Earlier reviews are from previous ownership. My 3 year old started here in August and she LOVES it. They get a LOT of outside time. They are outside at least 3 times a day which I love. The Staff is WONDERFUL. My daughter has Ms. Veronica who is fantastic and so fun! She's always engaging with them thru stories, games, dance (they dance everyday) and art. All the Staff and new owner, Marisol, are super nice, happy and caring people. What's really cool is just about every week or two there's an event, field trip (these are optional) and/or theme. The Staff go all out and decorate the building and classrooms. And the Staff dress up for them too. A few weeks ago they took a field trip to the main library. Last week they did a Bear Hunt event on the playground. This week they took the kids to Catty Shack Wildlife Sanctuary. And every day, Veronica and the teachers fill out a report sheet for the day for the parent that says what their child had for lunch, how long they slept and who they played with etc. Carmen always comes home happy with nothing but good things to say. This place is truly a gem! read more

I'm not sure about the older reviews here, but we absolutely love Intercoastal Kids. My child has been attending this school for about a year now as a VPK student and he has learned so much. Mrs. Eliza is great, all the students love and look up to her. Communication from the school is great, we receive nightly calls from Miss Jazmine, the schools director, with updates and what's upcoming. They take monthly field trips and keep the children engaged. Their rates are comparable to most other preschools and day cares. In all the time my child has been there, the school has always been clean, and I've never witnessed any issues as stated in the previous reviews. Now as far as children contracting bugs and other illnesses, it is common for children, especially when introduced to new germs (preschools are incubators for this type of stuff), I recommend probiotics to boost your child's immune system. Especially over the first few months. The educational aspect has been great, and I'm confident my child will have all the skills necessary to begin Kindergarten this fall. I don't write a lot of reviews, but felt like the ones for this page were pretty unjustified, perhaps there was different owners or staff at that time. Our experience has been fantastic and I would recommend Intercoastal Kids to my friends and family. read more

lead teacher: Horrible place to work, kids are hardly fed proper portions of food, the teachers are required to pick up food off the ground, the children eat out side all the time even when it's cold. No advance for the employees, and the owner will try to destroy your professional career as a childcare provider by giving you a bad references and will try to short check or not pay you if you leave and go to another facility. Please if your a parent or childcare provider avoid this place. read more

While searching for a new school for my daughter, I came across Intercoastal Kids and wanted to leave a review of my experience with the school, hopefully to save you time and money. My daughter attended Intercoastal Kids for about 6 months. During this time she contracted hand, foot, and mouth, lice and scabies (which was the last straw for us). This place is a dump! My wife picked our daughter up on several occasions and the toilets were overflowing with feces, the rooms had a very bad odor, and cockroaches were seen running across the same floor that my daughter slept on! The only half way decent feature was the camera system, but it took the owners a month to get me codes and it did not work half the time! We were asked to sign a form stating that we were aware of the new ownership and name change. We did not sign the paper, but we did notice the same owners were still popping in and out of the building, which was very shady in my opinion, so I began researching. I will tell you that as you are looking for a school to place your child in, be sure to look not only on review websites , but public court records as well. This will show if a business has not paid taxes in several years and other issues. Another good website is https://vpk.fldoe.org/ this website will show you the VPK test scores from previous years. Just click on the Readiness Rate Search to the left of the screen. This school is a low performing provider. I would quit my job and do without before I would send my child back to this school. Most of the staff was nice. The owners (Mr. & Mrs. Prevost) were very shady and rude as was the sister who I was told was also part owner. PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE SENDING YOUR CHILD HERE!!!!! read more

* The owner doesn't have director credential. The director of the school is the same teacher who has to take care of a classroom of 40 VPK students. They don't have a person in charge of just cleaning the school you can see how the same teacher and director need to clean animal cages and classrooms. You usually never see the owner around because she is busy taking care of her other two business. With all the money that she is making she should hire a real director and a person to clean the school and classroom, and not let all the responsibilities to one person (VPK teacher, director and cleaner, ah and animal cage cleaner). They take long time just to start the class trying to control 40 kids in a classroom. Children watched too much TV during the day, and every day. I see them washing TV every morning and every afternoon. They are usually long 80min movies "Scooby Doo". You NEVER see them cooking in their tiny room called kitchen; they only use a microwave and a can opener, because they only eat frozen, can food. The fruits they said they serve is just can fruit. The classroom and the carpet are dirty. The classroom is full of dust. Look like they never had clean down the computer tables o other tables. It is too many kids in the classroom that they do not have space for their jacket and jackets are always on that dirty carpet. They DO NOT ASK KIDS TO WASH THEIR HANDS before eating. They constantly from the classroom line up to go outside and eat outside in the playground, where kids play and came back to eat with dirty hands. read more

I toured the school and was impressed upon arrival. The Director, Ms. Jamie and Assnt Director Ms.Becky were amazing, but that was as far as my wonderful impression lasted. I read reviews, but wanted to give them the benefit of doubt. We arrived at lunch time, which was what looked to be a bologna sandwich, actually 1/4 of a sandwich and 2 or 3 cheese puffs on a desert size paper plate. After speaking to the toddler teacher who I could not even understand, we went to the 3 yr old class only to find children running around the class with no teacher in the classroom!! She was at the end of the 10 x 5 foot classroom changing diapers!! Classrooms are very tiny and very dirty. We stopped by the VPK Class only to find the lead Teacher yelling at a child in a little center area. I got out of there as fast as I could!! Please so your research! After doing further research I discovered the name had just been changed. The reason being change of ownership, but come to find out its the same owners....maybe they are trying to hide from their failing Vpk TEST scores or other reasons I found after searching specific names in public records. I would not recommend this school to anyone. read more

My child attended this school for close to a year and I would not recommend it to anyone! The first 8 or 9 months were ok, the food was disgusting! I picked my child up during lunch time and found them eating bologna sandwiches and chips. Let me rephrase, a half a sandwich and chips. My child came home with bite marks every other day, but the owners would do nothing about it. I left several messages for the owners to call back, but no return call.. The last straw was when I dropped my child off and all the teachers, the director, and assistant director were all gone. 6 people gone in one month. I was given 3 different stories as to why, but I did get the truth when I ran into a former employee and it was way different from the lie I was given by the owner. Please read all reviews before enrolling your child at this place and if it looks strange that there's one bad review and the next day there is 10 good ones with a few hours, there's a reason! Upon reading other reviews you can see who the good reviews came from!! The owners!! Haha read more