Santa Rosa · Licensed center
Little Wildflowers Preschool, Inc.
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 55 children.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since March 2022.
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Licensing inspections
- Aug 20, 2025Nothing cited
Aug 24, 20221 citation
CCR 101238(a)Type B
“Buildings and Grounds 101238(a) The child care center shall be clean, safe, sanitary and in good repair at all times to ensure the safety and well-being of children, employees and visitors. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on record review, the facility had 1 drinking fountain faucet that exceeded the allowable levels of lead in the water. This is a potential health and safety risk to children in care.”
CCR 101238(a)
Mar 7, 20221 citation
CCR 101238.2(e)Type B
“(e) As a condition of licensure, the areas around and under high climbing equipment, swings, slides and other similar equipment shall be cushioned with material that absorbs falls. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in areas around and under high climbing equipment or other similar equipment that was observed without cushioned material that absorbs falls, which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.”
CCR 101238.2(e)
The state cited rules at 2 of this center's 3 inspections. Most Bay Area centers inspected 3 times had fewer: 85% of 568 had rules cited at 1 or none.
How all 568 Bay Area centers inspected 3 times compare
Of the 568 Bay Area centers the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None51%
- 1 of 334%
- 2 of 312%This center
- All 33%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing
- Last visit
- August 20, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since March 2022 — 1 cited nothing · 1 complaint investigation
- 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.
Aug 2023 Complaint Substantiated
Complaint · August 3, 2023
CCR 101223(a)(3) · Type B
101223 Personal Rights (a)The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: (3) To be free from...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... This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews conducted, on more than one occasion staff threaten to discipline or did discipline children with “thinking time” or a call to parents if children were not quiet for the 2-hour nap period and in some cases called parents to pick up their children for not sleeping or staying quiet for the 2-hour nap period. This poses a potential health, safety, or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Aug 2022 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · August 24, 2022
CCR 101238(a) · Type B
Buildings and Grounds 101238(a) The child care center shall be clean, safe, sanitary and in good repair at all times to ensure the safety and well-being of children, employees and visitors. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on record review, the facility had 1 drinking fountain faucet that exceeded the allowable levels of lead in the water. This is a potential health and safety risk to children in care.
Mar 2022 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · March 7, 2022
CCR 101238.2(e) · Type B
(e) As a condition of licensure, the areas around and under high climbing equipment, swings, slides and other similar equipment shall be cushioned with material that absorbs falls. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in areas around and under high climbing equipment or other similar equipment that was observed without cushioned material that absorbs falls, which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
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Details
- Phone
- (707) 308-4282
- Address
- 1275 & 1281 Edwards Avenue, Santa Rosa, 95401
- License
- 493009876
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Sources and dates
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All checked November 2026.
State record
From California CDSS Community Care Licensing’s published reports, last checked November 5, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License ccld.dss.ca.gov
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.