La Petite Academy of Tempe

Childhood Childcare Education Center in Tempe Az.
La Petite Academy is an early childhood education center located in Tempe, AZ. They offer comprehensive childcare programs for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-aged children. The programs are designed to provide a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment that promotes children's social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development. The curriculum is based on research-based practices and focuses on hands-on learning, exploration, and play. The teachers are highly trained and qualified to provide individualized attention and support to each child. La Petite Academy is committed to helping children build a strong foundation for lifelong learning and success.

Love love this daycare! The communication between parents and staff is top notch, I can also tune in to see my baby play when I miss her during the day. There are plenty of activities and they serve healthy snacks! My baby loves to “ go see her friends” everyday.

Got here through a referral, love the whole team here. Super caring and trustworthy. Would highly recommend!

One of the best decisions I have made when choosing a daycare. The whole entire staff are so loving, kind, and sweet. We have always been greeted by name when we walk through the door. Being a first-time mom, I was so nervous about going back to work and the Director Jenn, Assistant Director Ally, and teachers have always been so communicative and reassuring since the beginning. The additional security of having access to the app with livestream camera to check-in and receive updates on my daughter makes me feel a thousand times better and rest assured throughout my workday. I have always felt this center to be family-oriented rather than business driven, and I can personally say that any of my concerns have not been taken lightly and appropriately addressed. The directors and teachers truly care for the safety and well-being of all the children. My daughter started at La Petite Academy when she was 12 months old. Although she was the only one in the classroom to not walk at the time, the amazing staff worked with her to support and encourage her development. After just a few short months she was up on her feet independently walking, and she is now 18 months old and happily running out the house every morning to go to school. Ms. Kim is truly amazing and embodies so much compassion and love for the toddlers, she provides a safe and nurturing environment and I feel so comfortable knowing my daughter is in her care. The classrooms have specialized curriculum of activities tailored to the specific age-groups to support their growth and development, and my daughter is already learning so much. They take such great care of my daughter, and I would recommend this school for anyone that is looking for quality care.

My nephew was recently kicked out of this daycare for hitting and biting, he was previously enrolled in another day care prior to this where he never had any incidents like this before, my sister just felt that he wasn’t learning enough. As soon as he started attending this day care he was bit first, and since then he’s continued that behavior he was introduced to at THIS day care. Instead of trying to redirect my nephew and find a solution to this behavior they suggested my sister bite her son back. I am still not understanding how that would stop biting and rather encourage it, another teacher said it is just a phase and dismissed it, and then they kicked him out. My nephew is still a baby, he’s only 18 mos old. If you are not trained to redirect and teach better behavior to babies and instead tell their parents their baby needs to be evaluated, then I believe it is the staff and faculty of this daycare that needs to reevaluate their level of training and care at this facility. Very poor quality child care. I would not recommend this day care to any friends or family.

Called and made an appointment, and the lady rambled a script for 10 minutes and instead of being informative about rules on being potty trained at 3 I left work early and drove 20 minutes out of my way just to be told they wouldn’t accept my son because he is not potty trained which is fine because seeing it’s owned by tutor time I wouldn’t want my son in there anyways. They are outdated dirty facilities. Every other daycare I have toured so far has had no problems with him not being potty trained and would put him in a lower level program. It smells like old mildew in there also. Looked at reviews and saw someone’s 3 year old escaped recently so we dodged a bullet there.