The Top 3 Childcare Centres in Noble Park, VIC (3174)

Little Stars at 28 Joy Parade is approved for just 28 children, by some way smaller than anything else ranked on this page, and takes children from birth to school age across three program rooms. It opens 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays and runs a funded four-year-old kindergarten inside long day care hours.

Its July 2026 assessment is the most recent in the suburb: Meeting in every quality area, as in January 2023, under the same operator, who has run the service since August 2019. A June 2026 visit by the regulator led to no enforcement action, and there are no conditions on the approval.

The fee is $158.00 a day at every age, and the register lists eight inclusions against it.

Little Stars ranks first because its parent reviews settle a split with Story House. Their ratings are nine months apart, which our method treats as a tie. Little Stars wins on fees, $158.00 with eight listed inclusions against $165.00 with none; Story House wins on size, 92 places against 28. Reviews then decide, and 4.9 from 53 against 4.4 from 55 is a gap of half a star, enough on its own. The size is the thing to weigh: a 28-place centre means a short list of spots.

Story House Early Learning Noble Park is on Chandler Road, part of the national Story House group, and is approved for 92 places. It opens 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays and takes children from six weeks to preschool age, with a program built around storytelling, dramatic play, music and the arts.

Its October 2025 assessment was Meeting overall, with partnerships with families and communities rated above the standard. The regulator last visited in September 2025; there are no conditions on the approval and no enforcement action in the past two years.

The daily fee is $165.00 at every age, above both other ranked centres, and the register lists no inclusions against it, so ask what meals and nappies it covers.

Story House is second. It led this page before Little Stars was reassessed in July 2026; with the two ratings now nine months apart, the comparison runs on the other criteria, and the result is a split that Little Stars' half-star Google lead decides. Story House stays well ahead of Kinderworld, whose October 2023 rating is two years older at the same level. In its favour: 92 places, a twelve-hour day and general vacancies this week. Against it: the highest fee of the three, with nothing itemised.

Kinderworld Early Learning Centre has operated on Dunblane Road since 1988. It is approved for 60 places and opens 6:30am to 6:00pm on weekdays, taking children from six weeks to six years, with three- and four-year-old kindergarten integrated into long day care hours and an on-site chef.

A new operator took over the service approval on 27 July 2026. Both of its Meeting ratings, from October 2023 and March 2019, were issued before that, so neither has yet tested the service under its current management. The regulator visited in September 2026; there are no conditions on the approval and no enforcement action in the past two years.

At $145.00 a day at every age it is the least expensive of the three, with eight inclusions listed: afternoon tea, breakfast, education programs, excursions and incursions, lunch, morning tea, nappies and other meals.

Kinderworld takes third from a split with the Paddy O'Donoghue Centre, whose July 2024 rating ties its own. Kinderworld wins on fees, $145.00 with eight listed inclusions against $149.70 with three; Paddy O'Donoghue is twice the size at 120 places. Reviews decide it: 4.7 from 62 against 4.5 from 35. Weigh the July 2026 change of operator, which came after both of its ratings.