Legacy Academy of Sugarloaf, Lawrenceville | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

If you’re considering placing your child in this daycare, please read this review before deciding.

Let me start by saying this daycare started out decent. My baby girl started about a year ago when she was 3 months old. My wife and I toured several daycares before we chose Legacy. Our baby girl is our world and we wanted the best for her.

My daughter has had between 10-15 teachers in the time she was there, along with about 5 different directors. That in itself is a red flag. The large turnover in staff has lead to several errors in communication and us feeling like we never knew who was taking care of our child.

My daughter would come home weekly with diaper rashes. One rash was so severe it became blistered and we had to take her to an Urgent Care for treatment. I found myself constantly asking her teachers to apply the diaper cream that I provided during every diaper change, but it was seldom used.

On multiple occasions my wife or myself would arrive to pick her up and she’d be crying while teachers are blatantly ignoring her. On one occasion specifically, I arrived to no one in the classrooms so I didn’t know where my daughter was. I asked the front desk employee where everyone was and was informed they were outside playing on the playground. I went outside and my daughter’s teacher was sitting on the slide while my daughter was standing directly in front of her crying her eyes out, obviously upset. Her teacher just sat there with her arms crossed staring at my daughter with no attempts to console her. To make matters worse, there were two other teachers standing around my daughter as well seemingly chatting with the teacher who was sitting on the slide, meaning there were three teachers letting a 14 month old baby sob right in front of them. Babies and all children for that matter require love and care. If you can’t hug or pat a child on the back while they are crying, or attempt to console them at all, childcare is not for you.

A few weeks ago, several of the babies in my daughter’s class went home throwing up milk, including mine. My wife found out a few days later the teachers in her classroom thought milk could be left out on the counter all day?! All of the children were drinking spoiled milk for days. At this point, I fully believe the daycare is just hiring warm bodies to watch our children.

This past Friday was my daughter’s last day at Legacy Academy. My wife arrived to find her screaming and crying while a teacher was sitting on her phone. She had a bad diaper rash (that was not there when she dropped her off) and was CLEARLY sick. Her eyes were red and puffy, she was burning up with a fever, and she had snot matted to her face. At no point during the day were we informed that she wasn’t well. My wife had to go to three different rooms to collect all of her belongings and found her sippy cup in an empty classroom with milk that had been served for lunch 6-7 hours prior still in it. My daughter’s class is only served milk at breakfast and lunch. Lunch is served around 11/12 and my daughter was picked up at 6pm. The children only drink out of the one sippy cup that we provide. Her sippy cup was filled with spoiled milk meaning she was not given anything to drink for 6-7 hours. That is NEGLECT.

As my wife left, there was another parent that was visibly upset telling the director that her son would not be returning to the school.

Avoid this place if you can. It’s not the daycare it once was. My wife and I met with and voiced concerns to directors and teachers and nothing ever changed.

Hopefully the owner sees this and realizes new staff is needed or the current staff needs some serious training. Writing this review is worth it if I can save even one child from being treated the way my child has the last several months.

This place is terrible. It is a revolving door to the point teachers change daily and Directors change weekly. There is no systems in place they are just simply open. Parents are out of the loop of these changes as well as incidents with your child. When you ask questions about situations it’s presented as your being hostile instead of trying to resolve issues. This past weekend was the last straw of the many incidents. The new director (never meet her) claim she called to inform of an incident but she did not. When informed that she was indeed lying she attempted to dance around the issue and put the blame on someone else. The only way we knew about the situation because it was a paper with our child name on it staple together laying on the front desk. When questioned about the incident it was the least important concern. Was advise because she didn’t write the report she didn’t know but she did staple the report and sign off on the report. She then began to get on the phone to talk about the situation to someone that couldn’t assist with a resolution instead of speaking to parents standing in front of her. Very unprofessional to say the least.
Your child will share diapers no matter how many you send with explanation to not do that. Which creates an issue for children with skin issues as well as cause another parents to have to replace diapers sooner than they should. I wouldn’t recommend this place to any parent. The great teachers that have came and left also confirm how unfair they are treated. I will be pushing this issue. This place should not be open under its current leadership. When inspection times comes they freak out rushing to handle things that should be implemented on a daily.