has claimed it, whether opening hours are published, whether a provincial registry reported an opening, whether the centre is enrolled in CWELCC. None of them change the score. None of them change the order.
10 best-rated licensed daycares in St. Albert
- 1
Emelia's Child Development Center
#102 & #202-100 Center Street
4.9 stars from 118 Google reviews
Hours published: 06:30 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.9, reviews 118, rating estimate 4.9.
- 2
Kepler Academy Early Learning & Childcare Sturgeon
300 625 St. Albert Trail
4.9 stars from 49 Google reviews
Hours published: 06:30 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.9, reviews 49, rating estimate 4.8.
- 3
A Nana's Love Daycare
570 St. Albert Trail
4.7 stars from 45 Google reviews
Hours published: 07:00 to 17:30Score inputs: rating 4.7, reviews 45, rating estimate 4.7.
- 4
Little Learners Daycare Campbell
130, 310 Carlton Drive
4.7 stars from 25 Google reviews
Hours published: 05:00 to 13:00Score inputs: rating 4.7, reviews 25, rating estimate 4.7.
- 5
Little Caterpillars Academy
910 - 1115 Street St. Albert Trail
4.6 stars from 36 Google reviews
Hours published: 06:00 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.6, reviews 36, rating estimate 4.6.
- 6
Grandma Gooch Daycare Inc.
105 31 Fairview Blvd
4.6 stars from 28 Google reviews
Hours published: 06:30 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.6, reviews 28, rating estimate 4.6.
- 7
Best Start Daycare Ltd
#200, 2a Hebert Road
4.6 stars from 11 Google reviews
Hours published: 06:00 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.6, reviews 11, rating estimate 4.6.
- 8
An Enchanted Forest Daycare
500 Rivercrest Crescent
4.5 stars from 30 Google reviews
Hours published: 07:00 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.5, reviews 30, rating estimate 4.5.
- 9
Kids Paradise Daycare
6-8 76 Grosvenor Blvd
4.2 stars from 24 Google reviews
Hours published: 06:30 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.2, reviews 24, rating estimate 4.3.
- 10
SIGIS (Larose) Child Care Centre
Bay 1, 3 & 4, 115 Larose Drive
4.0 stars from 12 Google reviews
Hours published: 07:00 to 18:00Score inputs: rating 4.0, reviews 12, rating estimate 4.3.
56 more licensed daycares in St. Albert have a MapleCub listing, including the ones with too few reviews to rank. See every daycare in St. Albert.
Questions about this list
How many licensed daycares are there in St. Albert?
MapleCub lists 66 licensed daycares in St. Albert. 10 of them have at least 5 Google reviews, which is the bar to be ranked on this page. The top 10 are shown here.
How is this ranking worked out?
Centres are ordered by a rating estimate. That is not the raw Google star average: the estimate blends a centre's own average with the average across St. Albert, and it weights the two by how many reviews the centre has. The city average used here is 4.6 stars. It is taken across the 10 licensed daycares in St. Albert that clear the review bar. A centre with 10 reviews sits exactly half way between its own average and the city average. Past that it leans on its own record. Below it, it leans on the city. A centre with fewer than 5 Google reviews is never ranked on this page. It can still be a good centre; there is simply not enough evidence to place it against the others, and placing it anyway would be guesswork with a number attached to it.
Which centres are included on this list?
Every licensed child care programme MapleCub has a visible listing for in this city counts. Approach and programme type make no difference.
Are these MapleCub's own ratings?
No. The star ratings and review counts on this page come from Google, they are shown as plain text, and MapleCub does not collect them, does not adjust them, and does not mark them up as structured review data anywhere on the page. What MapleCub adds is the ordering. The method above says exactly how that is worked out.
How do I check that a centre on this list is licensed?
Every centre on this list is a licensed programme in MapleCub's records, each listing page shows the licence status MapleCub holds for it, and the authoritative record behind both of those is the province's own registry. Look the centre up there by name before you enrol. Confirm the licence is current.