Owner on campus daily. Teachers who stay. A curriculum you can look up tonight.
For children six weeks through Kinder Bridge.
A private preschool is independently operated — not run by a public school district. Private preschools set their own curriculum, schedule, philosophy, and tuition. But "private" alone doesn't tell you much: some private preschools are corporate franchises with regional directors and printed-from-a-template curriculum; others are family-owned, designed for the families who live in the community around them.
Grace is the second kind. One school. One owner. One campus. Built for the families of Aledo, not scaled across a dozen states.
Parents in Aledo search for this in different words depending on the age they're looking at:
Dawn Wright founded Grace in 2019 and is on campus daily. When you call the school, you're likely to reach her. When you tour, she's the one walking you through. Not a regional director you'll never meet. Not a hotline you get routed through. The person whose name is on the door is the person who greets you at the door.
Read more about the family behind Grace.
Ask on any tour: "Who owns this location, and where is that person right now?" The answer tells you almost everything about whether decisions get made with your kid in mind or on a spreadsheet in another state.
Grace uses Frog Street — a research-based early childhood curriculum. It's not "proprietary." It's not a name only Grace uses. It's a real, published curriculum with a research foundation you can Google tonight, covering language and literacy, math, social-emotional development, and physical development in age-appropriate blocks. Read more about Frog Street at Grace.
Ask what curriculum a school uses. If the answer is a proprietary name only that school uses ("The XYZ Method™"), there's nothing for you to read tonight. If the answer is a real, Googleable curriculum, you can see the research yourself. That difference is the difference between a school that's confident in its work and a school that's confident in its marketing.
Grace is intentionally the kind of school where your Pre-K teacher remembers your older child's name. Teacher tenure is one of the strongest quality signals in early childhood — kids form real attachment to consistent adults, and that attachment is what makes learning safe to do. Dawn hires slowly and invests in teachers who plan to be here.
Ask on any tour: how long has the teacher in the classroom my child would enter been at the school? The answer matters more than any credential.
Grace's traditions were built here. The connections with Aledo ISD, the local charities we support, the field trips that end at the Aledo library — none of that came from a corporate binder. Dawn's seven-plus years on the Aledo Education Foundation Board keep those connections real. When Grace children walk into Aledo ISD kindergarten, they walk in already knowing this town.
Read more about the neighborhoods Grace serves: Parks of Aledo · Walsh Ranch · Willow Park · Morningstar.
Grace is a Christian, family-owned preschool. The academic day runs on Frog Street, with Christian rhythms woven around it: mealtime prayer daily, Bible Wednesday weekly, and Christmas and Easter observed for what they mean. Grace is non-denominational — families from Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, non-denominational, Catholic, and other traditions are all here, and families who aren't especially religious are welcome too.
That private + family-owned + faith-based intersection is unclaimed by anyone else in the Aledo market. Read more on the Christian preschool page.
One thing "private" doesn't have to mean: outside the system. Grace is a licensed Texas child-care center under HHSC Chapter 746 — with routine unannounced inspections and a public inspection record at childcare.hhs.texas.gov. Some private programs in Texas operate under a private-school exemption; Grace doesn't. Why that matters: Licensed vs. license-exempt child care in Texas →
Read more about how we think about safety at Grace — cameras, low ratios, secure entry, real HHSC oversight.
Aledo ISD kindergarten readiness is a named outcome we design toward — the letters, sounds, sight words, early math, and social-emotional confidence Aledo ISD kindergarten teachers expect from incoming students. Our Kinder Bridge program is a private transitional kindergarten that sends summer-born kids and children who need another year into Aledo ISD kindergarten as some of the most confident in the room.
Grace is the only preschool in Aledo that is simultaneously private AND family-owned AND faith-based AND full-day AND year-round AND running Frog Street AND serving six weeks through Kinder Bridge AND welcoming every family. The private + family-owned + faith-based intersection is unclaimed by any other program in the market.
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Dawn personally walks every tour. Sixty seconds to book, and you'll know within twenty minutes whether Grace is right for your family.
Schedule a TourStraight answers about the "private" question — and what it should actually mean.
Yes. Grace is a private, family-owned preschool in Aledo, Texas — not a franchise, not a chain, not a public program. Independently operated and owned by Dawn Wright, on campus daily since 2019. Serving children six weeks through Kinder Bridge, full-day and year-round.
A private preschool is independently operated, not run by a public school district. Private preschools set their own curriculum, schedule, philosophy, and tuition. Some private preschools are franchises (owned by corporate parents, with regional directors); others are family-owned. Grace is family-owned — one school, one owner, one campus.
Not much technically — many programs are both. What matters is what's actually happening in the classroom. A drop-in center may focus on care. A private preschool runs a real curriculum (in Grace's case, Frog Street) with age-appropriate developmental milestones and named teachers who stay. Grace is licensed as a child-care center by Texas HHSC and runs preschool programming inside it.
No. Grace is a single school, family-owned by Dawn Wright and her family. There is no corporate parent, no regional director, no printed-from-a-template curriculum, no location #42 in a national chain. The owner is in the building every day.
Yes. Dawn founded Grace in 2019 and is on campus daily. When you call the school, you're likely to reach her. When you tour, she's the one walking you through. The person whose name is on the door is the person who greets you at the door.
Frog Street — a research-based early-childhood curriculum you can Google tonight. It covers language and literacy, math, social-emotional development, and physical development in age-appropriate blocks. Ask any preschool for the name of their curriculum. If the answer is "proprietary" or a name only that school uses, there's nothing for you to read tonight.
Yes. Grace is intentionally the kind of school where your Pre-K teacher remembers your older child's name. Teacher tenure is one of the strongest quality signals in early childhood. Dawn hires slowly and invests in teachers who plan to be here. Ask about tenure on tour.
Grace keeps ratios low by design — often meaningfully lower than the Texas HHSC minimums for each age group. Exact ratios by classroom are walked through on tour.
Six weeks through Kinder Bridge. That covers infants, toddlers, twos, preschool, Pre-K, and Kinder Bridge (our private transitional kindergarten). Full range in one home; siblings can stay together.
Yes. Grace Learning Tree is a licensed Texas child-care center under HHSC Chapter 746, with routine unannounced inspections and a public inspection record at childcare.hhs.texas.gov. Grace does not operate under a private-school exemption; the state's full safety framework applies here.
Yes — Grace is a Christian, family-owned preschool. The academic day runs on Frog Street, with Christian rhythms woven around it: mealtime prayer daily, Bible Wednesday weekly, Christmas and Easter observed for what they mean. Non-denominational; families of every tradition welcome. See our Christian preschool page for the full picture.
Aledo ISD kindergarten readiness is a named outcome we design toward — letters, sounds, sight words, early math, and the social-emotional confidence to walk into a big kindergarten room feeling ready. Our Pre-K and Kinder Bridge programs are built around what Aledo ISD kindergarten teachers actually expect.
Yes. Full-day, Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, twelve months a year. A real differentiator among faith-based and boutique private options in Aledo, many of which close all summer or send everyone home mid-afternoon.
Through Brightwheel — the parent app Grace uses for real-time updates. Feedings, diaper changes, naps, milestones, photos, and quick teacher notes come through your phone as the day happens. Especially loved by first-time parents in the infant year.
Tuition is shared during your tour so we can walk you through it in the context of the classroom your child would enter and what's included. It's not on the website intentionally — the tour is where the full picture makes sense. Schedule a tour.
