Caterpillar Academy Daycare is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 5430 Palm Ave, Hialeah, Florida FL. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Caterpillar Academy receives overwhelmingly positive feedback from most parents, with particular praise for caring staff, educational activities, cleanliness, and parent communication. However, one parent reported a significantly negative experience involving medication administration issues, inadequate meal supervision, dismissive management, and difficulty retrieving purchased supplies.
I wish I didn't have to give any stars, but I've had nothing but a horrible experience with Caterpillar Academy. Vpk experience: I trusted my sons father is choosing this school because his daughter attended this school years ago. From the first day I was not happy. My son has a condition which requires he drinks his medication from the water bottle i provided which I informed them. The water bottle would come back full never touched. My son came home saying everyday the teacher spent the day telling him to SHUT UP because the babies were sleeping. My sons lunch box came back full and I was told he was eating his lunch when I asked my son he stated he hadn't ate. So moving forward the lunch box started coming home empty so I don't even know if they were throwing the food out. The Director of this Daycare is very hard to talk to she brushes you off. When I tried to explain what's going on she didn't even want to hear it. Unacceptable! One day I went to go pick up my child and was ringing the bell it took forever for someone to come to the door and when she did she was laughing saying Oh sorry we thought you were an inspector( that was the last straw for me) I work for the county so my uniform confused them. I spoke to his dad and informed him what is going on and withdrew him from Caterpillar Academy i have him not in a Public School with a great teacher who is giving him his water bottle and write to me and informs me if he ate or anything else I need to know. This school actually cares about my son and respects his condition. I would never recommend Caterpillar Academy to anyone. I have tried to go back for his schools supplies that I bought so many things and extra on the list I only got back his blanket his pillow and his pencil pouch. I called and informed her I needed everything back I was told its in a backroom and their teaching and they don't have time for that to contact the owner. I have decided to leave things like that because I am just happy my son is out of there. I am not the one to do this but when it comes to kids I think we need to work as a team to inform other parents to be aware of locations like this.
Found this daycare by chance, and I am overall very happy with the caregivers, director and cleanliness. When a child first enters a daycare, they can be expected to get sick frequently, since their immune systems are weak and have not been previously exposed. Luckily for our family, this has been infrequent. I can also access the cameras at any time, and have been able to see what our children are up to. They typically do not get 'thinking time', but when they have I've always understood why. I also feel that my children are excelling and will be ready for grade school in no time.
My daughter has being for 2 years now. The staff is wonderful, she loves them. She has learned so much in a short time. They do alot of activities with the children. Absolutely great
After day 3 of daycare my daughter was diagnosed with croup day 6 of daycare she is in hospital with flu, ear infection , pneumonia , & RSV we are now in day 5 ICU.
Aquí quiero avisarles a los padres actuales y a aquellos que piensan en traer a este sitio a sus hijos, que se mantengan alejados. Están pidiendo ahora reviews positivos para cubrir todo lo que esta pasando en este sitio. Mi hijo de dos años, que en este curso ha tenido ya mas de cuatro maestras ya que hay una inestabilidad horrible. Las maestras sin experiencia de como lidiar con estos niños, me han mandado a mi hijo con mordidas, pañales sucios, le han sacado su ropa de la mochila, y de nada de esto les cause un problema al daycare. Resulta que siempre me envían fotos de mi hijo participando en todas las actividades sin ningún comentario negativo solo que es un niño muy activo, normal para un niño de su edad. El martes hable con la directora para hacer el pago y no me hizo ningún comentario. Al otro día, recibo una llamada de ella misma que a mi hijo lo estaban expulsando “porque no podemos con el” y solo me dan dos días para buscar otro daycare. Esto son las cosas que pasan cuando operas un centro de cuidados a niños y el personal no sabe lidiar con niños, no saben ni ingles las maestras para enseñar a estos niños, no tienen tacto para educarlos, y menos paciencia. En menos de un año, mi hijo esta saliendo de este daycare PEOR que como empezó. Hoy fue mi hijo, pero mañana puede ser el suyo.