Creative World School

My daughter spent almost three years at Creative World in Lee’s Summit, from October 2009-​August 2012 (ages 3 – 5). This was by far the best preschool experience she could have experienced. The teachers were loving, caring, and even gave us their cell phone #s when we left so we could keep in contact with them. There isn’t high teacher turnover at that school, and most of the teachers were there for the three years that my daughter was. Creative World is not a typical pre-​school, and it seems to be closer to a Montessori learning program. Kids learn by exploration and experimenting, and their Exploratorium allows them the opportunity to experience lots of different things. We only left because my daughter was starting kindergarten. If this location had a private kindergarten, we would’ve kept her there.
After our first parent/​teacher conference in kindergarten, we knew that Creative World had been the best place for our daughter. She was developmentally and academically ahead of the other students in her class, and I attribute that to the education and care she got while attending Creative World.

Overall, my kids spent almost 2 yrs at this daycare.
After my older girl went through their preschool (which is not a preschool — but just a more organized daycare in my opinion) we decided that my younger should transfer to an actual preschool. Luckily for us our older was very self driven and it didn’t seem to matter that she wasn’t getting much direction. But, her kindergarten teacher made several comments at our first conference that it was obvious she had never been in a school setting.
Also, several of the kids seemed out of control and the teachers did not really know how to handle them properly. When we knew we were transferring out my younger daughter we left her in the younger class instead of transferring her up with her classmates because several of them were agressive and she was refusing to go.
This is an ok daycare compared to most other options in the price range and area, but don’t expect a preschool education from them. They are just watching your kids while you are at work.