Unincorporated Snohomish County · Licensed center
Wee Care Academy
At a glance
- Medium emergent curriculum center, licensed for 68 children.
- Hours 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., 5 days a week.
- Tuition Infant $2,815, toddler $2,598, preschool $2,143 a month, full time. See costs
- Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.
From their website, read August 2026:
“Preschool- Butterflies: Ages 3-4.5 years old; Up to 16 children with 2 teachers Pre-Kindergarten- Dragonflies: Ages 4-6 years old; Up to 20 children with 2 teachers Classroom Move-Ups and Transitions”
From their website, read July 2026:
“Roly Polies: Age 6 weeks -1 year; Up to 4 children with 1 teacher”
“Caterpillars: Ages 1-2.5 years old; Up to 10 children with 2 teachers Ladybugs: Ages 2-3.5 years old; Up to 12 children with 2 teachers”
The state’s rule
Washington sets the most children one adult may care for by age, and the largest group size, in WAC 110-300-0356(5).
Infants (birth through 11 months): one adult for every four.
Toddlers (12 through 29 months): one adult for every seven.
Preschoolers (30 months through 6 years, not in kindergarten): one adult for every ten.
School-age children: one adult for every fifteen.
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 no rules at any of its 3 licensing inspections since January 2024. It lists no valid complaint about this center.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Apr 7, 2026Nothing cited
- Apr 30, 2025Nothing cited
- Jan 24, 2024Nothing cited
The state cited no rules at any of this center's 3 inspections. Most Seattle-area centers inspected 3 times had at least one: 88% of 364.
How all 364 Seattle-area centers inspected 3 times compare
Of the 364 Seattle-area centers the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None12%This center
- 1 of 321%
- 2 of 335%
- All 333%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Washington DCYF
- Last visit
- April 7, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since January 2024 — all of them cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Nothing was cited, so there is nothing to correct.
- Most serious
- Nothing was cited at any visit on file.
Washington DCYF publishes each citation in the licensor’s own words, with a risk level.
What it costs
Wee Care AcademyMost Seattle-area prices (middle 80%)
Monthly, full time. The band is the middle 80% of Seattle-area full-time prices for that age; 56 infant, 82 toddler and 113 preschool programs publish one.
- Part time
- $1,117 to $1,793 a month
- Application fee
- $100
- Siblings
- 5% off your total tuition if more than one child is enrolled at the same time
A day here
7 a.m. to 6 p.m., 5 days a week
Meals, outdoors, sleep and four more
- Meals
- Early morning snack, breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack and evening snack served daily; CACFP participant; nut-free kitchen and classrooms
- Outdoors
- Outside multiple times a day for 30-90 minute periods; kept inside above 100F, below 20F, or AQI above 100
- Sleep
- Scheduled rest period 1:00-2:30pm with nap mats
- Diapers
- Parents/families provide diapers
- Updates for parents
- Procare app (daily/weekly reports, photos, messaging), quarterly newsletter, FlashAlert closure alerts, winter parent-teacher conference
- Schedule
- Full-week and part-week (2-5 days/week options)
- Closed
- 11 holidays and breaks a year
Dates
Closed New Year's Day, MLK Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, July 5th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the Friday after, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, plus two professional development days a year; early closings on Thanksgiving Eve, New Year's Eve and July 4th
How they teach
Emergent curriculum and play-based
“An emergent curriculum is a way of planning curriculum that is based on the children’s interest and passion at a certain point in time.”
Who cares for your child
Jordan Braswell (Administrative Director) since 2013, Kristy Dykes (Academy Director) since 2013 and Rebecca Aquino (Program Supervisor) since 2016.
13 years · Seattle-area median 13, among 77 that publish
Policies
- When a child is sick
- Parent must pick up within 1 hour for fever of 100.4 or higher, repeated vomiting or loose stools, and other listed symptoms; physician note may be requested to return
Details
- Phone
- (425) 743-0907
- Address
- 16727 Alderwood Mall Parkway, Unincorporated Snohomish County, 98037
- License
- PL-20477
- Quality program
- Early Achievers Level 3+
We couldn’t find some information that may matter to your decision: openings and Working Connections subsidy. We can ask the program for you and copy you in.
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.
Children per adult
- Children per adult — Checked August 2026 weecareacademy.org/…/d346ab_46ea3aaead874fec99a3c215fddcd1da.pdf
How they teach
- Approach — Checked October 2026 weecareacademy.org/…/d346ab_46ea3aaead874fec99a3c215fddcd1da.pdf
Who cares for your child
- Staff weecareacademy.org/copy-of-our-curriculum-1
- Staff weecareacademy.org/…/288453_883e7327d6594aa19490c7ddda04251c.pdf
What it costs
- Infant, Toddler, Preschool, Second price — Checked July 2026 weecareacademy.org/…/d346ab_1e59d1bb5e904c5280cf76767a52ae5c.pdf
- Application fee, Sibling discount — Checked September 2026 weecareacademy.org
State record
From Washington DCYF’s published reports, last checked November 3, 2026.
Ages
A day here
- Meals, Outdoors, Sleep, Updates for parents, Hours, Closed — Checked July 2026 weecareacademy.org/…/d346ab_46ea3aaead874fec99a3c215fddcd1da.pdf
- Diapers — Checked August 2026 weecareacademy.org/…/d346ab_46ea3aaead874fec99a3c215fddcd1da.pdf
- Schedule — Checked July 2026 weecareacademy.org/…/d346ab_1e59d1bb5e904c5280cf76767a52ae5c.pdf
Policies
- When a child is sick — Checked July 2026 weecareacademy.org/…/d346ab_46ea3aaead874fec99a3c215fddcd1da.pdf
Details
- Phone, Ages on the license — Checked September 2026 findchildcarewa.org
- Website — Checked July 2026 weecareacademy.org
- Address, License — Checked June 2026 data.wa.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.wa.gov
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 projects.propublica.org
Medium means the middle half of Seattle-area’s 855 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 41 to 115 children. Small is 6 to 40; large is 116 to 323.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.