Description: We have developed Little Roos to meet the growing needs of the Northwest Corpus Christi area. Our focus is to Provide an environment that your child will feel comfortable in so we can begin developing their social growth and the learning of our age planned curriculum.
The goal of Little Roos along with the Scholastic Big Day curriculum is to prepare children of all ages for academic success. Our center has a modified curriculum that has been developed of knowledge, skills and concepts that will challenge each child throughout their developmental stages, preparing them for an academic future blooming with success. Our center based curriculum is designed to stimulate each child's growth and development to their fullest potential.
Where possible, ChildcareCenter provides inspection reports as a service to families. This information is deemed reliable, but is not guaranteed. We encourage families to contact the daycare provider directly with any questions or concerns, as the provider may have already addressed some or all issues. Reports can also be verified with your local daycare licensing office.
| Inspections | Assessments | Self Reported Incidents | Reports |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1 | 1 | 6 View Report(s) |
If you are a provider and you believe any information is incorrect, please contact us. We will research your concern and make corrections accordingly.
Write a review about Little Roos Preschool Academy. Let other families know what’s great, or what could be improved. Please read our brief review guidelines to make your review as helpful as possible.
Our Experience with Little Roo’s Daycare Center - Calallen: We first started taking our children to Little Roo’s in 2021. Right at the height of CoVid. We started taking them there because we had heard they were one of the best places to take your children. While expensive, you pay for what you get. All the staff went above and beyond to take care of our children daily. This story is more about our oldest who is now 3 and a half at the time of us writing this review. Now, I will pause to say that I may be sued for writing this review as that is what the result of the conversation was that I had with the daycare owner. I will go in depth a little more on this later. Yes, the daycare owner threatened to sue me if I wrote a bad review about her daycare. I’m writing it anyway. I believe everyone should know what they are stepping into when selecting a new product, service, etc. LJ, our oldest, has a severe case of ADHD and has gone through Autism tests and is currently going through sleep studies and other evaluations to see if his behavior is triggered by his inability to sleep among some of these other factors. LJ is a great kid. Of course, every parent says that, but we truly believe he is. If you ask Ms. Katrina, Ms. Jessica, and most of the other staff members of Little Roo’s they would agree. Now, I am by no means writing this to say that my kid is a perfect child. I do not believe that he should not be disciplined when needed, nor do I believe that he should use his ADHD as a crutch, but rather a way to express his creativity. I don’t believe people should treat him any different as he must learn how to control his behavior just as every other child does for the betterment of society. It does, however, make him a super over-active child and we love that about LJ. We also know that it can be overbearing at times and get out of hand. When those situations arise, we do our best to correct the situation as any parent would do. However, like every kid, he has his faults. LJ has a problem when there is a change in routine. Which seems to happen sometimes as we can expect. Ms. Katrina and the staff have done a great job in working with LJ and letting us know when he can become to much and needs to be picked up. We have always accommodated this request and even kept him home for a month due to a staffing issue they had at the daycare and not being able to take care of him. Yes, he throws things, hits others, pushes when he shouldn’t, but as you are aware, this isn’t something outside of the norm for children. My daughter has been bitten multiple times at this facility by other children, and I’m sure has also bit children as well. It will happen and is unavoidable. We have been addressing these issues at home as well as with the staff at Little Roo’s to find the best course of action. However, LJ just seems to need a little extra care and attention which the staff of Little Roo’s gladly gave him when able. All except the Daycare owner, Ms. Peggy who informed me that her daycare was not equipped with the staff to handle children with “special needs”. On several occasions, we have observed Ms. Peggy being overbearing towards LJ. There is a phrase that comes to mind that says, “You can tell when someone doesn’t like your child, therefore your child can sense that same person doesn’t like them”. This can cause children to act out and trigger anxiety. Especially in LJ’s case. In fact, we had an issue with a teacher at Little Roo’s being rude/mean to LJ triggering his anxiety and causing him to act out. As soon as I addressed this issue to Ms. Katrina, the teacher was removed from the class, and he seemed to do much better. This is the phrase I would also use to describe Ms. Peggy. She doesn’t seem to care for LJ point blank. We have had several phone calls from the daycare saying Ms. Peggy is ready to pull LJ out unless we come up with alternative solutions, so myself and the daycare director, Ms. Katrina, devised a solution that seemed to be working for the last week according to the reports we were receiving. That was, until Ms. Peggy was the one running the daycare for the day. On June 16, 2022, we received a phone call from Ms. Peggy stating that LJ needed to be picked up because one of their teachers called in and he was wreaking havoc on the classroom. Again, ill reference the change in routine. We informed Ms. Peggy that we were unable to pick him up at that exact moment due to work being done at our home that required an adult to be present and I being in a meeting with my regional manager. We also