La Petite Academy reviews

4.3

87% would recommend to a friend

(1,413 total reviews)

John Bork

85% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

La Petite Academy has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,413 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The La Petite Academy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Mar 6, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The company, itself, as a whole offers a great benefit package to its full time employees. Seven paid holidays, 120 hrs. of paid sick time, 40 hr vacation time that acrues after your first year anniversary with the company, not to mention all the sick time that accumulates immediately after employment. This company offers an automatic 401k plan of enrollment after 90 days of employment. Also, you are entitled to a annual review for performace plan increase. You are to believe that if there are any problems you can contact your chain of command while trying to resolve any isues.

Cons

While the benefit package includes holiday pay it only goes by the hours you are schudeled to work or normally work, meaning you work 6 hrs you get paid 5.25 hrs for that holiday, also know one works 40 hrs a week. Sick time taken rusults in an occurance, meaning a write up, eith or without an doctors note. So having the companies insurance can get you fired, if you use whats given to you. Also vacation time, sick time is hardly ever approved, resulting in the loss of your unused vacation time. Also, no Fair treatment policy is obided.

2.0
Nov 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

At La Petite Academy, Human Resources is willing to take a risk on people to see if they are capable of doing a job. You do not have to have 100 years of experience to get a staff job here. This does provide opportunity to people who need a chance. I strongly believe that Vice President of Human Resources truly cares about the Associates, both professionaly and personally. There is also a broad amount of work that needs to be done. There is opportunity to take on as much work as once cares to ty. Someone can create an excellent niche for someone.

Cons

At La Petite Academy, Management actively searches for people who are moderately qualified for positions to ensure a mild amount of competence while not having to pay full market value. Game playing and favourtism are a norm for this organization. Don't bother trying to make a full career at this company. You can probably get a job there, but you will get paid poorly, won't get any recognition, and will most likely be shocked about how bad the IT systems are. Once, one of the main servers at the company went down for 3 days. After three days of analysis, it was determined that the server was unplugged.

4.0
Nov 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best reasons to work for La Petite Academy are because 1. reduced tuition if you have children, 2. it has a wonderful curriculum that truly enhances childrens knowledge, and 3. because you get to influence the lives of children and watch them grow.

Cons

Some of the downsides of working for La Petite Academy include that the pay is low for the amount of work and dedication that must be put into the day to day activities and interactions with the children. In addition, the company does not give very significant annual raises to its employees.

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