Grow With Us Learning Academy, Fort Walton Beach

Category: Child Care Agency

Grow With Us Learning Academy is a Fort Walton Beach child care agency and nursery school. The company describes itself as a locally owned preschool. Its website names sister centers in Navarre, Crestview and Pace, plus a couple more here in town.

Fort Walton Beach had 21,097 residents in 2025, per the Census Bureau, and sits in Okaloosa County. The median home in town was built in 1972, per the American Community Survey (2024).

Families come here for full days of early learning. The website lists nursery, toddler, and VPK and preschool rooms. The academy says it uses two different curriculums, and it states that its classrooms keep low ratios.

The teaching style, as the school describes it, leans on hands-on activities matched to each age. Staff aim to treat every child as their own person, since kids pick things up at their own speed. The academy says its teachers try to stay upbeat, encouraging and creative.

It is open from 6am to 6pm on weekdays.

The center holds a 4.8 rating across 46 Google reviews. Parents mention most often how warm and patient the teachers are, and how happy their kids are to show up. Several also point to clean, tidy rooms and a director who makes time for parents' questions.

If you just moved to Fort Walton Beach and need a spot for a little one, you can join the online waiting list for this center, or for any of the group's other locations, before your start date.