Cornerstone Christian Academy is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 661 Castle Dr, # B, Charleston, Illinois IL. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Cornerstone Christian Academy receives mixed reviews with significant safety concerns. Positive reviews praise the staff's warmth, educational curriculum including Bible, sign language and Spanish, and child development. However, multiple recent reviews document serious incidents involving bullying, physical injuries, inadequate teacher response, and alleged failures to report and address abuse.
This review is based on FACTS and EVIDENCE with camera footage. We pulled out our kids from cornerstone due to constant bullying resulting in physical injuries. First incident, a kid threw a toy axe at our son’s face and landed on his eye. He had swelling and redness for days. Second incident, the same kid punched our son on his back and arm close to his head that resulted him to fall off his chair from the impact of this kid’s punch. This kid has also been saying foul comments regarding our son. The teacher’s remark is “this is just a normal kid behavior and he is just being very touchy” The parents remark According to the teacher is “our son is just being a kid” This kid has been physically hurting other kids in the past and there’s no verbal and written warning. Cornerstone expect the other kids to toughen up, stand up to this kid and take all the beatings. Our son is kind, helpful and caring. His kindness was reciprocated with emotional and physical injuries. Cornerstone failed to ensure the safety of the kids. The teacher is incompetent, enabler of bullying and incapable. These incidents are ALL recorded in the camera footage. The above statement is based on FACTS and EVIDENCE.
They failed to report abuse & neglect, then fail to address it for over 8 months while continuing to employ the teacher at fault. They continue to employee a woman who admitted to abusing a child! (4/14/2025)
My son has gone here for 3 years. I can not song their praises loud enough! The staff is loving and teach the kids so much from the basics to the Bible to sign language and Spanish. There is a real reason the wait list is often long...because us parents that have kids there never want them to leave!!
Great preschool. My son has learned a lot in less than a year. And the staff is friendly.
Awful. Make sure you fully read every document they give you before signing.