Redwood City · Licensed center

Catalyst Kids - Henry Ford (preschool)

A center in Redwood City, licensed for 36 children. Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.

Who runs it: from ccld.dss.ca.gov.

Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.

What the state has found

Routine visits: 0 of 3 cited something

Across Bay Area centers, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,260 visits). Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.

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
October 14, 2025
On file
3 visits since July 2023 — all of them cited nothing
Fixed?
Nothing was cited, so there is nothing to correct.
Most serious
Nothing was cited at any visit on file.

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.

Oct 2025 Licensing visit nothing cited
Nov 2024 Licensing visit nothing cited
Jul 2023 Licensing visit nothing cited

Details

Phone
(650) 368-1138
Address
2498 Massachusetts Avenue
License
414002468, active

Do you run Catalyst Kids - Henry Ford (preschool)? Shortlist has no tuition, hours or ratios for it, because the state does not publish that. Add what is missing. It is free and takes about ten minutes.

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State record

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