Wakefield Creative School

Wakefield Creative School is a child care center on Wakefield Pines Drive in the Wakefield area of north Raleigh, open since 2005 and part of the Creative Schools group. It has provided educational child care to families there for two decades.

Classrooms follow The Creative Curriculum paired with Conscious Discipline, an approach that gives as much weight to how children handle themselves as to what they learn. The center also runs an NC Pre-K classroom, and families are welcome to visit with or without an appointment.

What to know

• The center holds a Five Star Center License from DCDEE, license number 92001956.
• It scored 14 of 15 quality points, with full marks on education.
• Licensed capacity at the center is 198 children.
• April Wiggins is the center director and has been with Creative Schools since 2005.
• She has over 20 years in early care and education, 17 of them in administration.