Children's Center of Austin

CCOA is nothing short of amazing. Everything about the school is fantastic. The director Ms Chaela has fostered a nurturing environment focused on advanced education, compassionate social skills, and robust childhood development. It’s apparent the teachers are treated well and supported properly, as they are highly engaged in their profession and are happy. The school is always organized, reliable, and dependable. The breadth of on-site activities and outside excursions is diversified and exciting; hearing from our children about all the fun things they get to do is heart-warming. They surprise us on a regular basis with new things they have learned. Our children love their teachers - Ms Brittany, Ms Gianna, Ms Jovana, Ms Ashleigh, and Mr David. It’s apparent they care for our children and we feel comforted knowing they’re in such caring and safe hands. We recently attended a graduation ceremony from Pre-K that blew us away. The amount of effort it took to deliver the result must have been staggering. Everything was perfect and touching. CCOA has a special place in our hearts and we are truly grateful to be part of this amazing school.

My son spent two years in Bee Cave CCOA before starting school and it was an amazing time! He could not speak English nor Spanish when entering CCOA so a hard nut to crack! But thanks to the effort of fabulous teachers and effects of stimulating environment he’s got much more than just knowledge of language. After the time in CCOA he is emotionally and socially matured and curriculum they offer provided him a head start for Elementary school. The environment of this school is friendly and nurturing and you can simply see they know what they are doing. What I like about this school is the dynamic schedule filled with education and fun that keeps the children busy and entertained. They provide meals throughout the day that is not a matter of course in Austin at all, the whole facility is built for purposes of childcare so that does a lot. I also liked the field trips or special events held on site – kids have something to look forward to and breaking the routine is just refreshing for anybody. Great experience for us and I can honestly recommend this school – it’s among the best or the best pre-school daycare facility in Austin. I cannot be more thankful for finding it!

CCOA has been an incredible part of our family’s life. Our oldest son has thrived here - surrounded by nurturing teachers, thoughtful curriculum, and a truly loving community. The care, intention, and joy the staff bring every day is unmatched. Watching our oldest grow, learn, and build strong friendships has been such a gift. We’re so grateful for everything CCOA has done for our family and are excited that our younger son will continue his journey here! We cannot recommend CCOA more highly.

This school, has brought me so much peace & calmness with the Amazing, friendly staff that work here which makes drop off easy and fast knowing that my children are well taking care of, Learning and safe. The director here is super incredible and knowledgeable about the school and it's history, she's full of joy that lights up a room and she's always happy. This school is a very enriched learning environment with alot of resources for young children to grow. Smells great,looks aesthetically pleasing and always clean which is a Big Plus. Highly recommend Children's Center of Austin Bee Cave.

It makes me sad to have to write this review but I’m hoping what happened to us at the Children’s Center of Austin, Westlake doesn’t happen to another family. My son attended the Children Center of Austin, Westlake location from mid January to mid April, 2024. He was 6-9 months old while there. Our top priority has always been the safety and well-being of our son, yet incidents underscored our concerns regarding his safety while under the care of CCOA. Our son was diagnosed with severe food allergies and had a few occasions of anaphylactic shock. Luckily never while at daycare but for the third time in a month, our son was placed in a different classroom without us knowing, the substitute teacher was NOT aware of his anaphylactic allergies and did NOT know the location of his Epi-pen. Senior management’s response was to keep changing policies with the latest one being that they wanted his Epi-pen to be located outside the classroom, such as at the front desk or office, but there were many occasions when we've arrived and found no one at the front desk or office — this left us deeply troubled and indicated a sever lack of understanding about the urgency of anaphylactic allergies. Furthermore, the continued misidentification of our son as another kids name by staff members added to our concerns. This oversight continued to reflect a lack of attention to detail. Senior leaderships response was ‘we can understand the teachers continued mistake as your son and the other kid do look similar.’ The similarities are that our kids both have the same eye color and hair color. There were MANY other smaller issues: sent home wearing other kids diapers and clothes, terrible diaper rash on multiple occasions (even after raising concerns from our doctor to Senior Management), using other kids diaper cream on our kid, photos loaded to the app that were not our child, misrepresentation of what our kid ate listed on the app… the list goes on. We exhausted all avenues in attempting to resolve these issues with Senior Management but unfortunately, issues continued to arise, leaving us with no choice but to prioritize our son’s safety above all else and leave. We cannot recommend this school as a safe environment for children. The evident deficiencies in leadership undermine their ability to create a secure and nurturing setting. Until meaningful changes are made at the leadership level, we fear these issues will persist, ultimately impacting the well-being of the children under their care.