Brown's Little Shepherds

Home · Kings Mountain · 849 Mountain Crest Drive

What kind of place is this?

Size 10 children licensed Larger than at least half of Charlotte home daycares, which license 8. Measured across 141 Charlotte home daycares, 2026-08-17.

How this compares

North Carolina DCDEE cited something at 2 of the 5 visits below. Across Charlotte home daycares it cites something at about 44% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Charlotte with Charlotte and never with another state.

Will it fit our family?

Accepts subsidy Yes

What will it cost us?

This provider does not publish pricing.

What Shortlist has verified

State quality rating Five Star License
License status Active

State record — North Carolina DCDEE

Last visit
March 4, 2026
On file
5 visits since October 2023 — 3 cited nothing, 3 of those unannounced
Fixed?
All 3 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 nothing cited
Oct 2025 Unannounced visit 1 finding

Unannounced visit · October 23, 2025

Operator and/or staff who work with children, did not complete health and safety training as part of on-going training so that every five years, all the topic areas were covered. The receipt of completion of the Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training was not on file and available for review.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 11/5/2025

DCDEE facility lookup

May 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Nov 2024 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Oct 2023 Unannounced visit 2 findings

Unannounced visit · October 12, 2023

Copy of each child's health assessment, including the operator's own preschool child(ren), was not on file within 30 days of enrollment. One child, enrolled on 3/25/23, did not have a health assessment on file.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/31/2023

Vehicle used for transportation did not have a fire extinguisher. The vehicle used to transport children did not have a fire extinguisher.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/25/2023

DCDEE facility lookup

Before you tour

Brown's Little Shepherds 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.

All checked July 2026.

What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

Will it fit our family

Not yet reported: ages served, 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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