Future Scholars Lafayette
LAFAYETTE, IN·Unlicensed Registered MinistryLicensed
Contact information
Address3733 Rome Drive, Lafayette, IN, 47905
CountyTIPPECANOE
Phone765-588-6700
Operating details
License dateJanuary 1, 2025
Compliance snapshot
Last inspection: 10/7/2024 · Counts cover the full published inspection history; search results show the past 2 years.
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- Medium-High9
- Medium7
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Location
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3733 Rome Drive, Lafayette, IN, 47905, LAFAYETTE, IN 47905
Questions to ask on a tour
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- This facility has food-service findings on its state record - ask how meals are prepared and how allergies are handled
- Ask how they keep enrollment, immunization, and emergency-contact records current - their state findings include documentation lapses
- Ask about teacher-to-child ratios and how supervision is maintained through the day
- Ask about their illness policy and which symptoms require a child to stay home
Violation summary
Last 2 years · Last inspection: 10/7/2024
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2024
- Medium riskStandard 47010/7/2024
470 IAC 3-4.5-6(d) — Diapers. The diapering process shall be done on a table, in a clean and sanitary manner. The diaper changing surface shall be sanitized after each use and materials used for skin cleansing shall be discarded after each use into a tigh
The diaper changing pad needs replaced as it has tears and is unsanitizable. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium risk10/7/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-8(c) — Records
Records: Make the documentation available to the division upon request Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - High riskStandard 47010/7/2024
470 IAC 3-4.5-5(c) — Refrigerator and Freezers. Enough conveniently located refrigeration facilities shall be provided to assure the maintenance of potentially hazardous food at required temperatures during storage. Refrigerators and freezers shall be in
The refridgerator needs a thermometor Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium-High riskStandard 47010/7/2024
470 IAC 3-4.5-4(1) — All interior surfaces, equipment, materials, furnishings, and objects with which children will come in contact shall be well maintained, in a clean and sanitary condition, and of nontoxic durable construction
The wall unit in the toddler room is coming apart and will need replaced. In the toddler room, 3 chairs do not have safety straps. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium-High risk10/7/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-12.5(a)(2) — Caregivers of children twelve (12) months of age and younger have completed the approved safe sleep training.
Caregivers of children twelve (12) months of age and younger have completed the approved safe sleep training. (Health violation.) Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium-High riskStandard 47010/7/2024
470 IAC 3-4.5-5(f) — Storage. Containers and packages of food, cleaned and sanitized utensils, equipment, and single-service articles shall be stored at least six (6) inches above the floor in a clean, dry location in such a way that protects them from co
There are multiple items in the kitchen that are open and not sealed and dated. Macaroni, biscuits, sausages, hotdog buns and cheese. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium-High riskStandard 47010/7/2024
470 IAC 3-4.5-4(1) — All interior surfaces, equipment, materials, furnishings, and objects with which children will come in contact shall be well maintained, in a clean and sanitary condition, and of nontoxic durable construction
On the playground the black tarp is exposed and a wooden post is exposed causing a tripping hazard. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium-High riskStandard 41010/7/2024
410 IAC 7-24-260 — Vended potentially hazardous food; original container
There are multiple items in the kitchen that are open and not sealed and dated. Macaroni, biscuits, sausages, hotdog buns and cheese. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium riskStandard 41010/7/2024
410 IAC 7-24-177 — Food storage
The food delivered in the classrooms was uncovered and sitting for a period of time before being served. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium-High risk10/7/2024
IC 12-17.2-6-11(a)(2) — The parent or guardian of a child shall, when the child is enrolled in a child care ministry, provide the child care ministry with proof that the child has received the required immunizations against the following: Whooping cough
3 children were missing immunization records on file Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - High risk10/7/2024
IC 12-17.2-6-14(1) — The child care ministry must do the following: Conduct a criminal history check of the child care ministrys employees and volunteers
A staff member unqualified was on site. (Health violation.) Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium riskStandard 47010/7/2024
470 IAC 3-4.5-6(d) — Diapers. The diapering process shall be done on a table, in a clean and sanitary manner. The diaper changing surface shall be sanitized after each use and materials used for skin cleansing shall be discarded after each use into a tigh
After a diaper change the child and staff member did not wash hands Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - High riskStandard 47010/7/2024
