Foster City · Licensed center

Kindercare Learning Center

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.

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: 2 of 5 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.

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State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing

Last visit
May 27, 2026
On file
5 visits since August 2021 — 3 cited nothing
Most serious
Type A — 101170(e) Criminal Record Clearance All individuals subject to a criminal record review pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 1596.871 shall prior to working, residing or volunteering in a licensed facility: At 9am during inspection LPA observed 1 uncleared indivdual. This poses an immediate health & safety risk to children in care. · August 27, 2021

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.

May 2026 Licensing visit nothing cited
Feb 2026 Licensing visit nothing cited
Oct 2024 Licensing visit 1 finding

Licensing visit · October 1, 2024

HSC 1596.8662(b)(1) · Type B

(1) On or before March 30, 2018, a person who, on January 1, 2018, is a licensed child day care provider, administrator, or employee of a licensed child day care facility shall complete the mandated reporter training provided pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (a), and shall complete renewal mandated reporter training every two years following the date on which he or she completed the initial mandated reporter training. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interview and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 5 out of 5 staff have not completed mandated reporter training, which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

State report

Jul 2023 Licensing visit nothing cited
Aug 2021 Licensing visit 1 finding

Licensing visit · August 27, 2021

CCR 101170(e) · Type A · No longer displayed by the state

101170(e) Criminal Record Clearance All individuals subject to a criminal record review pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 1596.871 shall prior to working, residing or volunteering in a licensed facility: At 9am during inspection LPA observed 1 uncleared indivdual. This poses an immediate health & safety risk to children in care.

State report

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

(650) 573-6023

Address
1006 Metro Center Blvd
License
410517738, active
Ownership
For-profitSource: ccld.dss.ca.gov

The state licenses this address more than once, to the same licensee.

The infant-center license is published separately, with its own license and its own inspection record:

Kindercare Learning Center

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