La Petite Academy

Our daughter attends the Saber Springs La Petite Academy. She is currently enrolled in the 2 year olds classroom. We have been there for a couple of months. I have to say this place is great. The teachers are awesome, my daughter is always having fun and playing when I pick her up. She is always coming home with arts and craft items that they do during the week. Most important, the center is super clean. Ms. Jordan, Ms. Rose are her primary teachers and I have to say they are awesome as well. Couldn’t be more happy. Totally recommend this center to anyone.

Hi, my son is 6 months and has been attending La petite since he was 3 months old. I am a first time mommy and I was pretty intimidated about leaving him in another persons care while I went to work. April, Rose, Kennya, and Jamie have been soo wonderful to my family. They have assured me that my son is in great hands. My favorite part is coming home with adorable crafts that my son and the staff created. Even though I may not be able to be with him during the day because of work I have little reminders that he has a great time. I am grateful to have such an amazing team taking care of my son. I would highly recommend this location to my friends and family! :)

My experience with the academy was very mixed. My son went to saber spring one. We sent him only for a month and then we moved him to another daycare.
We joined him when he was 5 months old. Initially I was prepared that he would cry till he would get used to the place. After almost like a week and half the teachers there would complain to me that he needs more personal care, he likes to be held and doesn’t play by himself. They made me feel guilty for dropping him at the daycare and going back to work. They would say that I should stay with my son and 5 months is too young for him to join any daycare. They would give recommendations to hire a personal Nanny or send him to a home based daycare.
The teachers they are nice but I guess they were not able to manage the 1:4 ratio for infants. With the new infant the extra care and the crying I think it was tough on them.
It was very hard on me, as a mother to see your child with swollen eyes when you pick him up. I am glad I decided to move him out of La Petite.

My son has been at La Petite for two years, since he was three months. I chose La Petite because I LOVED the baby room and have stayed because I have LOVED every room he’s been in since! Not only do they take excellent care of the kids but they spend the time to teach them so much. I have continually been pleasantly surprised by my son’s development, from when I told him to sit down at 12 months and he did to when he pointed out the octagon at 18 months as we were walking down the street. And he loves it too — on the weekend he tells me how he wants to go ‘play friends’ and he often doesn’t want to leave when I come to pick him up. Love La Petite!

My daughter attended this daycare from 7 months to 3.5 yrs old.
Most of the teachers at the daycare are new, so I could only really comment on the preschool program.
Pros: long term teacher, small class size, structured learning activities, daily progress notices, teacher conferences, parent/​child night
Con: not for kids who attend 2 days a week.
My daughter did well in most of the school programs. She struggled the most in the preschool program because she only attended part-​time. There were many activities that she felt left out in because they started on a day when she wasn’t there.
I usually got an incident report, but there was one occasion when I didn’t get one. I mentioned it to the teacher the following morning and she was very apologetic.
I moved my daughter to a PUSD preschool program. The 2day schedule and lower tuition worked better for us.
I would only take my daughter to la petite if her preschool teacher is still there and if she attended full time. Also, my daughter said she enjoyed it and would go back again.

My one year old and three year old both attend this daycare/​preschool. I have always been happy with the care they receive. The very few concerns I have had have been dealt with right away. Every scratch, bump, bug bite is written in detail on an «incident report», most of the time I don’t even see what scratch or bump they are talking about. I get detailed reports from the teachers everyday and I will sometimes call throughout the day to see how things are going. They never make me feel like I’m a «nuisance» and are happy to answer any question. I would recommend this facility to anyone!

We did a ton of research before finding this school, it came highly recommended by friends. When we toured it, all the staff was awesome; the director, the assistant director and all the teachers. We fell in love with it and decided to join. My son started it when he was almost 3, a couple of months before I had my 2^nd son. He Started in the 2.5 y/​o class, whose teachers were awesome. They definitely made the transition a lot easier for him, it was my first time to leave him with anyone. They were very comforting while my son was having a bit of a hard time after the baby was born. When he moved up to the Preschool class, his previous teacher would come comfort him if he cried. The preschool teacher is amazing, he truly blossomed with her. He’s in pre-​k now, and he still runs to hug his preschool teacher when he sees her, she’s an awesome teacher. His pre-​k teacher is terrific, he loves her very much and is always eager to attend her class. Everything about this school is perfect; staff, atmosphere, hygiene, education and dicipline. My son loves his school and friends. I recommended it to all my friends. I intend to enroll my younger son next year, he already loves the place :)

My two year old daughter attended this location for a couple of months on a part time basis. Because she didn’t go full time, she never really adjusted to being apart from me every other day or so, but that’s not the problem. We took her out because on more than one occasion she came home with injuries (bruises on her head, a welt like mark on the back of her shoulder). I know that 2 year olds are wild and they jump around and fall and get hurt all the time. The problem is that nobody ever recorded these injuries or could tell me any details about what happened. This tells me that my daughter wasn’t watched closely enough. The day that we picked her up and discovered the injury (probable bite mark), she had clearly been crying for a long time. That was the final straw for us. Many of the workers are friendly and the facility is nice, but I caution all parents everywhere to be 110% alert when entrusting the safety of your child in the hands of any daycare provider.