DHSS MO
MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

OFFICE OF CHILDHOOD

LICENSE EXEMPT PROGRAM INSPECTION REPORT
Facility Information

MANCHESTER UNITED CIRCLE OF FRIENDS PRESCHOOL

000271898

(636) 394-6867

129 WOODS MILL RD
MANCHESTER
MO  63011-4339

MANCHESTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH



 

KNIPPING, MELANIE ROSE

Melanie.knipping@preschoolstl.org

Incorporated

THERESA BROZ

12 MONTHS - 6 YEARS

115

LICENSE EXEMPT PROGRAM

8 CHILDREN IN THE INFANT/TODDLER UNIT
 
Inspection Information

10/14/2025

9:25 AM

10:19 AM

ANNOUNCED

ANNUAL

2501792957


DocumentDocument-Date
NOTICE OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY 06/25/2025
FIRE/SAFETY INSPECTION 08/27/2025
SANITATION INSPECTION 08/22/2025




Inspection determined facility to be in compliance with rules.
Compliance Licensing Rules
Open Violations: NA
Attendance at Time of Inspection
Total Staff 14
Total Children 48
StaffChildClass AgeNote
2 4 INFANTS AND TODDLERS Valerie Love, teacher, and Jill Mason, teacher, were present with four children ages 16-months-old to 24-months-old
3 0 NO CHILDREN IN ATTENDANCE Melanie Knipping , Director, Kelly Hall, Music Teacher, and Susan Christensen, Music Teacher, were present with zero children
2 16 PRESCHOOL Jill Worland, teacher, and Jennifer Pegg, teacher, were present with sixteen children ages 4-years-old to 5-years-old
2 9 PRESCHOOL Denise Saunders, teacher, and Kristin Metter, teacher, were present with nine children age 3-years-old
2 8 PRESCHOOL Christine Gopi, teacher, and Rebecca Bassett, teacher, were present with eight children ages 4-years-old to 5-years-old
3 11 TWO YEAR OLDS Linda Anthony, teacher, Ellen Ewing, teacher, and Amanda Pulliam, teacher, were present with eleven children age 2-years-old

Compliance List
5 CSR 25-300.020 Application for Annual Fire Safety and Health and Sanitation Inspections and Inspection Procedures
Compliance
5 CSR 25-300.040 Staffing Requirements
Compliance
5 CSR 25-300.050 Health Requirements
Compliance
5 CSR 25-300.060 Responsibilities of Caregivers
Compliance
5 CSR 25-300.070 Fire Safety Requirements
Compliance
5 CSR 25-300.080 Sanitation Requirements
Compliance
5 CSR 25-300.090 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment
Compliance
5 CSR 25-300.110 Admission Procedures and Required Reports and Records
Compliance
5 CSR 25-600.020 General Requirements
Compliance
5 CSR 25-600.040 Background Screening Findings
Compliance
RSMo 210.003 Immunizations of children required, when, exceptions--duties of administrator, report--notification of parents, when.
Compliance
RSMo 210.115 Reports of abuse, neglect, and under age eighteen deaths--persons required to report--supervisors and administrators not to impede reporting--deaths required to be reported to the division or child fatality review panel, when.
Compliance
RSMo 210.201. Definitions. — As used in sections 210.201 to 210.257, the following terms mean:
Compliance
RSMo 210.254 Religious organization operating facilities exempt under licensing laws required to file parental notice of responsibility and fire, safety inspections annually.
Compliance
RSMo 210.255 Religious organizations operating facility in violation, procedure - noncompliance after notice, prosecutor may act or attorney general.
Compliance
RSMo 252. Fire, safety, health and sanitation inspections, procedures - variances to rules granted when - rules authorized.
Compliance