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DaVinci Preschool Academy
1901 Park Center Dr, Orlando, FL 32835, United States
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Ka
Review №1

This childcare center is wonderful! My daughter started here a few months before turning 2, and after the first few days of separation anxiety wore off… she is always eager to go back the next day. The staff is very helpful and friendly and always notifies me if any issue arises (even scraped knees on the playground etc). The facility is very clean and well stocked with a lot of educational play items. She loves her teachers Ms. Patricia/Vanessa and is learning so much here.

Ka
Review №2

I set the appointment over the phone to do the tour. When I arrive to the place there was no one to help me , I had to wait 40min for some lady who was barely speaking English. She was unhappy that she has to talk with me, then she told me that because of covid she cant show me the place, she was not able to answer any questions. She only knew that she needs to gave me the prices right away. She said that she would call back with information if there was room for my children, but that didnt happen!!!

Da
Review №3

I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE. owner Marisol is very unfriendly and treats people badly. My son was refused for doing speech and occupational therapy. I was very poorly attended.

be
Review №4

Da Vinci Academy is an awesome preschool. The first thing you notice is that children are happy and love to go to school. It has a good academic program for what I can tell, I see my children learning new things every day, but I am not an expert. The teachers are very professionals and loving, I have a great relationship with them and that gives me a lot of confidence. I also like the families and my kids fellow students, they are really nice and easy to befriend.The area where is located is quiet, far from traffic and surrounded by green spaces. Some days at rush hour is not easy to find a parking space. Classrooms are beautiful and ample with big windows full of natural light. Lunch is prepared at the school and my kids love it (probably more than mine).I could write many more things. We are really happy with this place and highly recommend it.

In
Review №5

I love this school I have 3 kids, ages 1, 4 and 9, since 2016 my kids have attended this school and they all love it. The teachers and staff are very professional and prepared; they have been loving, patient and dedicated!! I trust and recommend this school 100% to anybody!!1 :)

Be
Review №6

My son has been having a great experience at Da Vinci since he started 3 years ago. We are really happy with this school. His teachers are caring and very professional. He loves them all, and we really appreciate their work teaching him and making him happy.

La
Review №7

My son attended Da Vinci for over year and wish we could have stayed longer, we only left due to us moving across town. He was in a few classrooms during his time there and each teacher left such a special place in his heart. The staff helped me through some very rough drop offs and was always there to communicate with me ( a nervous mother) as needed. He learned so much but more importantly from a mothers perspective, he was loved. Thank you Da Vinci for all you did for our special boy, you gave him confidence to be social in his new school.

Ju
Review №8

We have had a great experience, after 2 different daycares and 1 private catholic school, we finally found a place where our 3 years old son can have a good and caring atmosphere we where looking for. The place is clean, the teachers are very sweet, most of the are bilingual, the food is mostly homemade, fresh and prepare on the day. They have helped our son in so many ways, he is doing great and we love to see him happy.We definitely recommend this day care and preschool.

Ky
Review №9

Not the best day care or preschool teachers change a lot and my kid never seems happy to go. My son is content but not excited. Its ok. Im not thrilled with it. Staff is nice, it is clean facility, they do some holiday stuff. But over all just think there are to many kids to one teacher and dont feel the teachers are super experienced.

Jo
Review №10

They are very affordable and do a great job with the kids. I feel very secure knowing my daughter is in good hands with them.

De
Review №11

Great environment. Far more professional and organized than a lot of the smaller preschools that I have visited. I highly recommend.

da
Review №12

This is a place where children are discriminated !!! Take my son out of that place, because his teacher Anais is not trained to work with children and when a child is tremendous he takes him out of the classroom and they send him to reception and the receptionist leaves him 4 hours punished in reception! What does a receptionist know to take care of children ????? How do you expect a child to stay 4 hours quiet in a chair punished ??? They are crazy???? How a teacher takes the child out of the classroom just because he is restless! How they intend for dads to leave their work and look for their son because they can not take care of him because today the child is very restless !!!! And because the teacher is unable to control it !!!! The teacher does not show any kind of affection towards children! And the director is never there and when she is there to tell you that the child is a little restless, she needs therapies and a lot of things that make you believe that your child has problems !!!! How do you discriminate a child for being restless or tremendous! I asked many times to see the videos of the cameras, to see why they said my son was tremendous and they never showed me they always had an excuse! THEY ARE NOT ROBOTS ARE CHILDREN !!! They need to run, play, invent, share, know! They are going to be distracted of course !!! For that the teachers have to have the preparation so that they learn to have duties, concentration, to work in group and the knowledge according to their age! In that school they do not have Patience to the children nor love they only work for MONEY! I do not recommend any mom to put her son in this school! A good school cares for its students, will always want the best for them, work for your child to improve in all areas and learn, do not complain every day and always have a bad face with your child! My son is in a new school and I see him by cameras and he does not do anything they said or rather invented! He is in a new school and his teachers speak excellent of him! And he is happy with his new school and I wonder how they would treat my son and they discriminated against him while he was there !!! They are bad people because I can not accept or tolerate how they can have a heart to discriminate a child !!! DO NOT put your child in this place and those who have it there are on time !!!

