Burlingame · Licensed center
Genius Learning
A bilingual center in Burlingame, licensed for 49 children.
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.
How they teach
Bilingual
“As a Mandarin immersion program, children are naturally exposed to Mandarin throughout the day through songs, conversations, stories, and daily routines.”In their words. geniuslearning.org, July 2026
One of 33 Bay Area providers that describe a bilingual approach, out of 164 that describe any approach at all.
Who cares for your child
Ratio not published
Dennis Tong (Director, Burlingame) five years there and Linda Tong (Director, San Mateo), 20 years in early childhood.
Of 905 Bay Area providers, 29 publish how long a named staff member has been there; the longest tenure at each of those has a median of sixteen years.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
The state lists 3 visits below. Shortlist has not read the reports behind them, so there is no share of visits that cited something to set beside other providers yet.
State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing
- Last visit
- February 3, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since July 2022
- Fixed?
- Shortlist has not read California CDSS Community Care Licensing’s reports for this provider, so what they cited is not known.
- Most serious
- Shortlist has not read the reports California CDSS Community Care Licensing published for these visits, so nothing here says what they found.
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
- Asian-style lunch served with milk and fresh fruit, plus morning and afternoon snacks daily
Details
- Phone
- (650) 666-7726
- Website
- geniuslearning.org
- Address
- 700 Peninsula Avenue
- License
- 414004002, active
Do you run Genius Learning? 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.
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 · geniuslearning.org
Who cares for your child
- Staff — geniuslearning.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 — Checked July 2026 · geniuslearning.org
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website — Checked July 2026 · geniuslearning.org