Almansor Early Education Center

Almansor Early Education Center is a daycare in South Pasadena, CA, located at 1955 Fremont Ave Bldg G. It is part of the Institute for the Redesign of Learning, an organization that began in 1974 when Nancy J. Lavelle, Ph.D., founded the Almansor Education Center with four students in a church on Almansor Street in Alhambra, California. The Early Childhood Education program serves infants and young children as one of six programs operated by the organization, which serves over 2,300 children, students, and clients annually throughout the greater Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley communities.

In 1988, the Institute moved to a former elementary school in South Pasadena, where the Almansor Academy and the Early Childhood Education program continued to grow. The center works with families and supports individualized learning approaches designed to help each child develop at their own pace. The organization's clinical services program provides mental health support for children, youth, and adults ages 2 to 21, with services available in English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Armenian, and Tagalog.

The center sits on Fremont Avenue near Oneonta Knoll, about half a mile from South Pasadena Middle School and Holy Family School, and within a short distance of Huntington Drive and Fair Oaks Avenue.

The center holds a rating of four out of five based on reviews from families in the South Pasadena area, where it has operated as part of an organization that has served the community for over fifty years. Its connection to the Institute for the Redesign of Learning gives families access to a broader continuum of programs that support children from infancy through adulthood.