Sunnyvale · Licensed center
Cupertino Co-Op Nursery School
A play-based center in Sunnyvale, licensed for 24 children. Care for a toddler is $345 a month.
Small center. Small means the smallest quarter of Bay Area’s 439 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 30 children. Medium is 31 to 75; large is 76 to 312.
How they teach
Play-based
“We believe that play is the most effective and meaningful way for young children to learn about the world, themselves, and each other.”In their words. cupertinocoop.org, July 2026
One of 82 Bay Area providers that describe a play-based approach, out of 164 that describe any approach at all.
Who cares for your child
One adult for every 24 toddlers
Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet. Staff only: parent volunteers work alongside them.
Six staff are named on their site, with no start years given.
What it costs
$345 a month for a toddler
Bay Area comparison hidden: this is a half-day price, and only full-time prices are compared.
Application fee $75. Deposit $400. Prices from their website, July 2026.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 0 of 1 cited something
Across Bay Area centers, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,260 visits). One visit is 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
- April 11, 2024
- On file
- 1 visit, April 2024 — it 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.
A day here
- Meals
- Snack time provided in small groups
- Outdoors
- Indoor and outdoor play available almost every day
- Hours
- 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, 2 days a week
- Schedule
- Half-day, 2 days per week (Tuesday & Thursday)
Details
- Phone
- (408) 739-8963
- Website
- cupertinocoop.org
- Address
- 1025 The Dalles Avenue
- License
- 434416574, active
- Established
- 1953
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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 · cupertinocoop.org
Who cares for your child
- Children per adult — Checked July 2026 · cupertinocoop.org
Who cares for your child
- Staff — cupertinocoop.org
What it costs
- Toddler, Deposit — Checked July 2026 · cupertinocoop.org
- Application fee — Checked July 2026 · cupertinocoop.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, Hours, Schedule — Checked July 2026 · cupertinocoop.org
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website — Checked July 2026 · cupertinocoop.org
- Established — Checked July 2026 · cupertinocoop.org