Menlo Park · Licensed center
All Five
A emergent curriculum center in Menlo Park, licensed for 32 children. Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit. The state cited something at 1 of 4 routine visits (Bay Area centers: about 1 in 4).
Medium center. Medium means the middle half of Bay Area’s 439 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 31 to 75 children. Small is 8 to 30; large is 76 to 312.
Who runs it: from ccld.dss.ca.gov.
How they teach
Emergent curriculum and play-based
“This is a dynamic process called “Emergent Curriculum.””In their words. allfive.org, July 2026
“We work with an emergent play-based curriculum as we know that young children learn through play and in relationships with others.”In their words. allfive.org, July 2026
One of 13 Bay Area providers that describe an emergent curriculum approach, out of 164 that describe any approach at all.
Who cares for your child
One adult for every three infants
Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet.
One adult for every six preschoolers. Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet.
30 staff are named on their site, with no start years given.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 1 of 4 cited something
Across Bay Area centers, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,260 visits).
From California CDSS Community Care Licensing’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing
- Last visit
- December 8, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since August 2022 — 3 cited nothing · 1 complaint investigation
- Most serious
- No finding carrying a severity level in the last 24 months.
California CDSS publishes the full investigation narrative for a complaint, including its disposition, and classifies a citation Type A — an immediate risk to a child — or Type B.
Dec 2025 Complaint Unsubstantiated
Complaint · December 2, 2025
Unsubstantiated
ALLEGATION(S): Staff speaks inappropriately to infants in care. INVESTIGATION FINDINGS: On December 8, 2025 at approximately 8:00AM, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA), Katie Krenn arrived at the child care center unannounced to open a complaint investigation into the above allegation. LPA met with the Site Supervisor while the Director, O.L. (D1) was in a meeting. Present during the visit were the director and ten teachers supervising seven infants (12 months and under) and 20 toddlers (12 to 36 months). Later during the visit, LPA met with D1. During the course of the investigation, LPA conducted interviews, made observations, and reviewed pertinent documentation provided by parties involved. Although the above allegation may have happened or is valid, there is not a preponderance of evidence to prove the alleged violation did or did not occur, therefore the allegation is UNSUBSTANTIATED. An exit interview was conducted with the Director, O.L. A printed copy of the report and notice of site visit were provided at the conclusion of the inspection. Notice of site visit was posted and must remain posted for 30 days for public review. Unsubstantiated Estimated Days of Completion:
Individual employees are shown by initials. The state’s report, linked above, names them in full.
Sep 2024 Licensing visit 4 findings
Licensing visit · September 18, 2024
HSC 1596.7995(a)(1) · Type B
(1) Commencing September 1, 2016, a person shall not be employed or volunteer at a day care center if he or she has not been immunized against influenza, pertussis, and measles. Each employee and volunteer shall receive an influenza vaccination between August 1 and December 1 of each year. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interview and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 2 out of 9 staff were missing required immunizations which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
CCR 101430(a)(3)(A)(4) · Type B
(A) Staff shall place infants up to 12-months of age on their backs for sleeping. (4) Infants with an Individual Infant Sleeping Plan [LIC 9227 (3/20)] that have Section C of the form completed and signed by an authorized representative shall be placed on their back when first laid down to sleep. In the event the infant changes position, the infant may remain in the alternative position. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interview and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in all 5 infants under the age of 12 months documents were incomplete which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
CCR 101416.2(c)(1) · Type B
(c) To be a fully qualified infant care teacher, a teacher shall have the following: (1) Completion, with passing grades, of 12 postsecondary semester or equivalent quarter units in early childhood or child development education at an accredited or approved college or university. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 2 teachers were missing required courses which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
CCR 101216.2(d)(1) · Type B
This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on record review), the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 3 aides were missing units which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
A day here
- Meals
- Provides breakfast, morning snack, lunch, and afternoon snack for all children via a food contractor; infants also get formula/beginning foods
- Outdoors
- Three hours of outdoor time recommended daily for full-day programs
- Sleep
- Scheduled nap/rest and quiet time, handled based on individual needs; for infants/toddlers nap starts around 12:30-1pm until 2:30-3pm or later, handled individually
- Diapers
- Provided by All Five (diapers, wipes, and creams), though families may bring their own preferred brands
- Updates for parents
- Verbal communication, the Learning Genie app, email, and text messages primarily via WhatsApp
- Hours
- 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM, 5 days a week, year round
- Schedule
- full-day
- Closed
- Federal holidays, the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, one week at the end of the school year in August, and 7 staff-only Fridays during the year
Policies
- When a child is sick
- Children with a fever must stay home until 24 hours fever-free without medication
- Biting
- Structured response procedure (comfort, wash, antiseptic/ice, injury report, phone notification if skin broken); biter's family informed of incidents and prevention steps, biter's name not disclosed
Details
- Phone
- (650) 394-7328
- Website
- allfive.org
- Address
- 415 Ivy Drive
- License
- 414004790, active
- Ages
- 6 Weeks – 5 Years
The state licenses this address more than once, to the same licensee. The day-care-center license is published separately as All Five @ Belle Haven, with its own license and its own inspection record.
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
How they teach
- Approach — Checked July 2026 · allfive.org
How they teach
- Approach — Checked July 2026 · allfive.org
Who cares for your child
- Children per adult — Checked July 2026 · allfive.org
Who cares for your child
- Staff — allfive.org
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
A day here
- Meals, Outdoors, Sleep, Diapers, Updates for parents, Hours, Calendar, Closed — Checked July 2026 · allfive.org
- Schedule — Checked July 2026 · allfive.org
Policies
- When a child is sick, Biting — Checked July 2026 · allfive.org
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website — Checked July 2026 · allfive.org
- Ages — Checked July 2026 · allfive.org
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov