Archway Academy ignites children's minds

The Archway Academy team is honored to be named Sumter’s Best Preschool and Best Child Care Center for 2023! Thank you to everyone who voted for us. We appreciate your confidence in what we do for the youngest members of the Sumter community – our children.

Now in our 38th year, Archway Academy has been serving the Sumter community with excellence since 1985 by providing quality early care and education and engaging afterschool programs. Our mission is to provide a solid foundation for a sound education. Our team of dedicated early childhood professionals works hard to ensure all students attending Archway Academy enjoy enriching, funfilled experiences to take with them for a lifetime.

Our programs are aimed at one thing: igniting the minds of young children by fostering their academic, social and emotional growth through purposeful lessons and materials that intentionally produce a positive outcome. We have incorporated content from Conscious Discipline® strategies for social-emotional development. In addition, we help prepare a child for kindergarten and beyond with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math).

The relationships built here with our school family are treasured for years to come. Students attending Archway Academy enjoy unique experiences with our Farm to Preschool Program, including a curriculum based on nutrition, activities involving food and gardening by the children. The children enjoy planting, growing and eating the food they grow. In addition, Archway Academy is home to the award-winning Camp BBC, a summer day camp for schoolage children. The motto of Camp BBC is to create FUN!

Archway Academy is family owned and operated and now serves children of children from years past. We call them our legacy families. Again, thank you to our voters and families because you and your children are why we work to be the best at what we do.

Archway Academy has two locations in Sumter, 2049 McCrays Mill Road and 416 S. Wise Drive, and three locations in the Summerville area. Please call (803) 773-6480 (McCrays Mill Road) or (803) 773-4300 (South Wise Drive) to contact a director for enrollment information.

For more information about Archway Academy programs or career opportunities, please visit our website at www. archway.academy.