Statesville · Licensed family home
Lil Steppers Childcare Academy
- Larger family home, licensed for up to 10 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 7 licensing inspections since August 2023.
Of the 33 Charlotte-area family homes with 7 licensing inspections, 15% had rules cited at 1 of them, as this home did. 6% had none cited.
Licensing inspections
Feb 15, 20242 citations
“Operator has not completed ITS-SIDS training every three years from the completion date of the previous ITS-SIDS training. The operators ITS-SIDS expired on 10/8/23. ITS-SIDS training was completed on 11/14/23.”
Violation corrected during visit
“Indoor and outdoor area was not checked daily for debris, vandalism, broken equipment, and animal waste. On the outdoor play I observed a broken piece of lattice exposing sharp edges. The operator removed the lattice from the play area during today's visit.”
Violation corrected during visit
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — North Carolina DCDEE
- Last visit
- September 14, 2026
- On file
- 7 visits since August 2023 — 6 cited nothing, 6 of those unannounced
- Fixed?
- All 2 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.
Feb 2024 Unannounced visit 2 findings
Unannounced visit · February 15, 2024
Operator has not completed ITS-SIDS training every three years from the completion date of the previous ITS-SIDS training. The operators ITS-SIDS expired on 10/8/23. ITS-SIDS training was completed on 11/14/23.
Violation corrected during visit
Indoor and outdoor area was not checked daily for debris, vandalism, broken equipment, and animal waste. On the outdoor play I observed a broken piece of lattice exposing sharp edges. The operator removed the lattice from the play area during today's visit.
Violation corrected during visit
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 49000375 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
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Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
Details
- Address
- 138 Spring Shore Road
- License
- 49000375, active
- Quality program
- Four Star License
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All checked July 2026.
State record
From North Carolina DCDEE’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License, Quality program ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 49000375 under License Number, and open the result.
Larger means licensed for 9 to 10 children, among Charlotte-area’s 137 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 5 to 7; mid-size is 8.