Menlo Park · Licensed center
Ihsd, Inc-Fair Oaks Head Start Center
- Large center, licensed for 86 children.
- Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What these mean, and where they come from
Large means the biggest quarter of Bay Area’s 439 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 76 to 312 children. Small is 8 to 30; medium is 31 to 75.
Source for who runs it
ccld.dss.ca.govShortlist 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
Routine visits: 0 of 4 cited something
Bay Area centers: the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits.
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
- December 19, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since May 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).
Details
- Address
- 3502 Middlefield Road
- License
- 414000717, active
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Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 ccld.dss.ca.gov