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La Petite Academy Inc.

3891 Lakeside Drive, Richmond, CA 94806 · Contra Costa County (510) 222-3070 License #70215131
15
inspections on file
8
recorded violations
4
health & safety class
Aug 18, 2026
last inspection

Inspection history

Source: California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division
Inspection history for La Petite Academy Inc.
DateKindOutcome as recordedViolationsOfficial record
Aug 18, 2026ComplaintUnsubstantiated0Official report · PDF
Feb 19, 2026InspectionNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Dec 17, 2025Case Management: DeficienciesNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Dec 17, 2025ComplaintSubstantiated: Staff forcefully pushed child down during nap · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Sep 16, 2025ComplaintSubstantiated: Child received multiple injuries · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
May 28, 2025ComplaintSubstantiated: Staff yells at children; Child hair is being pulled and being hit0Official report · PDF
Apr 15, 2025ComplaintSubstantiated: Facility is out of ratio · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Feb 4, 2025ComplaintSubstantiated: Classroom operating out of ratio · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Feb 4, 2025ComplaintSubstantiated: Staff spoke inapproriately to child · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Feb 4, 2025Case Management: Deficiencies1 Type A deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Nov 20, 2024ComplaintUnsubstantiated0Official report · PDF
Nov 14, 2024ComplaintSubstantiated: Staff are commingling children · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Dec 19, 2023ComplaintUnsubstantiated0Official report · PDF
Nov 1, 2023ComplaintSubstantiated: Personal Rights - Facility leaves child in a high chair for extended periods of time · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Jul 17, 2023InspectionNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF

Violations

Text reproduced verbatim · California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division
How to read violations

Nearly every licensed provider accumulates some. A missing signature and an unlocked medicine cabinet are both “violations”, and they are not the same thing. Look at the class, the pattern over time and how quickly it was corrected — not the count alone.

Paperwork — records, postings, forms Standard — supervision, ratio, training Health & safety — direct risk to a child

Class is our grouping of the state’s own weights, reviewed per state. The agency’s own label is always shown beside it.

Dec 17, 2025Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
StandardState weight: Type B
CCR 101223(a)(1) — (a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:

“Based on interviews and records reviewed it was determined that staff held down a child during naptime. This poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.”

Corrective action plan due Jan 16, 2026
Sep 16, 2025Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
StandardState weight: Type B
CCR 101223(a)(1) — Personal Rights: (a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:

“Based on records reviewed it was determined that there has been multiple instances of biting in the Early Preschool class. This poses a potential risk to the Health, Safety, and Personal Rights of chldren in care.”

Corrective action plan due Oct 10, 2025
Apr 15, 2025Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
Health & safetyState weight: Type A
CCR 101216.3 — Teacher-Child Ratio: (a) There shall be a ratio of one teacher visually observing and supervising no more than children in attendance...

“Based on interviews conducted, it was determined that the facility was out of ratio on multiple occasions, which is an immediate risk to the Health, Safety, and Personal Rights of children in care.”

Corrective action plan due Apr 16, 2025
Feb 4, 2025Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
Health & safetyState weight: Type A
CCR 101216.3(b) — (b) The licensee may use teacher aides in a teacher-child ratio of one teacher and one aide for every children in attendance.

“Based on observation and interviews conducted, it was determined that the classrooms had approximately children with one teacher and one aide. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of chldren in care.”

Corrective action plan due Feb 5, 2025
Feb 4, 2025Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
StandardState weight: Type B
CCR 101223(a)(2) — (a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:

“Based on interviews, it was determined that the staff deny will occasionally deny children milk which poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.”

Corrective action plan due Feb 21, 2025
Feb 4, 2025Case Management: Deficiencies · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
Health & safetyState weight: Type A
CCR 101223(a)(1) — Personal Rights: (a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:

“Based on interviews conducted it was determined that children had to wait to use the restroom resulting in the children having an accident on themselves. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of xhildren in care.”

Corrective action plan due Feb 5, 2025
Nov 14, 2024Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
StandardState weight: Type B
CCR 101161(a) — Limitations on Capacity.A licensee shall not operate a child care center beyond the conditions and limitations specified on the license,…

“Facility commingled children enrolled in the infant program with preschool children when needed for ratio which is a potential risk to the health and safety of children in care.”

Corrective action plan due Nov 28, 2024
Nov 1, 2023Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
Health & safetyState weight: Type A
CCR 101223(a)(1) — (a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:

“Based on interviews and record review it has been determined that a child was placed in a low feeding chair on one occasion to keep them contained in one area which is an immediate risk to the Health, Safety, and Personal Rights to children in care.”

Corrective action plan due Nov 2, 2023

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