470 IAC 3-4.5-5(e)(2) — immersion for at least one (1) minute in clean water which is at a temperature of at least 75 F. and which contains an approved sanitizing agent at an effective concentration. Cleaned and sanitized equipment and utensils shall alwa
In the toddler room there was a bottle unlabeled with milk in it Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - High risk10/7/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-11(a) — A provider shall provide for a safe environment by ensuring that no conditions exist in or on the grounds of the facility where a provider operates a child care program that would endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the child
A provider shall provide for a safe environment by ensuring that no conditions exist in or on the grounds of the facility where a provider operates a child care program that would endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the children, including ensuring that the following items are placed in areas that are inaccessible to children in the providers care: Poisons, chemicals, and cleaning materials (Health violation.) Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium-High riskStandard 41010/7/2024
410 IAC 7-24-187 — Potentially hazardous food; hot and cold holding
Food was delivered uncovered and sat for a period of time before children were in the class Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - High riskStandard 47010/7/2024
470 IAC 3-4.5-5(c) — Refrigerator and Freezers. Enough conveniently located refrigeration facilities shall be provided to assure the maintenance of potentially hazardous food at required temperatures during storage. Refrigerators and freezers shall be in
There was not a thermometer in the freezer Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - High risk10/7/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-8(b)(3) — Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Abuse and Neglect Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - High risk10/7/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-12 — Each childcare provider, household member, employee, volunteer caregiver shall submit fingerprints for a national criminal history background check by the FBI or each childcare provider has local criminal check with documentation that
Each childcare provider, household member, employee, volunteer caregiver shall submit fingerprints for a national criminal history background check by the FBI or each childcare provider has local criminal check with documentation that national check is applied for. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium-High risk10/7/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-5.5(b) — A provider who cares for children who are less than 12 months of age shall complete a training course in safe sleep practices, approved by the Divison. Ensure that all caregivers of children who are less than 12 months of age fol
A provider who cares for children who are less than 12 months of age shall complete a training course in safe sleep practices, approved by the Divison. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium risk10/7/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-8(c) — Records
Records: Maintain at the facility where the provider operates a child care program documentation of all training required under this code Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - High risk9/24/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-12 — Each childcare provider, household member, employee, volunteer caregiver shall submit fingerprints for a national criminal history background check by the FBI or each childcare provider has local criminal check with documentation that
Each childcare provider, household member, employee, volunteer caregiver shall submit fingerprints for a national criminal history background check by the FBI or each childcare provider has local criminal check with documentation that national check is applied for. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium-High risk9/24/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-7(b) — Discipline
A provider shall: Ensure that all employees and volunteers follow the child discipline policy Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - High risk9/24/2024
IC 12-17.2-6-14(1) — The child care ministry must do the following: Conduct a criminal history check of the child care ministrys employees and volunteers
One unqualified staff member is not listed in the datatbase. (Health violation.) Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium risk9/24/2024
IC 12-17.2-3.5-4.1 — Each childcare provider has provided evidence that they have not been named in the State Central Registry IC31-33-18.
Each childcare provider has provided evidence that they have not been named in the State Central Registry IC31-33-18. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/9/2024 - Medium risk9/19/2024
IC 12- 17.2- 3.5-7(b)
Complaint on record. IC 12- 17.2- 3.5-7(b) Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.
Corrected 10/2/2024
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Safety & Compliance Analysis
This daycare has multiple recorded violations. Review the details to make an informed decision.
(Past 6 Months)
Parent Recommendations
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Estimated monthly cost
$889/month
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About this daycare
- Location: LAFAYETTE, TIPPECANOE County
- Type: Unlicensed Registered Ministry
- Years in operation: 2
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