Yo
Review №13

Marisol is wonderful and I fully trust that my child is in good hands with her and their staff. Great environment.

Sa
Review №14

Great preschool academy. Marisol is wonderful and her staff is great. Best preschool in Metrowest!

Lu
Review №15

Just two weeks there and my daughter love it! Very nice place and teachers; good location and easy access

Ye
Review №16

So many great things for the kids to do and they take wonderful care of them.

Da
Review №17

My son was in this school for more than a year, the experience with the one year old class was great, but when he move to the two year old class and start miss behaving Marisol the director just told me to take my kid because they could not take care of him I toke him to the doctor and the Doctor said he was a normal hyperactive two year old, but Marisol is the rudest person I have met and she is the director of this institution she just want to speech over you does not have good customer service skills and for this I dont think is good to take kids in there if the director is bad what do you spect from the teacher!!!! Ms. Laura great teacher but the other teachers do not have experience. My son was bitten and scratch, one day they almost broke his finger. very disappointed MARISOL the worst person. DO NOT TAKE YOUR KIDS THERE LOOKS GOOD BUT IS NOT GOOD.

Ka
Review №18

The director Marisol, refused to enroll my child because of a minimal medical condition he has. They discriminate children with disabilities. Not a very inclusive place. They do not follow the ADAs regulations. I went there and they said they had availability and told me to bring my sons documents for enrollment, but after I told a staff member about my sons medical condition, she told me that the director would give me a call back. The director called me and would go in circles and tried to convince me and suggested that I should find another place. After I tried to address her concerns and telling her about him being capable of attending this childcare facility despite the excuse that she said of managing big groups, she made up another excuse that she was at capacity with 16 children (which was false, because I spoke with another staff member who told me that the classroom would take up to 20 children, and another staff member told me that the classroom still had openings for more kids). The director does not like kids with disabilities and thinks they need to be in special places. So sad, very nice place with very unprofessional staff.

Ma
Review №19

THIS PLACE IS THE WORST PRESCHOOL IN ORLANDO!!! FIRST I WENT THERE TO TRY FIND A GOOD SCHOOL FOR MY SON, IN THE FIRST PLACE HE LOVE IT SO I ASK IF THEY HAVE A SPOT FOR HIM. I PAY, I GOT THE UNIFORMS SEND DOCTOR PAPERS, HE WAS READY TO START. WHEN I GOT A CALL SAYING THAT SOME TEACHER WENT TO TRAVEL AND HE NEED WAIT A MONTH TO START. A WEEK AGO I CALL ASKING IF EVERYTHING IS OK FOR HIM START ON JUNE, THE PRINCIPAL TOLD ME FOR SURE, EVERYTHING IS OK FOR HIM START ON JUNE. BUT NOTHING IS PERFECT..... MONDAY I GOT A CALL FOR A PERSON THAT EVEN SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH TELL ME THAT THE KID WAS SUPPOSED TO LEAVE THE MOTHER DECIDE TO STAY AND MY SON LOSES HIS SPOT. AFTER I PAY, AND I CALL TO CONFORM EVERTHING IS OK. THEY CALL ME TO TELL ME THAT!!!! HORRIBLE ORGANIZATION, HORRIBLE CARE, IDK HOW THEY STILL OPEN.... BECAUSE THEY DONT ACCOMPLISH WITH WORK OR IF A CHILD. WORSE PLACE EVER!!!!!!!!

