Unlimited Praise Christian Academy

Center · Cherryville · 700 1/2 North Mountain Street

What kind of place is this?

Size 54 children licensed In the middle half for 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 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.

Will it fit our family?

Accepts subsidy Yes

What will it cost us?

This provider does not publish pricing.

What Shortlist has verified

License status Active

State record — North Carolina DCDEE

Last visit
July 28, 2026
On file
6 visits since September 2023 — 4 cited nothing, 4 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.

Jul 2026 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Jan 2026 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Aug 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Jan 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Aug 2024 Unannounced visit 2 findings

Unannounced visit · August 29, 2024

Operator has not scheduled and obtained a fire inspection within 12 months of the previous inspection. Operator did not submit the original approved report to DCDEE within one week of the inspection visit on a form provided by the Division. The fire inspection on file for review was dated June 6, 2024. The previous fire inspection was dated April 21, 2023.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 9/5/2024

Center staff did not comply with the safe sleep policy. The program’s Safe Sleep Policy was not followed. In space #1B, one (1) infant under the age of 12 months was placed on her stomach to sleep and there was no written sleep waiver available for review.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 9/5/2024

DCDEE facility lookup

Sep 2023 Unannounced visit 1 finding

Unannounced visit · September 7, 2023

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. Four employees who completed Health & Safety training in 2017 did not complete all eleven areas in 2022. Administration of Medication, with standards for Parental consent, and Recognizing and reporting child abuse, child neglect, and maltreatment were not completed within five years.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 9/20/2023

DCDEE facility lookup

Before you tour

Unlimited Praise Christian Academy 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.

Do you run Unlimited Praise Christian Academy? 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.