Learning Tree Day School

My daughter has attended this school since May. She has been sick EVERY week. They let the kids touch each other’s food, put their mouths on toys, and they don’t send kids home that are obviously sick. Tonight my child was HOSPITALIZED after just two days at the school this week because she had a fever and could not breathe. I have spent HUNDREDS of dollars trying to get my daughter better since she started going here, on top of her tuition. Please save yourself the money and heart ache and AVOID this place.

I can’t say enough about the staff and the owner at learning tree day school. My son has gone there since the age of one until now because we’re moving (he’s 3) we have never had a complaint about the care we have always loved his teachers and they couldn’t have been friendlier to us and my son. The pricing is completely reasonable better than most especially in round rock/​Austin. The care for my son has been above and beyond and I really can’t recommend them enough. We will really miss coming here.

My daughter is four and a half. She has been at Learning Tree since she was 18 months old. I love this daycare. They have a very low turnover rate with the teachers which is rare at a daycare. There are a lot of teachers there that were there when we started. All of the teachers including the ones my daughter has never had as teachers know us and tell us hi by name every day. We love the ladies at the front desk who have also been there since we started. They know us both by first name and take time to talk to us on a personal level every day. In the last three years there has not been a single incident that I felt something was handled wrong or poorly, and I am very hard to please when it comes to my child. I recommend this daycare to everyone! We will be very sad when my daughter starts school and doesn’t attend anymore.

I have two daughters (5&7) that have been attending Learning Tree for 4 yrs. The teachers are very nice and genuinely care for the kids. Miss Jackie (Director) is no longer there (retired). She is missed but Mr Shah and the staff make every effort to run the center as she did.
The kids are given healthy lunches and snacks after school which is nice. They follow the RRISD curriculum and school calendar. They are very prompt to let you know if there will be a delay or closing due to weather. Also, if your child is ill or has an incident, such as falling on the playground, they notify you.
The prices are fair and considering they pick your children up from school and offer great summer programs (swimming lessons, trips to the movies, petting zoo bowling, puppet shows, etc) it’s well worth it.
The rooms are kept clean and I have seen the teachers on many occasions disinfecting the tables, toys, and other surfaces in the rooms. My children have only come home with a cold caught at day care a few times in the many years we have been going there. Considering that kids have little concept of germs, this is pretty good.
Overall, I have to say I am VERY pleased with LT. I have recommended them to several friends and family members who also have their children attend and are very happy.

My daughters have been here for about 6 months now so I feel I am qualified to write this positive review. Prior to me transferring my daughters to LT they were at Children’s Courtyard. I actually have 4 kids total so we were at CCY for about 5 years. I had always thought highly of CCY and was proud to say my children attended there. After a few years the directors changed quite often and I saw the after school program go down hill. It went from having 5 to 6 teachers to having only 1 because they couldn’t keep enrollment up. Still I stuck it out with them because let’s face it looking for daycare isn’t so easy. The final straw was when I was called a couple of weeks before the start of the school year to be told that they were discontinuing the pick up schedule from my daughters’ school. After the initial shock of realizing that my loyalty of 5 years meant absolutely nothing to them, I immediately started looking for a new daycare. I had always kept LT in the back of my mind but I thought they closed at 6 pm and I needed a daycare that stayed open until 6:30 pm, I was surprised and happy to hear that they actually did close at the time that I was looking for. I visited the daycare and enrolled them the same day. One of the BEST things I love about this daycare is that they serve my children a full dinner when they get there from school and they also get a snack in the late afternoon. The staff always welcomes you and they show interest in their parents. I also like that they accept Credit Cards as a form of payment. Oh and by the way CCY told me the next day that they had made a mistake because they actually had a staff members child attending my daughters school so they would actually be able to go and pick my girls too… if it wasn’t too late. Well sorry but it was! I have no regrets except for not transferring them sooner.

My foster son goes to Learning Tree, and we love it. Ms. Jackie Freer, the Director, has been there since I myself was a middle-​school boy scout whose troop met at Learning Tree. There’s a lot of child care experience at Learning Tree, and our 2-​year-​old loves to go to school and see his teachers, especially his favorite, Ms. Tina. They have a great playground, excellent teachers, and do a lot of fun arts and crafts. We’ve had our foster son here for six months, and he looks forward to going every day.

I’ll start off with a full disclosure. I only took my child here for two days of care. So, take that into consideration when you read my review.
The good: The location is close to where I live, so I think that’s awesome. The prices-It’s $ 90 a week for part time care.
The Staff-​Very friendly and they go out of their way to work with your schedule and needs. The Hours-​They are open from 6:30AM to 6PM. I think that tends to do well for most working adults. The center is painted very brightly and they claim to disinfect their rooms/​toys daily. They also serve breakfast/​lunch and a pm snack. They send the kiddo’s things home every Friday to be laundered. They take deposits, offer Spanish classes, and offer exercise programs. They have minimal TV time and more hands-​on learning time.
The bad: When I went to pick up my daughter on both days, the kids were dirty. Most had snot running down their nose or they had dry snot. GROSS. Also, on the second day that I went to pick up my kid, she had a poopy pamper. How long was she sitting in her own feces? That pissed me off. There was only one teacher for ten kids. I know that I have trouble handling my toddler half the time, I can’t imagine one person trying to handle 10; Also, they took the kids outside even when it was 40 degrees. When I asked about this, I was told it was state mandated. However, a different daycare told me that if it was cold outside, they kept the kids in. So, I am not sure who to believe. They change the kids in the same room they eat in, so every time you walk in there, it stinks like potty.
The UGLY: The first evening that I went to pick my child up from the daycare, the teacher who walked me back noticed a little boy who appeared to be sick. She told the teacher in the room that they should send him home because he was ill. Keep in mind that this is after 3pm. Why didn’t they send him home sooner? Or why didn’t the teacher who had been with him all day long notice? (again, too many kids for one person) I also noticed that the kids all coughed all over one another and nothing was really done to prevent the spreading of germs. I understand it’s a daycare and kids will be sick and spread viruses. However, I just think they could have been more sanitary. While snack time was going on, my daughter was able to poke at another little girl’s food. Never was she reprimanded or told to keep her hands on her own plate. The other little girl was too busy playing with the toys. The teacher never encouraged her to come and eat. So, they just threw the food away when snack time was over. Anyhow, to make a long story short, in two days my daughter caught a nasty virus that gave her a cold, cough, and two major ear infections. The next weekend she wound up in the hospital. The doctors confirmed it was something she picked up while in daycare. Because my daughter’s immune system was not attuned to the germs there, she was hit pretty hard and is still recovering. When I called to warn the daycare, I was told that no other kid was sick and that they disinfect every day so they had no worries. *SMH*
Long story short, my daughter will never go back there. Even so, if my kid was used to daycare and her immune system was a little stronger, this may not have happened. I’d still like to see them keep the kids a little cleaner.