Ta
Review №20

This school is very unprofessional. Besides the teacher in the 1-2s class, the girl in the 2-3s and the girl in classroom next to the office are just over paid babysitters. After my child was there for only a few weeks the director Marisol came to me to state that my child may have ADHD. NO, this wasnt based on medical findings or proper testing. This was because my (2 1/2yo at the time) child doesnt want to just sit down and play with baby blocks or read quietly in a corner. He likes to be challenged in his work. He likes to interact with his friends AND his teachers. But thats hard to do when your teacher is sitting in a chair all day. Mind you she was young and capable of moving about. She even brought a chair outside to sit down and watch the children play. REALLY?!!! Go interact with your students. Push them on swings go down the slide etc. This babysitter also stated that during free play my child took Lego blocks, built a tower on top of a table then knocked it while playing and laughing. HES A BOY THATS WHAT THEY DO!!! Anyways she went on to say that while she was scolding him he wouldnt look at her in the face. LOL. What child likes to be scolded? Most schools receive funding for having ADHD children. Well that wasnt going to be the case with my son. I wasnt stuffing him with medication just because hes not a quiet cookie cutter kid. Every child is not the same and therefore will not learn and play the same. When completely a teaching degree you are taught this thinking process and you are taught how to adapt to each child and develop a learning curriculum that fits ALL children. Like a previous comment (which is not fake and holds truth) Marisol is very rude and will try to over talk you. When she suggested that my child needs more one on one time, her recommendation didnt correlate with the process. She suggested my child drop from FT to PT so that the teacher could spend more time with him. No sweetie that would be LESS time. As she asked me and the father daily if we were doing the PT schedule and us repeatedly telling her no cause our jobs do not let us out at the noon pick up time, she stated that they couldnt keep him any longer and to remove him from school. WOW! A school that cant handle active playful toddlers! Like I said OVER PAID BABYSITTERS NOT TEACHERS. Needless to say things got worst, (i.e. placing my child at a table by himself with his name tag on the desk away from his friends- I took pictures of this) I avoided the staff completely until my childs time was up (the week I had already paid for) I didnt have another school picked out as I like to do my due diligence before placing my kids into daycare, but I removed him anyways. I dont want my child anywhere theyre not wanted. This wasnt my childs first daycare. Hes been in daycare since he was 8 weeks. Since moving to Orlando finding him a daycare near home/work had been a challenge. No one wants to actually teach anymore or the facilities are trash. He did attend a nice daycare out in Hunters Creek but the distance from our jobs made it hard to get there for pickup due to traffic. But we may have to make that sacrifice since our childs learning is our top priority. Oh yes, and the girl teaching in the classroom next to the office came out into the hallway/lobby area complaining that a child of hers didnt use the restroom on her scheduled time and was now holding up the class from going to recess because he needed to go. Unprofessional to come out into the lobby in front of parents like that and you mean to tell me you cant hold the class for a minute so your student can use the facilities?! SMH!

ja
Review №21

Not to teach children, a little racial discrimination, attitude is very bad

Li
Review №22

Staff who knows and cares about your child.

Th
Review №23

My daughter attended this day care for almost 3 years in which she was very happy. Her teachers were always very professional, loving and attentive to all her needs. I highly recommend this day care. they also prepared her excellently for her Kindergarten.thanks to Da Vinci Pre School Academy

Ne
Review №24

I am the father of a student who was at Da Vinci Academy until 2 weeks ago.I recommend this institution to all parents who are close to Metrowest and areas near Valencia College. In the area there is no Academy with qualified and professional personnel.We parents, we leave for many hours of the day and we do not really know who we are giving our most precious treasure to, without a doubt, during these 3 years of relationship we did not have any problems and we are very happy because our daughter started her k Garden and was evidence that the work in the institution was of quality

Li
Review №25

My grandson attends the group from a3 to o4 years !! 😀

ma
Review №26

A place where the lack of professionalism and communication by its management personnel leaves much to be desired. I do not recommend it

Sa
Review №27

Good price and very professional

CA
Review №28

Eternally grateful for the support, human warmth and professionalism in the adaptation process of my child in his initial school stage, always with a smile, the best treatment and the appropriate methodology made my sons experience of my wife and the my own in DA VINCI ACADEMY a gratifying, fruitful and unforgettable experience, and our son in his new school stage is perfectly adapted and above all very happyzzzzzz, GRACIASSSSSSSS DA VINCI ACADEMY are the best, GRACIASSSSS FOREVER. POST DATA: I dont cry a bit anymore, Guillermo, thanks for everything !!!!!!

So
Review №29

Good experience, friendly and kind treatment with the teachers and principal.Recommended!

Je
Review №30

If you are looking for a place where your children feel at home, look no further, this is the right place.The director, the best, thinks in every detail to offer them unique experiences.If you want your kids to feel like home this is the place to go :)Best Director Ever!

An
Review №31

Excellent school !!! Wonderful staff

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  • Address:1901 Park Center Dr, Orlando, FL 32835, United States
  • Site:https://www.davinci-academy.com/
  • Phone:+1 407-290-5437
Categories
  • After school program
  • Preschool
  • Day care center
  • Learning center
Working hours
  • Monday:6:30AM–6:30PM
  • Tuesday:6:30AM–6:30PM
  • Wednesday:6:30AM–6:30PM
  • Thursday:6:30AM–6:30PM
  • Friday:6:30AM–6:30PM
  • Saturday:Closed
  • Sunday:Closed
Service options
  • Online classes:Yes
  • Onsite services:Yes
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