Eastern Child Development Center is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 5100 Eastern S.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico NM. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Eastern Child Development Center receives overwhelmingly positive reviews praising staff warmth, child development support, and bilingual education, though one detailed negative review documents serious safety, hygiene, and communication concerns including inadequate supervision, poor sanitation, and failure to address a child's special needs.
I highly recommend Learning Curve Daycare! They are incredibly attentive and welcoming. The staff creates a warm and caring environment where children feel safe and loved. They incorporate reading times that foster a love for books and learning, and they focus on teaching essential skills that are crucial for early development. I appreciate how they encourage and support each child's growth and development skills. Overall, a fantastic place for your little ones to learn, grow, and thrive! We are very thankful for the staff entirely !!
This school is nothing like it was last year. My child loves being in the 2s class and is not only learning potty training but also is learning his numbers and letters. This is a bilingual school with bilingual teachers. 😊
The staff at Eastern Child Development Center treat the kids like their own children and the resident cat is wonderful. My daughter still talks about how much she loves Miss Hannah, Miss Judy, and all of the other teachers. Highly recommend.
My daughter went to Eastern for 2 years. And I regret ever sending her there at all. It was the only daycare in my area that was open late, and I had no other options, but that doesn't stop the guilt and regret. The employees watching my daughter did not speak English, so we could not even communicate with them effectively. She wears hearing aids, and as a young toddler needed help with them. I couldn't even communicate with them tell them what to do, so her hearing aids just sat in her backpack. With her hearing loss, she needed special care for speech and language, and fell so far behind because they only spoke to her in a language she did not understand. I'm cool with being bilingual. But don't confuse my kid! There were times we would pick her up with soaked diapers that hadn't been changed in hours. There were times I would walk in the room and the employees were playing on their phones. Employees would stand across the street and smoke cigarettes and come back in smelling like ash trays. There were times that we would pick her up with visible bite marks from other children. One time, abother child had thrown a book at her, hitting her in the eye and cutting her. I didn't even receive a phone call. The place is filthy. The front office looks like a hoarder's house, and the classrooms are dingy and dirty...and the floors are carpeted. It's difficult to disinfect carpeted floors, so my child got sick so much that I nearly lost my job because of how often I had to keep her home. All in all, I feel like all this place did for my kid was loosely supervise her, because they certainly didn't teach her anything while she was there. When the center closed down while they were under investigation for abuse allegations, CYFD helped us find another daycare. It was like a night and day difference and my daughter started to excel. If only I had got her out of there sooner.
The director will hire ANYONE as long they pass the background check, they're not required to be CPR certified or First Aid certified (which is wrong)....as a PARENT, the stuff I saw and heard while there, I would NEVER put my own children or recommend this facility. All the 5 stars they've received from reviews are from their own staff.....