Pee Wee Prep Educational Center INC is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 5544 Race St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PA. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Pee Wee Prep Educational Center receives highly polarized reviews. Supporters praise professional management, caring staff, educational programming including bilingual instruction, and responsive health/safety protocols. Critics report serious concerns including director misconduct toward staff, inadequate staffing ratios, cleanliness issues, and insufficient support for children with special needs.
Pee Wee Prep Educational Center has been an incredible partner, and D. Richardson Productions is truly proud to collaborate with them through our Arts in Education programming. Their commitment to early childhood education, creativity, and student development is evident in everything they do. The management team at Pee Wee Prep is professional, supportive, and a genuine pleasure to work with. Over the past 10+ years, our partnership has been nothing short of exceptional not a single bad experience. Communication is clear, planning is thoughtful, and the care they show for both their students and partners truly sets them apart. We are honored to continue bringing engaging, high-quality arts programming to their students and highly recommend Pee Wee Prep Educational Center to families, educators, and community partners looking for a trusted, excellence-driven learning environment.
Anything bad you hear about this place, BELIEVE it. Coming from a parent who had to witness continuous disrespect from the director Vicky Alfred to her staff who tried their best with the conditions they were given (severely understaffed especially in class rooms with high needs children). I complained to the owner Stacy Phillips and she seemed perfectly fine with what Vicky was doing to her staff, making the environment of the building hostile and quite frankly unnerving. Vicky treats the staff so badly there is a revolving door of Pre K teachers because of it. If you want your kid to learn respect, decency, and how to treat people like they mean something..please take them somewhere else!
Location 1 and 2 are dirty. Management and most staff are very mean unpleasant and unprofessional. Roaches and ants and very abusive. Vicky horrible! Mrs Marcie! Horrible take your kids out of there asap. No they do not tend to kids with special needs. They don’t have one on ones no therapist nothing to get these kids with special needs help. Staff always out of ratio. One teacher sprayed a child with water to make him take a nap
The director Is a liar. Bring your child there at ur own risk and it’s very violent in that area. Parents and children getting hit by cars and the building got hit by 2 different cars within a year.it’s not save. Now the school they are connected to, West Philadelphia Achievement charter school, is great school with great teachers. I just wish the daycare was as good as the school. The only thing good about the daycare is if your child has a older sibling they can go to the charter school because of the sibling program.
The director of this establishment.Ms.Vicky is a coldhearted vile person. My son does not attend this day. Care but has a bus stop right outside of this day. Care on a few occasions he stopped in to ask to use a phone when his phone died so he can let someone know he is at his bus stop as the arrival time for his school bus is unpredictable. Not only was miss Vicky on inviting to my 9-year-old son, she went on to let him know that if he ever comes into the establishment again, she would call D. H. S on him, not once. Did she offer to allow him to use a phone or offer any support? But decided to throw my small son to the wolves. Under no circumstances, it ever OK to deny a child safety? When I finally spoke with miss Vicky. She also mentioned that my son stopped in there on several occasions and that if he comes in there again, she would in fact, call authorities when I attempted to reason with her and explain that. He was afraid she said she did not care.Send your children to this establishment at your own risk.Because if that's how she treats children in the community I can only imagine how she treats children in the center.
Keystone STARS
Level 4 out of 4
STAR 4
This rating is part of the state's Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). Trained evaluators assess staff qualifications, learning environment, curriculum, and family engagement — standards that go beyond basic licensing requirements.
Level 1: Meets basic licensing standards.
Level 2: Exceeds licensing with some quality improvements in place.
Level 3: Demonstrates strong practices in curriculum and staff development.
Level 4: High quality across most assessed areas.