Santa Clara · Licensed center
Happy Days Child Development Center
A center in Santa Clara, licensed for 24 children. Run by the person who holds the license.
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.
Who runs it: from ccld.dss.ca.gov.
Who cares for your child
One adult for every four infants
Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, teaching approach, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 1 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
- September 5, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since July 2023 — 2 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.
Jul 2023 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · July 20, 2023
101700.3(b)(1) · Type B
Lead Testing Written Directives 101700.3 (b)(1), a result with values 5.5 ppb or greater shall be deemed an Action Level Exceedance. This requirement was met as evidenced by: Lead testing conducted on 8/19/2022 showed ALE H Drinking Fountain in RM 3 in the facility. This posed a potential risk to children in care.
A day here
- Meals
- Two menu versions offered (meat-based and strictly vegetarian); two snacks served daily; custom tailored menus for infants under 24 months
- Sleep
- Infants nap in their own crib or cot in a designated sleeping area
- Updates for parents
- Daily updates and written records provided to parents
- Hours
- 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, 5 days a week
Details
- Phone
- (408) 296-5770
- Website
- happydayscdc.com
- Address
- 220 Blake Avenue
- License
- 430709952, active
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Sources and dates
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Who cares for your child
- Children per adult — Checked July 2026 · happydayscdc.com
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
The state’s licensing transparency data reports 1 complaint-related visit(s) to this facility, while 0 complaint investigation report(s) are published on the transparency portal. State complaint counts: substantiated=0, inconclusive=0, unsubstantiated=1, unfounded=CONFIDENTIAL, Type A citations=0, Type B citations=0. The state publishes no further detail for the difference.
A day here
- Meals — Checked July 2026 · happydayscdc.com
- Sleep, Updates for parents — Checked July 2026 · happydayscdc.com
- Hours — Checked July 2026 · happydayscdc.com
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website — Checked July 2026 · happydayscdc.com
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov