The Children’s Development Academy affords all children in our community high-quality early education. Our vision is Best Start, Brightest Future, Every Child.
Fast Facts:
• Located in downtown Roswell
• Founded in 1968
• 240 children attend full-day early childhood education in nine vibrant classrooms—three each for Toddlers, Preschool and PreKindergarten
• The CDA program strives to prevent the Achievement Gap by Shrinking the Opportunity Gap that economically disadvantaged children suffer vis-à-vis more privileged peers.
• By focusing on our community’s most vulnerable, our program can:
Improve health outcomes and lower costs
Boost earnings; personal and corporate
Produce a higher rate of return on social spending: 7:1 dollar per investment for early education, and 13:1 when focused on high risk children
Reduce demand for prisons, dropout rates, and teen pregnancies
Return reliable, productive parents to the work force