Little Sprouts Early Education & Child Care in Melrose, Melrose | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

We did not have a good experience at Little Sprouts. Our son previously attended Bright Horizons in Charlestown, MA and we thought Little Sprouts would be similar. The teachers were very kind and we could see that they enjoyed being with the children, but we found the activities were not really engaging our son, and he did not integrate well into the classroom. He went to school reluctantly each day (which is truly terrible to watch as a parent). He was recently potty trained, but doing very well, and we found he was regressing at Little Sprouts – he did not seem to feel very comfortable using the potty there. I also noticed that the school serves the same snack every day (always Goldfish). Maybe that is normal, but at Bright Horizons we had a very varied snack menu each month and the center made a big effort to ensure the snacks had fruit, vegetables, lots of color and lots of variety. At Little Sprouts were were also told many days that our son was pushing other children (which I’m sure was the case), but now that we have switched him to Mi Pequena Academia here in Melrose he is so happy and engaged that he has never again had this kind of behavior. I cannot say that our experience at Little Sprouts was bad, but it was not great – and for the price of tuition and what we want for our son – we are expecting great. We decided to switch our son out of Little Sprouts after 1 month because it was not a good fit, and it was very much the right decision.

We had very bad experience with this daycare, our older kid went to bright horizon, we thought little sprout would provide similar level of care and education, unfortunately it is no where close. The teachers were not qualified, very rude to parents and kids, one of the teachers yelled at other kids in front of us just because the kid was trying to talk to us. Our kid came home crying everyday and wouldn’t go to the day care, said was scared and the teacher was scaring them. When picking kids up, the teachers don’t have any interaction with parents. The fee is almost the same as bright horizon, but the staff is terrible, they do not care about kids or have any compassion for kids, those teachers are not qualified and they shouldn’t be working in childcare industry!

We absolutely love Little Sprouts Melrose! Sam and Rena do a great job here. The communication is always detailed and consistent, the daily activities are so much fun and engaging. Sydney and Isabella from Toddler 3 classroom are really nice teachers. They take such good care of our daughter and our daughter loves both of them. She has adapted so well and loves to go to school everyday. We couldn’t be happier with our decision to send our little one to this wonderful school.