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Author: jennifer oquendo Rating: 5/5 Date: 1/16/2025, 12:25:10 PM Review: My daughter is in VPK & my baby now in infant room. I absolutely love this place for my kids! Never any tears just full of joy. the staff is also amazing

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Author: Yvonne Berinato Rating: 5/5 Date: 4/3/2025, 11:37:40 AM Review: So proud to be Director of this amazing school! We have a clean, state of the art facility, a Steam curriculum that is so innovative and exciting, as well as a caring and knowledgeable group of teachers. ----- Author: Jackie Rating: 5/5 Date: 4/3/2025, 10:44:31 AM Review: Wonderful school! Clean and safe facility with great staff and impressive curriculum. ----- Author: Raiza Jacomino Rating: 5/5 Date: 3/21/2025, 6:09:07 PM Review: My name is Raiza. I am a Pre K teacher of Amazing Explore. I feel very lucky to be able to work in this academy and to teach children every day for a better future, interesting things are done and a very good curriculum, I hope you know a little more about this wonderful place. ----- Author: Dialee Moore Rating: 5/5 Date: 1/15/2025, 8:06:35 PM Review: We love AEA-Citrus Park! We've been an AMAZING Family since August of 2023. We did experience the mass number of turnovers experienced approximately a year ago - but within about 2-months, things turned around for the better. The owner and leadership were open to hearing our feedback, outlined the go forward plan, and now we could not be happier that we remained enrolled. The current leadership and staff truly care about the children. Every decision is - "What's best for the kiddos?" Parents are included to attend monthly meetings to provide feedback in and above what the leadership is open to hearing day in and day out. Each time I pick up my boys and drop them off, I'm greeted warmly by the leadership from the front office, and by each teach I pass on my way to the classrooms. The facility is immaculately maintained - there's truly no cleaner or newer looking daycare or school to compare to. That coupled with the friendliness of the staff, parents, and kids makes it easy to entrust our children with the people next best in line to family that we could hope to leave them with. Additionally, the education our kids receive through the STEAM program is unmatched to any other curriculum. Both of my kids are exceeding their milestones, all smiles when we pick them up, and I'm filled with stories, memories, and pictures that make AEA a 2nd home to our family. We love you AEA - Citrus Park!!! ----- Author: Selina McDonald Rating: 5/5 Date: 11/8/2024, 3:14:12 PM Review: It is such a pleasure working with the team and connecting with the parents and children at Amazing Explorers in Citrus Park. The curriculum, atmosphere and the community involvement is by far impressive. ----- Author: Carla Baldin Rating: 5/5 Date: 9/12/2024, 12:13:32 AM Review: Amazing environment , the curriculum it is innovative and the teachers very committed. My kids are very happy 😃 ----- Author: Natacha Ojeda Rating: 5/5 Date: 4/4/2024, 12:40:51 AM Review: I love this preschool .. this school is so pretty and clean ! Love the curriculum they offer ,the steam program is Amazing..the children get to experience science ,art and so much more ! ----- Author: Samantha Rating: 1/5 Date: 3/4/2024, 7:25:09 PM Review: Everyone I was able to talk to were very nice. What caused me to remove my daughter from this school was when I first toured the school it was under different management. I was told their curriculum and their day to day schedules. There’s an app where you can see your child through the cameras and get updates through out the day. When I enrolled my daughter, the next week it was under new management. It has been messy, no teachers, my child wasn’t being taught anything, no updates on the app and I understand things happen but was also locked out of the school until 9:30am. I asked about why isn’t my daughter being taught anything. What I got was we have a curriculum and we are following it. I let her know i check the cameras and I never see them doing any work. Plus I ask my daughter what she learned today and her response is “ I didn’t learn anything we just had fun!” I was told they went over the calendar and had story time.Which to me isnt enough. I left a message the other day and never got a response either. What really pulled the trigger was with all the mess and no learning going on, they decided to raise the prices a week. You want us to pay extra and we’re not even getting what we originally paid for. I thought that was a bit much. Also my daughter let me know she had wet herself during nap time. I never received a call nor did she have a change a clothes. So my daughter was in wet bottoms until I picked her up. Next time a call would be nice. But it’s a very nice school and has potential to be a lot better. I hope they’re able to be better during this transition.

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Author: Lace Calotes Rating: 1/5 Date: 4/3/2024, 8:59:33 PM Review: My daughter started at AEA in June 2023 when they first opened. It was amazing. Big clean classrooms, a camera to check in, an app to communicate with her teachers and other staff, plenty of activities, etc. It also felt like a family. Every time we did pick up and drop off everyone greeted our daughter by name, even teachers that didn’t work with her directly. We could tell she was really thriving and learning. They also took time to talk to and get to know my husband and I. Again, it was a family. In Feb 2024, over the weekend, we were informed of sudden director and staff changes. From that moment everything went downhill. Cameras not working well, front door breaking, classrooms a mess, barely any updates or communication on the app, but most of all the kids were affected. I would check in on the camera and would see chaos; kids running around the classroom, throwing toys, nap times being skipped all while their teacher would just be standing there. It was obvious all the kids that were usually behaved and used to structure and loving and caring teachers were acting out with the changes. We gave it a chance for a month, but it didn’t get any better. She wasn’t learning anything new, not napping, and SO hungry when she got home. A LOT of families pulled out of AEA and even with just 6 kids (previously 12+ kids) in the classroom it seemed like that teacher couldn’t handle the kids. What made our final decision to stop attending AEA was the increase of $100/month in the tuition AND lunch being pulled. Now they ask to pay for lunch (up to $50 a week) or bring cold lunch from home. What exactly are we paying for anymore?! $300+ for nothing.. It’s all very disappointing especially with how great it was before. I wish I could give a great review, but with all the sudden changes, the inadequate teaching, increase in price, and the loss of the family feeling I can only give a warning to future families. ----- Author: Samantha Rating: 1/5 Date: 3/4/2024, 7:25:09 PM Review: Everyone I was able to talk to were very nice. What caused me to remove my daughter from this school was when I first toured the school it was under different management. I was told their curriculum and their day to day schedules. There’s an app where you can see your child through the cameras and get updates through out the day. When I enrolled my daughter, the next week it was under new management. It has been messy, no teachers, my child wasn’t being taught anything, no updates on the app and I understand things happen but was also locked out of the school until 9:30am. I asked about why isn’t my daughter being taught anything. What I got was we have a curriculum and we are following it. I let her know i check the cameras and I never see them doing any work. Plus I ask my daughter what she learned today and her response is “ I didn’t learn anything we just had fun!” I was told they went over the calendar and had story time.Which to me isnt enough. I left a message the other day and never got a response either. What really pulled the trigger was with all the mess and no learning going on, they decided to raise the prices a week. You want us to pay extra and we’re not even getting what we originally paid for. I thought that was a bit much. Also my daughter let me know she had wet herself during nap time. I never received a call nor did she have a change a clothes. So my daughter was in wet bottoms until I picked her up. Next time a call would be nice. But it’s a very nice school and has potential to be a lot better. I hope they’re able to be better during this transition.