Belmont · Licensed center
Holy Cross Preschool
- Medium center, licensed for 48 children.
- Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.
What these mean, and where they come from
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.
Source for who runs it
ccld.dss.ca.govWho cares for your child
Ratio not published
Miss Chris (Director) twenty years there. Six other staff are named on their site, with no start years given.
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.
What it costs
$1,988 a month for a preschooler
Lower than 28 of 36 Bay Area providers that publish a full-time preschool price.
Holy Cross PreschoolMost Bay Area prices (middle 80%)
Scale $1,000 to $4,000 a month. Bay Area prices as of September 29, 2026. Half-day $1,024 to $1,068 a month. Application fee $200. Sibling discount: 10% discount for the younger sibling or 2nd sibling attending the same program during the same enrollment year. Prices from their website, July 2026.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: teaching approach, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 0 of 3 cited something
Bay Area centers: the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine 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
- May 20, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since July 2022 — 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.
How the comparison is built
Routine visits: across Bay Area centers, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,260 visits).
A day here
- Hours
- 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, school year
- Schedule
- School Day (9am-12pm), School Day Plus (9am-1pm), Full Day (9am-4pm)
Details
- Website
- holycrossbelmont.com
- Address
- 900 Alameda De Las Pulgas
- License
- 414000251, active
- Ages they serve
- 2.5 years old through entry into first grade
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Who cares for your child
- Staff holycrossbelmont.com
What it costs
- Preschool, Second price, Sibling discount — Checked July 2026 holycrossbelmont.com
- Application fee — Checked July 2026 holycrossbelmont.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.
A day here
- Hours, Schedule — Checked July 2026 holycrossbelmont.com
- Calendar — Checked July 2026 holycrossbelmont.com
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website — Checked July 2026 holycrossbelmont.com
- Ages they serve — Checked July 2026 holycrossbelmont.com
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 ccld.dss.ca.gov