Toniko Manning Brown ensures quality childcare in Metairie

Sitting within Jefferson Parish and a major part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, the community of Metairie, Louisiana has a significantly large population -- one that would make it the state’s fourth biggest city if it were an incorporated community, but it is not. However, with a population over 138,000, many families seek childcare regularly for different reasons. And among those families, many desperately need affordable options, particularly with a median income in Metairie of $41,000.

But affordable daycare was not in abundance in the early 2000s, as entrepreneur Toniko Manning Brown noticed. She knew these families needed someone to fill the void, and so she did. By 2002, Little Beautiful Minds Primary Academy opened its doors as an educational facility offering reasonably priced weekly payments for childcare alongside learning. Kids now had a new place to gain knowledge and fun without their parents breaking the bank to make it occur.

Toniko Manning Brown ensured quality care at her facility in a harmonious, safe environment that fostered lifelong learners from an early age. With a small staff -- nearly ten in total -- Brown’s school grew out of its walls quickly and has since relocated twice. Little Beautiful Minds Primary Academy is now located at 5959 Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, at the former Celebration Station. This newest location allows for continued growth, but provides the same expected care and low-cost services that Brown and Little Beautiful Minds have become known for across the New Orleans region.

Toniko Manning Brown Grows Little Beautiful Minds

Ever since entrepreneur Toniko Manning Brown decided to found the school in 2002, to meet a very serious need in her community, she has turned her Little Beautiful Minds Primary Academy into one of the finest childcare facilities in the entire New Orleans area, including her home town of Metairie, Louisiana, who lacked good quality affordable childcare. Thinking like an entrepreneur, of course, she decided she had the knowledge and the ability and to make parents’ lives better.

Through her leadership and the excellent, caring staff she has recruited into the ranks over the last 15 years, Toniko Manning Brown has guided the school into having a strong reputation for providing kids with a variety of well-rounded, appropriate and intellectually stimulating activities. The children at Little Beautiful Minds receive an exceptional education at the same time they engage in many fun activities. Best of all, families can experience this without driving parents into the poorhouse.

Toniko Manning Brown took a different approach to building her business than many other childcare facilities. Instead of the massive marketing blitzes and huge discounts many other facilities offer to get people through the door, Toniko decided that it was better to just offer the best care and to encourage parents to tell others about them. By relying on quality childcare and allowing word-of-mouth to run the day, she has built a juggernaut. It turns out most parents of young children truly appreciate great care at a good price. They have outgrown two facilities and they now occupy a large building with plenty of room for growth.