"Nice, respectful staff. Clean environment"
"La Petite Academy has not lived up to our expectations primarily due to shortness of Staff members and lack of Education taught to the children achieving lifetime developmental milestones skills."
"Very caring and loving environment. Would like to see more focus on curriculum execution and followup with parents on progress. Better grounds management. Some areas of playground need sod. Children come home filthy with dirt everywhere on clothes/hair. Please sod everywhere on playground so children aren’t playing in dirt. Please keep kids clean and don’t allow them to come home filthy after playground/class activities."
"Since Mary Marietta left, the center has gradually become a less than satisfactory place to bring my child. There have been a great number of staff changes and families leavinf and many empty classrooms. The director seems in over her head and the children are suffering."
"Go down on the price as the child moves up and try to keep your staff kids can not learn and build a bond with the teacher if they keep changing"
"I love the school. It is very welcoming and clean. The brightwheel app and the watch me grow app make me feel extremely comfortable leaving my child there."
"I truly am grateful for the lead teachers at this school, particularly my children’s current teachers. They are invested in my children and genuinely care about them. All of my concerns are taken to heart and addressed. I’m not as satisfied with the aids or assistants to the main teachers. However my main concern is the turnover rate and how that will affect my toddler in the long run. Seems like all the teachers my child adored have left and/or are leaving. We get notifications regularly about a change in staff."
"Poor management. Lack of communication . Under staffed. Teachers seem angry and annoyed. Zero curriculum."
"This school met all of our expectations the first two years. Since the previous director left this spring this school has steadily declined. Teachers appear under qualified, uncommitted to their students and the caring atmosphere is gone. Teachers act more like babysitters and not as teachers. My child has come home and displayed un becoming behaviors like yelling/ harshly speaking to baby dolls mimicking how children are spoken to at school. Because of teacher turnover, the caretaker/child ratio is larger than previous years. The interior appearance of the school is lacking...carpets/ mini couches stained and faded. Whole school could use new interior paint. Exterior roof fence buckling, fencing is swaying. Marquee sign out of date with peeling messages. Over hanging tree on sidewalk to entrance."
"Our son has not been the easy student. LaPetite is our 5th school, and he began daycare at 4 months old. I believe that will give a little insight to how rough it has been for us. It was a breath of fresh air to find a facility willing to communicate and work with us. All I ever wanted was truth, reason, and ideas to help find a better path for him. LaPetite offered that path. It may have taken a lot of tears, hugs, and texts, but we've gotten to a point where things are comfortable. Thank you for all of the effort and time."
"I felt like the transition from one Director to another director was rocky and she was not given the support she needed. There were supposed to be 3 management members but for over 4 months there was only 2. I felt like they couldn’t devote enough attention to us."
"Overall a positive experience."
"overall the school has been a great place for my child to grow seeing that this is their first time in daycare. i see a change in the behavior and socialization which is good."
"I really like that they are concerned about finding tools to help each individual child and that they really care about children."
"Directors are very nice and seem genuine. Curriculum and regular feedback on progress is not communicated as regularly as I would like."