Seattle · Licensed center
New Discovery School
At a glance
- Medium play-based center, licensed for 74 children.
- Hours 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., 5 days a week, school year.
- Tuition $1,303 to $1,550 a month, half day; the age it is for isn’t stated. See costs
- Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.
From their website, read August 2026:
“3’s: 5:1, 10 children per class”
“4’s: 6:1, 12 children per class”
“5’s: 18:3”
The state’s rule
Washington sets the most children one adult may care for by age, and the largest group size, in WAC 110-300-0356(5).
Infants (birth through 11 months): one adult for every four.
Toddlers (12 through 29 months): one adult for every seven.
Preschoolers (30 months through 6 years, not in kindergarten): one adult for every ten.
School-age children: one adult for every fifteen.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at all 3 of its licensing inspections since January 2024. It lists no valid complaint about this center.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Apr 20, 20262 citations
Training requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.
“Staff hired prior to 2018 will need to take this training (AB, MB, GB, PO, KS, MW, FZ).”
WAC 110-300-0106(4)
Food allergies and special dietary needsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.
“Expired epi pen and expired Zyrtex observed and discussed with director B.E.”
WAC 110-300-0186(2)
May 19, 20251 citation
Training requirementsShort Term. Fix within 10 business days. Rechecked within 15.
“Updated BBP training is needed for multiple staff.”
WAC 110-300-0106(10)
Jan 11, 20246 citations
Training requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.
“During annual inspection, licensor A.S. observed staff files and merit missing multiple trainings and multiple parents.”
WAC 110-300-0106(12)
Training requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.
“0160(1), unsupervised staff missing training requirements.”
WAC 110-300-0106(12)
Training requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.
“0160(10), multiple staff missing blood and body fluid training.”
WAC 110-300-0106(12)
Training requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.
“0160(11), multiple staff, substitute teachers and volunteers missing cpr/first aid training.”
WAC 110-300-0106(12)
Training requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.
“0160(12), multiple staff missing fool handler permit training.”
WAC 110-300-0106(12)
Training requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.
“0160(3), Licensor observed dance teacher was unsupervised with children in dance class without child care basics training. These violations has been discussed with director B.E.. Director reported, parents volunteer during rest time and or staff meetings, some unsupervised.”
WAC 110-300-0106(12)
The state cited rules at all 3 of this center's inspections. Most Seattle-area centers inspected 3 times had fewer: 67% of 364.
How all 364 Seattle-area centers inspected 3 times compare
Of the 364 Seattle-area centers the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None12%
- 1 of 321%
- 2 of 335%
- All 333%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Washington DCYF
- Last visit
- April 20, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since January 2024 — all of them cited findings
- Most serious
- Serious —
Staff hired prior to 2018 will need to take this training (AB, MB, GB, PO, KS, MW, FZ).
· April 20, 2026
Washington DCYF publishes each citation in the licensor’s own words, with a risk level.
Apr 2026 Licensing visit 2 findings
Licensing visit · April 20, 2026
WAC 110-300-0106(4) · Serious
Staff hired prior to 2018 will need to take this training (AB, MB, GB, PO, KS, MW, FZ).
Food allergies and special dietary needs
WAC 110-300-0186(2) · Serious
Expired epi pen and expired Zyrtex observed and discussed with director B.E.
May 2025 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · May 19, 2025
WAC 110-300-0106(10) · Short Term
Updated BBP training is needed for multiple staff.
Jan 2024 Licensing visit 6 findings
Licensing visit · January 11, 2024
WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious
During annual inspection, licensor A.S. observed staff files and merit missing multiple trainings and multiple parents.
WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious
0160(1), unsupervised staff missing training requirements.
WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious
0160(10), multiple staff missing blood and body fluid training.
WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious
0160(11), multiple staff, substitute teachers and volunteers missing cpr/first aid training.
WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious
0160(12), multiple staff missing fool handler permit training.
WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious
0160(3), Licensor observed dance teacher was unsupervised with children in dance class without child care basics training. These violations has been discussed with director B.E.. Director reported, parents volunteer during rest time and or staff meetings, some unsupervised.
Shortlist replaces people’s names in the state’s text with initials. This is done by rule, not by hand, so it can miss a name or shorten a word that isn’t one. The state’s report, linked on each row, has the original.
What it costs
$1,303 to $1,550 a month
Seattle-area comparison hidden until they say which age this price is for.
- Application fee
- $55
A day here
8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., 5 days a week, school year
Meals, outdoors, sleep and two more
- Meals
- A snack is served in the afternoon program after rest time
- Outdoors
- Outdoor playtime in the playscape following rest time and snack
- Sleep
- Afternoon program includes an hour of quiet rest time after stories
- Schedule
- Half-day morning program (8:45am–1:15pm) with an optional Extended Day Program add-on (afternoon care to 3:30, 4:30, or 5:30pm); offered as 4-day (Mon-Thurs) or 5-day (Mon-Fri) contracts
- Closed
- Same holidays and breaks as Seattle Public Schools
How they teach
Play-based and emergent curriculum
“NDS is a play-based preschool with a balance of both emergent and theme-based curricula.”
Who cares for your child
Hope (Drama Club Instructor (Make Believe Productions)), 10 years in early childhood.
Details
- Phone
- (206) 447-2377
- Address
- 7219 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, 98115
- License
- PL-831
- Established
- 1985
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
Children per adult
- Children per adult — Checked August 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/about.html
How they teach
- Approach — Checked August 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/about.html
- Approach — Checked August 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/learning.html
Who cares for your child
What it costs
- Monthly tuition — Checked June 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/tuition.html
- Application fee — Checked June 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/admissions.html
State record
From Washington DCYF’s published reports, last checked November 3, 2026.
Washington’s four risk levels, highest first: Immediate, Serious, Short Term, Long Term. Deadlines from DCYF procedure PRO 10.1.21.
Ages
A day here
- Meals, Sleep — Checked August 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/afternoon.html
- Outdoors — Checked July 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/afternoon.html
- Hours, Calendar, Closed — Checked June 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/about.html
- Schedule — Checked June 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/tuition.html
Details
- Phone — Checked April 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org
- Website — Checked July 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org
- Address — Checked June 2026 data.wa.gov
- License — Checked March 2026 data.wa.gov
- Ages on the license — Checked September 2026 findchildcarewa.org
- Ages they serve, Established — Checked June 2026 newdiscoveryschool.org/about.html
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 data.seattle.gov
Medium means the middle half of Seattle-area’s 855 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 41 to 115 children. Small is 6 to 40; large is 116 to 323.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.