Daycares in Boise, ID with extended hours

Advantage Early Learning Centers, Boise

Advantage runs two Treasure Valley centers, and the Boise one on West Irving Street keeps the longest weekday window of any center here: 6:30 in the morning to 6:30 at night, so a parent with a late shift still has half an hour of slack at pickup. It takes children from six weeks through twelve years, which means one stop covers a baby and a grade-schooler, and it takes the state child care subsidy. Its published program list runs from infants through school-age care with school readiness activities, arts and crafts, music and outdoor play.

New Horizon Academy, Boise (West Ustick)

This is the West Boise site of New Horizon Academy, a Midwest chain with four Boise schools, and it is the only one of the four that stays open until 6:30 at night. It runs 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on weekdays and takes children from six weeks to eight years, so it covers babies and early elementary but not older school-age kids. New Horizon accepts the Idaho Child Care Program subsidy at all its locations and says its directors will walk families through the paperwork. The building sits off West Ustick near North Cloverdale Road.

Trinity Learning Center, Boise

Trinity runs a Boise center and a Meridian one, and the two keep different hours: Boise opens at 6:30 and closes at 6:00, while Meridian does not open until 7:00 and shuts at 5:30. The Boise site posts its hours day by day and lists Saturday and Sunday as closed, so there is no weekend option here. Its program ladder starts with infant care at six weeks and runs through toddlers, preschool and pre-K, and the center publishes monthly full-time rates by classroom rather than hiding them behind a tour. It does not take the state child care subsidy, which is the trade-off against the other centers on this list.

Boise Kid Co.

Boise Kid Co. is a single play-based center in Mahogany Business Park on the west side, open 6:30 to 6:00 on weekdays. Its program ladder is unusually complete for one building: infants at zero to one, toddlers, preschool, pre-K, before and after school care for ages five to twelve, plus a summer camp and cover for school breaks and holidays. That makes it one of the few options here that can hold a family through elementary school without a second arrangement. It does not publish an age range for the centre as a whole or say whether it takes the state subsidy.

River Academy, Jennie Lane

River Academy's original site sits a block north of State Street near Highway 55, and runs child care from 6:30 in the morning to 6:00 at night on weekdays. It is a preschool and learning centre rather than a bare daycare: the programme ladder is infants at six weeks, toddlers, preschool and pre-kindergarten, and its state record puts the age range at six weeks to six years, so school-age children are not covered. The lobby is staffed full time with a computer entry system that only releases a child to an approved adult. This location does not take the state child care subsidy, though its Pierce Park sibling does.

River Academy, Pierce Park

River Academy's second Boise site is just north of State Street on Pierce Park Lane and keeps the same weekday window as Jennie Lane, 6:30 to 6:00. It runs the same programme ladder, infants through pre-kindergarten, so it is early-years care rather than a place for a grade-schooler. The one practical difference from its sibling is money: this location's state record shows it participating in the subsidised child care programme. Its own page gives hours and a phone number but no age range specific to the site.

Noah's Ark Learning Center

Noah's Ark is the only centre in this table that opens on Saturdays, and it advertises full-time, part-time and drop-in care six days a week. It is also the only one that does not publish clock times, so the hours columns are blank here: the claim on its own site is care twenty hours a day, and the meal schedule it prints runs from an 8 a.m. breakfast through a 5:30 p.m. dinner and an 8 p.m. snack, which is a strong hint that evening care is real. It is a Christian centre on Maple Grove Road taking children from one month to twelve years, it takes the state subsidy, it runs transport to nearby schools for school-age children, and three meals and three snacks are included rather than billed on top. Call before you plan around the hours.

A Child's Heart Learning Center & Nursery

A Child's Heart is a licensed centre on North Cole Road with a state-recorded capacity of 51 children, open 6:30 to 6:00 on weekdays and taking the state child care subsidy. It is the smallest option here and the only one that runs a nursery alongside the learning centre, taking children from about six weeks to six years, so it suits families with a baby and a preschooler rather than a grade-schooler. It has no website of its own, so everything above comes from its licensing record rather than from the centre, and its programme details are worth confirming by phone.