La Petite Academy INC.

We couldn’t be happier with our experience so far at this preschool! Our son just started at the beginning of February, and from day one we’ve felt so welcomed and supported. The teachers are incredibly kind, patient, and genuinely caring. It’s clear they truly love what they do and care deeply about each child. The director is just as wonderful—warm, approachable, and always available to answer questions or offer reassurance. Starting preschool is a big transition, but they’ve made it such a positive and smooth experience for our whole family. We’re so grateful to have found such a nurturing and supportive environment for our son. Highly recommend!

We have had such a wonderful experience with this preschool. The teachers are incredibly caring, patient, and attentive, and our daughter absolutely loves coming every day. She’s grown so much in her confidence, social skills, and independence since starting here. Ms. Tawnie, Ms. Claire and Me Steph are amazing and l will never be able to thank them enough for the amount of care they provide for my daughter while she is in school. The communication is great, the environment feels safe and welcoming, and it truly feels like the staff know and care about each child. We couldn’t be happier and highly recommend this preschool to any family looking for a warm, supportive place for their little one!

I have loved being part of this school. My daughter completed the prek program last year. My infant just graduated to the toddler program. Both of my girls have had amazing teachers and have grown to love being there. My 1 uesr old reaches for her teachers and is perfectly happy to leave mommy everyday. I know my kids are loved and well taken care of. They focus on the kids interests and build their lessons to be around those interests. They also do a great job helping my 1 year old meet her milestones and build her confidence in her skills. The only downside is that that the teachers seem to change a lot, but the new leadership team seems to be making changes for the better. I am grateful to have found this school.

The reason for my 1 star is because I have a daughter that came in as drop in care and possibly full time enrollment. She went 2 days before I removed her. The reason for the removal was due to how the teachers handled children. My daughter may have a possibility and is getting evaluated for autism and I had let the director know up front about her possible condition and to please be patient with my daughter and anytime they need me to come and get her I will leave work to come get her and the director reassured me that they deal with autism children and that they have a child there with that condition. So it made me feel confident about leaving my child in the care of these people knowing I was terrified to do so in the beginning and had addressed my fear to the director because of how these daycare providers be overwhelmed and can get aggressive with these defenseless children that can’t defend themselves amongst an adult, but my daughter has toddler temper tantrums and doesn’t listen well at times so looking at the camera the whole day of how my child is behaving and to make sure my child is not getting abused, I seen both teachers snatch things out my daughters hands, that after the teachers put the item away another child come straight to it and get it off the shelf and play with it and nothing was snatched from them, so that’s strike 1. So teaching aggression and to snatch things out of people hands is not teaching children moral behaviors that supposed to be used in this type of settings, so I see where the other children get it from because the children that’s been there awhile snatched out my daughters hand. Yes, they was trying to redirect my daughter after going through a temper tantrum and pulled and yanked my daughters arm very aggressively on numerous occasions from both teachers. Now I am a fair person, yes I understand that the teachers has to deal with these active toddlers all day and can’t focus on one child but to grab a child by the arm and pulling them to a spot where they forcefully sit the child down that may have a special disability is very alarming, so strike 2. Strike 3 should be number 1, really, because I was alarmed when I brought my daughter the first day and looking and zooming into the cameras the teacher that has the face piercing (Tess) snatched a little girl up by the arms and swung the little girl over the back of the toddlers play couch mid air forcefully sitting the little girl down. Jesus, I wish the state of Missouri would view the footages. We would think it’s a great thing to have cameras in the classrooms but they don’t care about the cameras . I don’t know about nobody else but I don’t like to see nobody getting angry at my child for being a child that may have a disability be pulled by her arms let alone another child. My daughter is 4 and not perfect but she is a kid. I felt the energy not good at all because the other teacher niyah never said nothing to me nor smiled nor even looked my way. I wouldn’t dare give them another day with my child because it may be that day my child might get hurt by these people. If they didn’t know how to handle certain children they should of said that and I would of found somewhere else that has a more background in these situations. I felt like they didn’t want her there anyways and probably happy she gone but she wasn’t the only child who didn’t listen and always was on the go so somebody need to investigate cause you won’t ripped my daughters arm out of its socket and not exaggerating. But to each its own , mine won’t be going back. Best part was that they had cameras to see in the classroom but that’s it no where else where we can see what’s going on when our children is on the playground or out of the classroom cameras. This is scary cause us parents has to work and gots to leave our children in these type of people care. My daughter is a very sweet girl and She is a child who is active and lovable with gentle redirection. Sad cause some people may have good experiences and some people get bad experiences, but this is life.

Everyone is super kind, attentive and helpful. My only complaint is the staff has rotated a couple times, lately my kiddos class hasn’t had a consistent teacher due to turn over. But I don’t fault that to the current teachers or school director. Otherwise my daughter and I really like the school.