Located on a high hill, Mount Carmel Christian Church has been around since 1906. It provides Bible classes and activities for youth, such as choir, band and events with guest speakers. Worship services blend the contemporary and the traditional. The church operates a preschool and an elementary school that goes up to grade eight.
Appletree, located on East Ponce de Leon between Brockett and Idelwood Roads, offers childcare from six weeks of age and after-school care for school-aged children up to 12 years old. It has two pre-K classes that are part of Georgia's program.
Founded by Terence and Iranetta Willis in 1997, the childcare and pre-K school is one of two Appletree centers in the Stone Mountain-Clarkston area. The pre-K classes use a High Scope curriculum and that program is modeled in the preschool classes. The center also provides extracurricular activities, including art and music, and field trips.
It Takes A Village offers care for children from six weeks to 12 years of age and has a private pre-K program. The curriculum is based on A Beka Book, a Christian-based program. The facility is located on Rockbridge Road, near Memorial Highway.
The Sunshine House on Annistown Road, near the intersection of Rockbridge and North DeShong roads, is part of a chain of daycare and preschool facilities. It accepts children from six weeks to 12 years of age, and has an educational program tailored to each age group for infants to five years. It has an after-school program for school-aged children.
The Sunshine House provides transportation to and from Princeton and Pine Ridge schools in DeKalb County, and Shiloh, Annistown, Centerville, Rosebud, Norton and Mountain Park schools in Gwinnett.
This Prime Care Learning Center, located just east of Stone Mountain Park on Rockbridge Road, is one of three centers in the metro Atlanta area. Prime Care accepts infants from six weeks and children up to 12 years old. It uses the HighScope program for its educational curriculum, which focuses on giving children a direct, hands-on learning experience with the subject matter.
Prime Care has a private pre-kindergarten class and also has one class that's part of the Georgia public schools program.
The Harvest School, located on North DeShong Road close to Rockbridge Road and DeShong Park, accepts children from six weeks to 12 years of age. It offers a prekindergarten class and a private preschool class. The school uses Macmillan Math, Early Reader and Pinnacle curricula. Spanish is taught four days a week.
The Harvest School stresses interaction in the community. Programs include visiting a local senior citizens center or taking the children to visit the center. A local librarian makes trips to the school to read to the children.