Chesterbrook Academy Preschool

Chesterbrook Academy is an absolute abomination. To start, the amount of internal turnover within this «school» is extremely alarming. It seems as if there are new «teachers» coming in and out on a weekly basis. I’ve also seen various «teachers» smoking cigarettes on the property during normal hours. My daughter has come home crying because of the way «teachers» have spoken to her on numerous occasions. After bringing this to the attention of the «principal», it happened again and nothing changed
The «school» is absolutely filthy, and it’s no surprise that there has been a staggering amount of lice outbreaks within the last year. The toys and other classroom items are all old, outdated and appear to be hand-​me-​downs.
While they boast to prepare your children for kindergarten, this «school» is really just a poorly ran day care. The curriculum is not approved by the state of Maryland.
If you’re looking for a great place to nurture you child’s early development, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere. This «school» has nothing to offer other than a place to drop your kids off and get poor child care at best.

My LO has now been going here for about 5 months. Although I have nothing to compare CBA against, I can say that my LO loves her teachers and is learning a lot at the school. Like one other reviewer mentioned, there are some grammatical errors on the daily report my LO brings home, english is not the native language of 2 of the teachers in the class, but neither is it mine, so who am I to judge. But the teachers treat my LO with love, kindness and respect and thats enough for me.
I still havent given them 4 stars because the last time I was there, I noticed that the teachers didnt change gloves between changing diapers of the kids. Granted they were not soiled diapers, but considering that the class had 2 episodes of Hand Foot and Mouth disease, they should be changing gloves between each change or wash hands after each change. The open restrooms are kind of smelly by evening coz I am thinking a lot of kids miss their aims !!
As for the weekly menu I mentioned earlier, they now write each day’s menu on white board at the reception (which may be different from the weekly one published earlier). But it is an improvement. The staff is friendly and I like I said what matters the most is that enough attention is paid to the kids and that I see here.

Update: 3÷2015−
My older son is now in the 6-​pre class with Ms. Deb — again, so impressed with the teacher and the assistants. My son loves school and I’m constantly impressed with the activities and projects. My 5 yr old can count to 100, count to 100 by 5’s and 10’s and his handwriting has drastically improved. My younger son is now in Mrs. Marlene’s class — she and the assistant teachers are amazing, love them all!
2014 — My 4 year old (‘C’) is in the 5-​pre class.Mrs. Marlene is wonderful! All of the kids love her and she is constantly including my younger son into activities when we come for pick-​up. I’m continually impressed but the content that is covered and the numerous art projects that C brings home. Will recommend to others and plan to send my two younger children as well.

I had my daughter in this preschool for a month and when I really saw what it was like, I pulled her out. Let me begin by saying, it is not a preschool, it is more a daycare. Yes they say they have a curriculum and they even post lesson plans in their rooms but when I really looked at it and compared it to the dittos that she was bringing home, I realized it was not a curriculum at all! And to top it off there were multiple spelling errors on the lesson plans, I dont want my daughter being taught by someone who cant spell! Multiple times when I came in to pick her up in the evening and tried to converse with the teacher, she was in the corner on her cell phone so I didnt even bother. The place is messy, children go to the bathroom without doors by themselves and the woman I spoke to at the front office had no idea as to what was happening. I advise you to strongly reconsider putting your children in here if you want quality education!