Footprints Academy, INC is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 273 Nw 15th Street, Boca Raton, Florida FL. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Footprints Academy receives mostly positive reviews praising the director Veena and staff for their caring nature, affordability, and nurturing environment. However, one detailed negative review raises serious concerns about hygiene, mix-ups with children's belongings, dietary restrictions not being respected, and inadequate incident reporting.
Ms. Veena is the greatest! She genuinely cares and loves the children who attend her center. She majored in nutrition, so she is knowledgeable about what children should eat. She works at the center with her husband. The two are kind and generous. My son attended this academy over the summer (while he was almost 2) and he quickly acclimated. His teachers were so nice. The director is also nice and super helpful! I trust her with my son. The school is older and not at 'boca standards' but what matters to me is my son enjoyed going there, he is loved and nurtured. She is super affordable as well. The camp they offer during the summer is also great for older kids, they go on trips. There is also a very diverse group of children. The older kids are well behaved and sweet. You can tell they respect and love the director.
From my personal experience, My son was enrolled for approximately 6 months - The room that he was placed in, as well as the 1 year old room adjacent to his class both, always smelled of dirty diapers. It did not seem very cleanly. My son came home in another child's diapers multiple times (even as clearly as a girls pull up when he was still in diapers) His cup had been sent home with another child (all cups are labeled) My son is lactose sensitive and was given milk on more than 1 occasion. The teacher attempted to say that He had it in the cup since the morning. I don't give my son milk in the mornings - & Why was milk from the morning still left in the cup in the afternoon when I picked him back up? My son would come home with bruises and markings all the time (most of which were unconcerning, placements on the shins and such like a usual 2 year old boy) But those that were more serious I had to drag answers out of the director and teacher and they would tell me things like he fell from a bookshelf he was climbing, or he jumped from the top of the playground slide. Incident reports were never written up - I was never told the day this happened - Not even a phone call at the time it happened. When bringing up concerns to the director I always felt she would just shrug my concerns off. As if I didn't know what I was talking about - When I brought up the possibility of ADHD she said "When he gets into the 3 & 4s class I will shape him up" That is a very worrisome sentence to a mother. I immediately withdrew my son from the daycare and found a wonderful new daycare for him. I will never recommend this daycare to a parent.
It was a great experience for my preschooler at Foot Prints Academy. The environment is hygenic, the teachers are very friendly and caring. My son learned good discipline there.
Veena and all the teachers are extremely good & friendly. My son initially hesitated to go and after a week, he even wanted to go to school in week ends.
My son is getting smarter because of Mrs Vienna