JCA Academy

Reduction in number of children Enrollment

Director – Sheila John
Administrator – Fumi Adeyemi

Overview
JCA Academy is a child-care center that was open this year. At the beginning the Academy faced the usual challenges a normal child care will face that opened late in a school year. Such challenges are enrollment problem as all children will be placed in a stable child care facility already and only if they are to leave the facility that they will change and look for new child care facility.
After a couple of month, the academy became full though not to the required capacity but with sixty children in attendance. Summer came with understand that parents tend to keep their children home with older siblings or with visiting relations and the numbers dropped to forty kids.
Now in August, the expectation was to increase the numbers of children to eighty; double of what we had in summer, since school starts back and most of the children that left promised to return. The returning children and new enrollment where to make up the eight children but the academy lost fifteen children and a month after school had started the enrollment is at thirty five.
I am the Administrator for JCA Academy and I am among the first employees to be employed by the company in January. Within these eight months I have worked with JCA and witnessed all staff being laid off while other staffs walk out either due to reduced number of hours or low wages.
I am prepared to help solve the issue at hand; children leaving and not coming back and those that came to tour and not returning either. Therefore I would like to research why children are not enrolled as expected and using one of our threads about reward might be useful in this project. Through this research I plan to write out the preliminary steps and outline for JCA to become one of the leading childcare