Rocky River Elem. Pre-K

Center · Concord · 5454 Rocky River Road

What kind of place is this?

Size 36 children licensed Smaller than the middle half of Charlotte centers, where the middle half licenses 50–162. Measured across 598 Charlotte centers, 2026-08-17.

How this compares

North Carolina DCDEE cited something at 3 of the 4 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.

Will it fit our family?

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

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
October 2, 2025
On file
4 visits since January 2024 — 1 cited nothing, 1 of those unannounced
Fixed?
All 9 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.

Oct 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Apr 2025 Unannounced visit 3 findings

Unannounced visit · April 28, 2025

All staff records, except financial records, were not made available for review. A staff member hired on 2/25/10 did not have a file available for review.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 5/12/2025

The center did not complete an EPR Plan within four months of completing the EPR in Child Care training and/or the Plan was not completed on a template provided by the Division. There was not a completed EPR plan posted or available for review.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 5/12/2025

Health and safety training topics were not included as part of on-going training within five years of completing the previous health and safety training topics. A staff member hired on 8/20/18 did not complete all health and safety trainings within five years of taking health and safety trainings previously.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 5/12/2025

DCDEE facility lookup

Nov 2024 Unannounced visit 2 findings

Unannounced visit · November 12, 2024

The child care administrator and all staff did not complete the Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. A staff member hired on 11/6/23 did not have a Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment certificate on file and available for review.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 11/20/2024

Staff did not complete the health and safety training within one year of employment. A staff member hired on 11/6/23 did not complete the required health and safety trainings within one year.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 11/20/2024

DCDEE facility lookup

Jan 2024 Unannounced visit 4 findings

Unannounced visit · January 4, 2024

All staff did not successfully complete certification in First Aid appropriate to the age of children in care. Verification of staff completion of First Aid training from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. Two staff members did not have a current First Aid Certificate.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 1/18/2024

All staff did not successfully complete certification in CPR training appropriate to the age of the children in care. Verification of staff completion of the CPR course from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. Two staff members do not have current CPR training.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 1/18/2024

The Prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome and Abusive Head Trauma policy was not reviewed with new staff prior to providing care with children and/or a signed acknowledgement with all the required information was not maintained in the staff person's file. Substitute staff did not have a signed acknowledgement of the Shaken Baby Syndrome and Abusive Head Trauma policy.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 1/18/2024

The child care administrator and all staff did not complete the Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Substitute staff did not complete the Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 1/18/2024

DCDEE facility lookup

Before you tour

Rocky River Elem. Pre-K 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.

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.

Do you run Rocky River Elem. Pre-K? Shortlist has no tuition, hours or ratios for it, because the state does not publish that. Add what is missing. It is free and takes about ten minutes.