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Northern Lights • Columbus
The Clever Bee Academy proudly offers programs for children in Columbus ranging from infant day care all the way to summer camp programs. With a caring staff, in a nurturing environment, we’re proud to help all children grow. With that in mind, we accept various forms of payment.
3525 Cleveland Avenue Columbus, OH 43224
614-401-3571
Monday – Friday
6:30 am – 6:00 pm
Our Northern Lights location, located in the Clinton Township, is an accredited childcare and school readiness provider. Find us inside the Northern Lights Shopping Center. We proudly accept various forms of payment. Please complete the form below to learn more and schedule a tour.
Meet Our Director
Hello, my name is Desiree Mclin. I have been working with my Clever Bee Academy team since August of 2019. I started my career at Clever Bee Academy as the Assistant Director at the Livingston location before I was promoted to the Center Director at Northern Lights. I am currently in college to obtain a higher degree. It has been a pleasure building relationships with parents, children, and staff. I have learned and develop so much with in the last two years of being with Clever Bee. I have two children that attend Clever Bee Academy and they love it here.
Children are born eager to learn. Clever Bee Academy’s program helps lead children to their full potential and prepares them for success in school and beyond.
Infants are born ready to learn and explore the world! Our infant child care classrooms are where child care begins and where your baby develops into a curious and active child. Purposeful play is integrated into every lesson to ensure your infant begins their path to learning with constructive and fun activities.
Toddlers are always on the go! Our toddler classrooms provide a safe environment where your child can explore and learn. Teachers promote self-care skills such as feeding, cleaning, and dressing. As you would expect from the best toddlers schools in the state, Clever Bee Academy Ohio will support your child’s large motor development and hand-eye coordination through a variety of activities such as kicking balls, tossing, writing, drawing, and lacing. Ultimately, we help prepare toddlers for the more challenging preschool programs.
Welcome to Clever Bee Academy’s preschool program! Our preschool classrooms provide daytime child care to meet children’s needs for continued growth and preparation into a key transition – entering kindergarten at the end of the program. We believe that preschool programs promote a healthy adjustment in this period, helping build healthy transitions and attachments in the future.
More than 70 percent of U.S. children have parents who work away from home, leaving 15 million youth unsupervised by adults when the school day ends. With Clever Bee Academy’s before and after-school care program, your kids can enjoy a safe environment to develop in as they wait for you before and after school.
Our summer camp program provides a variety of hands-on experiences that encourage critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, creativity, and collaboration. Enriching teacher-led projects stimulate child discovery through small and large group activities.
Our program supports busy families with adult supervision and child care for their children when they are not in school.
Fill out the enrollment form and one of our Clever Bee leaders will be in touch soon.
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Clever Bee Academy opened our first Ohio location in Cleveland in Dec., 2001. Today we proudly have academies in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo for a total of 14 locations dedicated to providing high-quality child care, preschool, and school readiness programs to the communities we serve.