Creme de la Creme School of Fishers Offers Quality Care & Education for Families
There is likely no more important choice working parents face than finding child care. It’s often a decision weighed between offerings and cost, and ultimately sacrificing one for the other.
Leading the Creme de la Creme School of Fishers, Executive Director Sherry Carlton is attempting to change that.
“The truth is that child care morphs to preschool and then early education,” says Carlton, who will mark eight years at the Fishers location this fall. “Here at our school, we pride ourselves on being a premium child care facility — and one that is financially accessible to working families.”
Creme of Fishers offers care for children from six weeks to 12 years old, including infant and toddler day care, preschool, pre-K, kindergarten, before- and after-school care, school break care and the Great Outdoors summer camp.
The Fishers facility is one of only two in the state. The other is in Carmel.
“For the most part, our infants and toddlers are in their own space in our school,” Carlton says. “But as we get more into the actual learning years, each of our age groups have learning spaces they get to rotate through — so they are never just sitting in one room all day.”
This is, in fact, the reason Carlton came to the school herself.
“I was an elementary school teacher and the mother of a 2-year-old, and I wanted a better opportunity for my child than what was being offered where I had previously taken him,” she says.
When she saw the building being constructed at what is now the Fishers location, she felt it was fate.
“I interviewed and started as a teacher,” she adds. “For my son, I wanted him to learn and have fun at school. Especially right at the beginning, you want them to find joy in learning. You want to build that great foundation.”
Carlton later enrolled another of her children at the school. And as for herself?
“I just stayed,” she says. “It has continued to be a perfect space for me — and I know that our school is the best. Just the very best.”
At Creme, “twos” — as they are referred to — experience Spanish, art, gross motor movement and music.
“One really great thing about our physical building is that we have a gymnasium,” Carlton says. “Most schools do not have this option, and most parents would agree that during an Indiana winter, a gym is the best place for little kids to run off energy.”
Children ages 3 and older are introduced to STEM and culinary labs, spend time in the facility’s bowling alley, and use the gym for creative movement.
“Day to day, they are getting enriched in all those rotations,” Carlton says. “In STEM, they are learning how things move. In art, they learn how to do lines and dots and what that all means.”
One of the most important aspects, Carlton adds, is social development.
“We also accommodate students who have speech therapy, for instance,” she says. “Those providers can come in and be with the child in the building, and that really helps when you are a parent juggling kids, careers and life in general.”
The facility is located at 13372 Bent Grass Lane in Fishers. For more information, visit cremedelacreme.com.