explained that LJ probably just needed his nap because he was in a sleep study the night before and that after his nap, he should be in a better mood which was 20 minutes away from Ms. Peggy’s initial phone call. This was unacceptable to Ms. Peggy, and she said if we couldn’t pick him up right away, she would call our emergency contacts to handle this for us. My wife explained that the work should be done by the time LJ woke up from his nap and she would be more than happy to pick him up at that time. She began to get confrontational with my wife, and when my wife explained that she did not appreciate that, she said she didn’t want to speak with her anymore and wanted me to call her as soon as possible. My wife called me out of my meeting to call Ms. Peggy and get the situation handled. I let Ms. Peggy know I would be there just as fast as I could. The initial phone call came in at 10:40am. LJ was picked up at 12:10pm. A little under an hour and a half later. When I got to the daycare Ms. Peggy was ready for me with LJ’s things, and a paper in her hand. When I walked into her office, I was met with blunt, emotionless words. She told me she could no longer continue to keep LJ at the daycare because he is a “liability”. My son of 3 is a liability for her. She said she was tired of filling out countless incident reports on his behalf and having to answer to other parents who complain. I asked her to pull his file to I could see his incident reports in comparison to the other children. She stated she “didn’t have to show me anything”. She is right, she doesn’t have to show me. This just leads me to my next point. She didn’t want LJ there. That’s why she did this. Not because of his behavior not because of his actions. Because she didn’t want him there. In a span of 5 minutes, I asked for all 3 of my children to be withdrawn, asked for their things, was told “he is the way he is because of you”, been threated with a lawsuit, been threatened with a call the police. All unnecessary in my opinion. The way I was treated by Ms. Peggy was something I have never experience by any member of her staff. This was the only meeting Ms. Peggy every had with us. A meeting to withdraw my son for bad behavior. She didn’t care to hear what I had to say. She didn’t care to show me any proof of his incident reports. She didn’t care that I would be withdrawing my other two children if she made this decision. She just didn’t care. This is the kind of person who owns this daycare. Thank God she’s not the one running the day-to-day operations. To Ms. Katrina, Ms. Betty, Ms. Jessica, Ms. Norma, Ms. Vicki, Ms. KK, Ms. Cameron, Ms. Felicia, and anyone else I may have forgot, Thank you. Thank you all for making this the absolute best experience for my children that you possibly could. Thank you for teaching them things they never would have learned from a public pre-k. Thank you for being a second home. My children, my wife, and myself love every one of you and we hope you all stay in touch as we know we will. We formed a family with these amazing women. If it weren’t for them, this daycare wouldn’t be what it is. Unfortunately, a daycare, as in any business, is only as good as their leader. In my opinion, Ms. Peggy is not steering this place in the right direction and should consider hiring people with certifications to work with children with special needs as this is one of the reasons she told me she couldn’t handle LJ anymore. If that’s done, this place would be top notch. Until then, consider searching elsewhere for care if your child may be like my LJ.
My experience with Little Roos was not good. We only experienced the infant rooms, so I cannot speak for the older rooms. On three occasions the teacher in my child’s room picked up my son by his arms, rather than his torso. I did report on two of the occasions and the director said she’d write up the teacher. They would also cart the about 7 babies in one crib from the gym to their room. As my son wasn’t standing yet, he’d be screaming when I got there because kids were walking on him in a tiny crib. I’m not sure if it is a violation, but they do have nap time with all the lights out. Seems like a violation. I would send lunch with my son because I felt the food was inappropriate for the age level. A new teacher ended up feeding my 10 month old hotdogs, even though I sent food. Why is hotdog even an option in a preschool?? As far as I could tell, there was no curriculum to speak of. The rooms are very small for the number of kids trying to crawl around and they do not have toys available for the babies to grab off shelves and it is not print rich at all. I had to ask the teachers repeatedly to do tummy time with my son. He was content just sitting and playing or being in a bouncer, so every picture I got of him was him by himself sitting. On multiple occasions one teacher would tell me she felt like he didn’t like her, a baby. For the price we paid for this place, I expected more. I literally pulled my son before his last day because I would feel so guilty and scared to send him here. This was my honest experience for people to take into consideration when choosing a place for their infant.
There is no competition in the Northwest Corpus Christi, Annaville, or Calallen area; Little Roo's Preschool Academy is hands down one of the best day care facilities I've seen. Clean facility, bio-metric security (thumb print), and an A+ staff. Look no further if you're in the area.
this facility doesn't even deserve a rating! The director (I think her name is Brandy) is extremely rude and unprofessional. If she is conducting an interview, she is very prejudiced and discriminates against you if she doesn't like your previous employer or if she thinks you are too old. She refuses to hire you for these things! I know of two people that this has happened to. Unless she knows you or unless she has never met you or you have never worked at a facility, she will not hire. She is supposed to be a role model for kids!!! Ha! I won't even go over there. It may be a beautiful facility on the inside but unless they do something with that director, they will never have a good quality program.