Blue Springs · Childcare
Learning Ladder
At a glance
- Licensed for 140 children.
- Tuition $225 to $335 a month; the age it is for isn’t stated. See costs
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 4 licensing inspections since September 2023.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Oct 6, 2025Nothing cited
- Oct 9, 2024Nothing cited
- Oct 30, 2023Nothing cited
Sep 8, 20231 citation
RSMo 210.254 Religious organization operating facilities exempt under licensing laws required to file parental notice of responsibility and fire, safety inspections annually. 3.
“A copy of the notice of parental responsibility was not filed annually during the month of August to the department of elementary and secondary education.”
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Missouri DESE Office of Childhood
- Last visit
- October 6, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since September 2023 — 3 cited nothing
- Most serious
- Missouri DESE Office of Childhood does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
Missouri DESE marks every rule section of an inspection Compliance, Violation or Not Observed, and for each violation publishes the inspector’s observation, the rule quoted in full, the correction required and a deadline. A complaint investigation is published where the state substantiated a rule violation, with its disposition.
Sep 2023 Supplemental visit 1 finding
Supplemental visit · September 8, 2023
RSMo 210.254 Religious organization operating facilities exempt under licensing laws required to file parental notice of responsibility and fire, safety inspections annually. 3. · No longer on the state’s site as of September 25, 2026
A copy of the notice of parental responsibility was not filed annually during the month of August to the department of elementary and secondary education.
Required correction: A copy of notice of parental responsibility, signed by the principal operating officer of the exempt child-care facility and the individual primarily responsible for the religious organization conducting the child-care facility and copies of the annual fire and safety inspections shall be filed annually during the month of August with the department of elementary and secondary education.
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What it costs
$225 to $335 a month
Kansas City-area comparison hidden until they say which age this price is for.
- Application fee
- $165
- Siblings
- 10% discount for the second and third child, given on the lower tuition rate
A day here
- Schedule
- 2-day, 3-day, or 4-day per week programs (the brand’s policy for all its schools)
How they teach
Faith-based
“Learning, Laughing, Growing in Christ ... We are an outreach program of First United Methodist Church as a nonprofit preschool”
Details
- Phone
- (816) 229-9949
- Address
- 301 SW Woods Chapel Rd, Blue Springs, 64015
- License
- 000224831
- Established
- 1971
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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.
How they teach
- Approach bluespringsumc.org
What it costs
- Monthly tuition, Application fee, Sibling discount bluespringsumc.org
State record
From Missouri DESE Office of Childhood’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
A day here
- Schedule bluespringsumc.org
Details
- Phone, Address, License healthapps.dhss.mo.gov/…/Facility.aspx
- Website bluespringsumc.org
- Ages they serve, Established bluespringsumc.org