San Mateo · Licensed center
Highlands Recreation Dist. (infant)
A center in San Mateo, licensed for 8 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
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.
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
The state lists 4 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
California CDSS Community Care Licensing records this provider’s license as “Closed, Single License Conversion”, closed January 20, 2026. That is the state’s own wording, quoted as published. The record below is one the state published, and the state still publishes it. Check with the provider or the state directly.
- Last visit
- March 25, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since December 2022
- 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.
Feb 2024 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · February 16, 2024
CCR 101239(q) · Type B
(q) All materials and surfaces accessible to children, including toys, shall be free of toxic substances. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: At 1:50PM., Based on observations, LPA confirmed chipped wall paint, accessible to children in care. This poses a potential health and safety risk to children in care.
Details
- Phone
- (650) 341-4251
- Address
- 1851 Lexington Avenue
- License
- 414002820, active
The state licenses this address more than once, to the same licensee. The day-care-center license is published separately as Highlands Recreation District, with its own license and its own inspection record.
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Sources and dates
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All checked July 2026.
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — ccld.dss.ca.gov