The Top 3 Childcare Centres in Point Cook, VIC (3030)

Guardian Childcare and Education Point Cook West at 24 Gramercy Boulevard holds an Exceeding NQS rating across all seven quality areas, issued December 2022 after an earlier Exceeding result in June 2017. The regulator last visited in September 2026, and no enforcement actions have been issued in the past two years.

The centre has recently been refurbished, with three separate outdoor areas for different age groups: children can ride bikes, cross a bridge, play at a creek bed and tend a community garden. Centre pets teach children about responsibility and caring for others. The indoor learning spaces are filled with natural light, with each room equipped for the developmental stage of the children using it.

The program is personalised and play-based, with art, gardening, music and French language classes, a Bush Kinder program, an intergenerational program and a cooking program. The Victorian Government's Free Kinder program is delivered within long day care hours.

Guardian's daily fee ($193.81 to 35 months, $189.64 from 36 months) lists six inclusions on Starting Blocks; the centre describes meals, nappies, sunscreen and its parent communication app among them. Confirm current inclusions directly with the centre.

Guardian Point Cook West ranks first among five Exceeding centres whose ratings fall within a year of each other, so the rating ties them all. Against AMIGA Montessori Point Cook, fees, capacity and hours come out level (each is cheaper in some age bands and dearer in others, and 140 places against 132 is under our 15% threshold), so parent reviews decide: 4.8 on Google from 96 reviews against 4.7 from 100. Against Goodstart Shaftsbury Boulevard, its 140 places to 98 decide it. It takes babies from six weeks and had places open across the week when we checked.

AMIGA Montessori Point Cook is on Boardwalk Boulevard, approved for 132 places and open 7:00am to 6:30pm on weekdays, 52 weeks a year. Its own site lists structured Montessori programs for children from birth to six years, with a government-funded kindergarten program run inside the same full-day, 10-hour and 9-hour sessions at no extra charge.

The register lists the service as Point Cook Montessori Centre; it trades as AMIGA Montessori Point Cook, one of several AMIGA centres in Melbourne's west. Its February 2023 assessment returned Exceeding, as the August 2016 one did, with four of seven quality areas above the standard. A May 2026 regulatory visit led to no enforcement actions, and no conditions apply to the approval.

Starting Blocks lists $196.54 a day to 24 months and $185.62 from 25 months, with eight inclusions. The centre's own page prices a full day from 3 years at $193.67 and gives $185.62 as its 9-hour session, so confirm which applies before comparing. The centre page mentions fresh meals daily and programs in sustainability, yoga, music, dance and sport.

AMIGA Montessori Point Cook is second. Its Exceeding rating ties the other four Exceeding centres in the suburb, and against Guardian everything the method weighs comes out level except reviews, where 4.7 from 100 sits just behind 4.8 from 96. Against Goodstart Shaftsbury Boulevard the fee comparison is level, Goodstart being cheaper in most age bands but listing three fewer inclusions, and AMIGA's 132 places against 98 decide it. Its Montessori program is level with the others under our method. Check the fee for children over three, where its own page and the register differ.

Goodstart Point Cook Shaftsbury Boulevard sits on the corner of Shaftsbury Boulevard and Dunnings Road, near Point Cook Town Centre. It is approved for 98 places and opens 6:45am to 6:15pm on weekdays, with nursery, toddler and kindergarten rooms and a government-funded kindergarten program inside long day care hours.

Its December 2023 assessment returned Exceeding, as the August 2019 one did, with four of seven quality areas above the standard. The regulator last visited in October 2025 and no enforcement actions have been issued in the past two years. Its own site lists a long-standing team, many with more than ten years at the centre, and a daily language program led by multilingual educators.

At $186.93 a day to 35 months and $177.95 from 36 months, it is the least expensive of all three ranked centres up to 24 months and from 36 months (AMIGA is lower from 25 to 35 months), though it lists five inclusions on the register against eight at AMIGA and six at Guardian.

Goodstart Shaftsbury Boulevard takes third among the five Exceeding centres. It is cheaper than both centres above it in most age bands but smaller, at 98 places, and capacity is what separates it from them. It ranks above Amiga Montessori Alamanda on capacity (98 places against 70, fees level once inclusions are counted) and above Milestones Point Cook on fees ($186.93 and $177.95 with five inclusions against $200.50 with one). Its 6:45am to 6:15pm day is within half an hour of the others at each end, which our method treats as level.