Looking for a child care center for your little one? We’ve partnered with three area centers that offer admission and wait list priority to Johns Hopkins families.

You may also find employee discounts on select child care providers through our LifeMart employee discount program.

Our Child Care Center Partners

Homewood Early Learning Center

The Homewood Early Learning Center, located at the corner of Wyman Park Drive and Remington Avenue, offers a nurturing, high-quality environment where children have the time and space to develop at their own pace. Downtown Baltimore Child Care operates the center, which enrolls children ages 10 weeks through preschool, and is open to all, including community members. Priority admission is available to Johns Hopkins parents.

Homewood ELC

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Early Childhood Center

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Early Childhood Center, also operated by Downtown Baltimore Child Care, is a premier early learning facility whose teachers and staff believe all children deserve the best education from the earliest age. The product of years of planning by leading child advocates, the state-of-the-art Weinberg ECC, located near the East Baltimore campus, provides developmentally appropriate learning opportunities for children using the latest evidence-based approaches to ensure children start school ready to learn. The center’s 12-month, full-day operation serves a diverse mixed-income community of children and families who live and/or work in the Eager Park neighborhood and beyond. Priority admission is available to Johns Hopkins parents.

Weinberg ECC

Johns Hopkins Child Care and Early Learning Center (Bright Horizons)

Located on the East Baltimore campus, the Johns Hopkins Child Care and Early Learning Center is designed to serve full-time faculty and staff, full-time day students, house staff, and fellows of the Johns Hopkins University schools of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health; and full-time employees of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Health System, and Bayview Medical Center. The center is open to children ages 6 weeks through preschool for full-time care.

Bright Horizons

Although the child care scholarship does not apply to the other centers below, you may use the child care voucher to help with tuition. These centers also offer preferred wait list status for JHU employees:

Downtown Baltimore Child Care Center

Downtown Baltimore Child Care provides early education and child care to a diverse community, located in downtown Baltimore on the campus of University of Maryland. Children of JHU affiliates receive admission priority.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Child Care Center

The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Child Care Center enrolls children 2 to 5 years of age. Admission priority is given to employees of Bayview Medical Center.

Sherman Early Childhood center

The Sherman Early Childhood Center offers priority placement for infants to five-year-old children of full-time Johns Hopkins University faculty, staff, and students/learners. Located behind the Weinberg Y on East 33^rd Street in Waverly, the center is conveniently located near both the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses. Preregister your child to join the wait list.