Santa Clara · Licensed center
Kidz Academy, INC.
A center in Santa Clara, licensed for 43 children. Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit. The state cited something at 1 of 9 routine visits (Bay Area centers: about 1 in 4). Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
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.
Who runs it: from ccld.dss.ca.gov.
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
Routine visits: 1 of 9 cited something
Across Bay Area centers, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,260 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
- July 2, 2026
- On file
- 9 visits since September 2022 — 8 cited nothing · 3 complaint investigations
- Most serious
- Type A —
Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision: The licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the children's needs.(1)No child(ren) shall be left without the supervision of a teacher at any time... Supervision shall include visual observation. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews,record reviews and evidence gathered, two of the children were found outside of the facility alone without any supervision on 07/25/2024 about 12:30PM. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety and personal rights of children in care.
· July 30, 2024
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.
Oct 2024 Complaint
Complaint · October 2, 2024
CCR 101223(a)(3) · Type B
Personal Rights: (a)The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threat, mental abuse or other actions of a punitive nature including but not limited to: interference with functions of daily living including eating, sleeping or toileting; or withholding of shelter, clothing, medication or aids to physical functioning. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews, Director has heard frustration in staff (S2) voice on multiple occassions and has brought this to Staff (S2) attention, which poses a potential Health, Safety, or Personal Rights risk to persons in care.
Jul 2024 Complaint
Complaint · July 25, 2024
CCR 101229(a)(1) · Type A
Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision: The licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the children's needs.(1)No child(ren) shall be left without the supervision of a teacher at any time... Supervision shall include visual observation. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews,record reviews and evidence gathered, two of the children were found outside of the facility alone without any supervision on 07/25/2024 about 12:30PM. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety and personal rights of children in care.
Oct 2023 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · October 2, 2023
101700.3(b)(1) · Type B
Lead Testing Written Directives (b)(1) a result with values of 5.5 ppb or greater shall be deemed an Action Level Exceedance. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Two fixtures reported an ALE of 5.5 parts per billion or greater in Fountains 27 (B) and 12 (D). This poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.
Details
- Phone
- (408) 261-9523
- Address
- 1224 North Winchester Blvd
- License
- 434406690, active
The state licenses this address more than once, to the same licensee. The infant-center license is published separately as Kidz Academy, INC., with its own license and its own inspection record.
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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 3 complaint-related visit(s) to this facility, while 2 complaint investigation report(s) are published on the transparency portal. State complaint counts: substantiated=2, inconclusive=0, unsubstantiated=3, unfounded=CONFIDENTIAL, Type A citations=1, Type B citations=1. The state publishes no further detail for the difference.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov