La Petite Academy of Castle Rock, Castle Rock | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

Literally felt like a bad parent taking my daughter there. My daughter is 4 and came from a Montessori school with no issues. After less than a full week at this school I have decided to transfer her elsewhere. They have cameras that parents have access too and I would regularly check, and all I saw was chaos the teachers had zero control over the children and often weren’t paying very good attention or just didn’t care. I witnessed one child sitting on another child’s head for a solid minute and the teacher hadn’t seen it at all. Not the amount of times I’ve seen children unsupervised with small objects in their mouth. I wonder how I’m noticing thing while working my job but they aren’t noticing when it is part of their job. My main complaint is that I didn’t see what happened but I saw my child holding an ice pack to her face. When picking her up I asked the teacher if anything happened and how her day was, all I was told was that she didn’t nap, I then mentioned that I SAW her with an ice pack and that’s when the teacher decides to tell me my child and another girl got in an argument and scratched each other. But that she asked my 4 yr old if she wanted to let me know and my child said no so she didn’t feel the need to tell me. -.- I was then informed by another teacher incident reports are only made if the child has a mark on them. When I told her that my child did have a mark (a tiny cut on her cheek) I was told I could email the director who was on vacation regarding the teachers error. Not to mention they lost my child’s blanket and I was able to find it but for some reason the people who work there couldn’t and when my child came home with no shoelaces I asked the teacher and she had no idea my child was even missing shoelaces (another perfectly safe object for children to play with unsupervised ??). I feel very lied to by the director megan about what kind of a “school” she was running. My child didn’t learn anything the entire time she was there all the kids do is run wild and maybe 30 minutes of craft time that is also very chaotic as the children are in control and not the teachers. I also witnessed the teachers updating the parent app inaccurately for example my child had barely gotten her food and was marked “age all her lunch”. Did not trust my child there at all. There’s also a blonde teacher there (don’t know her name) who must not have seen me walk in to pick up my child because she was yelling at all those kids so loudly and so rudely I would have lost it if I wasn’t scared of my child getting the repercussions. As you can tell very very displeased with this childcare facility. Very grateful to be removing my child.

If i could give them 0 stars i 100% would. My son was there for 8 months and i felt guilty dropping him off there. Not only is the place absolutely disgusting, they have no curriculum to prepare children for Kindergarten and they have a high amount of staff turnover. Absolutely 0 consistency. I will also mention that teachers failed to check my child in after his grandmother dropped him off, so when i went to go pick him up, they told me he was never there. When i started to panic and my mother confirmed that she had dropped him off, the Director Heidi had told me “it would be a 5 dollar charge for not checking him in”. 0 sense of urgency for my child’s whereabouts, she was irritated with my concern of where my child was. District manager had her call for “an apology so we could build trust” and she actually called with the excuse that she just didn’t see his face that day. They also let anyone in, they don’t ID which is extremely unsettling as anyone can walk in. Due to never having consistent staff members, they let anyone check your children out. Please if you have kiddos. Take them anywhere BUT here.