Elgin · Licensed center

The Ivy Academy & Early Learning

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 4 of its 7 licensing inspections since July 2014.

Of the 157 Chicago-area centers with 7 licensing inspections, 13% had rules cited at 4 of them, as this center did. 40% had rules cited at all 7.

Licensing inspections

Apr 3, 2025No rules cited
Apr 18, 2024No rules cited
Jul 8, 20212 citations

  • Qualifications for Early Childhood Teachers and School-age Workers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.140(h)

  • Program Requirements for All Ages

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(p)

Apr 28, 2021No rules cited
Sep 22, 201412 citations

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(6)

  • Qualifications for Early Childhood Teachers and School-age Workers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.140

  • Grouping and Staffing

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(5)

8 more from this inspection

  • Staffing Structure

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(d)

  • Staffing Structure

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)

Sep 4, 201418 citations

  • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(18)

  • Grouping and Staffing

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(6)

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(6)(e)

14 more from this inspection

  • Program Requirements for All Ages

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(r)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)(3)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)(9)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)(10)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)(11)

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(1)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)(1)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)(4)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)(5)

  • Staffing Structure

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(b)

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCA43.

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCA83.

Jul 3, 20141 citation

  • Nutrition and Meal Service

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(k)(1)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
April 3, 2025
On file
7 visits since July 2014 — 3 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was August 11, 2021. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
Most serious
Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.

Apr 2025 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Apr 2024 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Jul 2021 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · July 8, 2021

Qualifications for Early Childhood Teachers and School-age Workers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.140(h) · Violation corrected

Program Requirements for All Ages

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(p) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 530139 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Apr 2021 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Sep 2014 Monitoring visit 12 findings

Monitoring visit · September 22, 2014

Personnel Records

7 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) through (6) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · 407.120(a)(1) · 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(a)(5) · 407.120(a)(6)

Staffing Structure

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) through (d) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) · 407.90(d)

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected

Qualifications for Early Childhood Teachers and School-age Workers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.140 · Violation corrected

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a) · Violation corrected on site

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 530139 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2014 Monitoring visit 18 findings

Monitoring visit · September 4, 2014

General Requirements for Personnel

8 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a) through (11) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a) · 407.100(a)(1) · 407.100(a)(3) · 407.100(a)(4) · 407.100(a)(5) · 407.100(a)(9) · 407.100(a)(10) · 407.100(a)(11)

Guidance and Discipline

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(1) through (6)(e) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(1) · 407.270(c)(6) · 407.270(c)(6)(e)

Organization and Administration

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70 · Violation corrected on site

Staffing Structure

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(b) · Violation corrected on site

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190 · Violation corrected on site

Program Requirements for All Ages

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(r) · Violation corrected

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(18) · Violation corrected

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCA43.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCA83.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 530139 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2014 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · July 3, 2014

Nutrition and Meal Service

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(k)(1) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 530139 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

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.

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Address
545 Hiawatha Dr
License
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All checked August 2026.

State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "THE IVY ACADEMY & EARLY LEARNING" under Provider Name and 60120 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 530139).

Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.