Alliance Center For Education-University

Center · Charlotte · 6442 N. Tryon Street

What kind of place is this?

Size 65 children licensed In the middle half for Charlotte centers, where the middle half licenses 50–162. Measured across 598 Charlotte centers, 2026-08-17.
Established 1940

Who runs it

Ownership Non-profit Registered 501(c)(3), EIN 56-0543244 — IRS Exempt Organization file, matched to the licensee North Carolina DCDEE names. ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov

How this compares

North Carolina DCDEE cited something at 2 of the 6 visits below. Across Charlotte centers it cites something at about 57% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Charlotte with Charlotte and never with another state.

Who will be with our child?

Will it fit our family?

Ages served birth to 4 years old

What will it cost us?

This provider does not publish pricing.

What Shortlist has verified

State quality rating Five Star License
License status Active
Website ac4ed.org

State record — North Carolina DCDEE

Last visit
March 25, 2026
On file
6 visits since March 2025 — 4 cited nothing, 2 of those unannounced
Fixed?
All 2 record a correction, in the licensor’s own words.
Most serious
North Carolina DCDEE does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

North Carolina DCDEE describes every citation in the licensor’s own words and records the correction in that same text — the only one of the six states that publishes whether a violation was fixed. It attaches no rule number and no report document.

Mar 2026 Unannounced visit 1 finding

Unannounced visit · March 25, 2026

Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. A child's medication authorization for did not include the parent's signature.

Violation corrected during visit

DCDEE facility lookup

Sep 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Aug 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
May 2025 Unannounced visit 1 finding

Unannounced visit · May 8, 2025

Menus for all meals and snacks were not current or posted where easily seen by parents and cook. A posted menu was not updated with the current information regarding a substitution made for the fruit option on menu.

Violation corrected during visit

DCDEE facility lookup

Apr 2025 Announced visit nothing cited
Mar 2025 Announced visit nothing cited

Before you tour

Alliance Center For Education-University hasn’t published

Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.

Ask which of these findings were serious.North Carolina DCDEE records the correction in its own words, but never says how serious it was.

Sources and dates

Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.

What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: teaching approach.

Who runs it

Who will be with our child

Not yet reported: children per teacher.

Will it fit our family

  • Ages served — Checked July 2026 · ac4ed.org

Not yet reported: hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.

Licensing and contact

State record

Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.

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