Menlo Park · Licensed center
Msd Geokids (preschool)
At a glance
- Medium emergent curriculum center, licensed for 62 children.
- Tuition Preschool $3,335 a month, full time. See costs
From their website, read July 2026:
“Child-to-educator ratios start at 3-to-1 for infants, gradually increasing to a maximum of 10-to-1 in our preschool.”
Staff only: parent volunteers work alongside them.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 5 licensing inspections under this license since March 2022.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- May 7, 2025Nothing cited
Sep 20, 20241 citation
CCR 1010229(a)(1)Type A
“Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision (a) The licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the children's needs.(1) No child shall be left without the supervision of a teacher at any time, except as specified in Sections 101216.2(e)(1) and 101230(c)(1). Supervision shall include visual observation. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on documents recieved and interviews conducted C1 was left in a classroom without supervision. This posed an immediate health and safety risk.”
CCR 1010229(a)(1)
May 8, 20241 citation
101700(b)Type B
“(b) All licensed Child Care Centers operating in buildings constructed before January 1, 2010, shall test their water for lead pursuant to these written directives. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on record review facility had an ALE of 10.400 and 8.090. These results came from an outdoor hose bib. This poses a potential health and safety risk.”
101700(b)
- Mar 28, 2023Nothing cited
- Mar 30, 2022Nothing cited
The state cited rules at 2 of this center's 5 inspections under this license. Most Bay Area centers inspected 5 times had fewer: 64% of 457 had rules cited at 1 or none.
How all 457 Bay Area centers inspected 5 times compare
Of the 457 Bay Area centers the state inspected 5 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None29%
- 1 of 535%
- 2 of 523%This center
- 3 of 59%
- 4 of 54%
- All 5under 1%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing
- Last visit
- May 7, 2025
- On file
- 5 visits since March 2022 — 3 cited nothing
- Most serious
- Type A —
Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision (a) The licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the children's needs.(1) No child shall be left without the supervision of a teacher at any time, except as specified in Sections 101216.2(e)(1) and 101230(c)(1). Supervision shall include visual observation. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on documents recieved and interviews conducted C1 was left in a classroom without supervision. This posed an immediate health and safety risk.
· September 20, 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.
Sep 2024 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · September 20, 2024
CCR 1010229(a)(1) · Type A
Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision (a) The licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the children's needs.(1) No child shall be left without the supervision of a teacher at any time, except as specified in Sections 101216.2(e)(1) and 101230(c)(1). Supervision shall include visual observation. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on documents recieved and interviews conducted C1 was left in a classroom without supervision. This posed an immediate health and safety risk.
May 2024 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · May 8, 2024
101700(b) · Type B
(b) All licensed Child Care Centers operating in buildings constructed before January 1, 2010, shall test their water for lead pursuant to these written directives. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on record review facility had an ALE of 10.400 and 8.090. These results came from an outdoor hose bib. This poses a potential health and safety risk.
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What it costs
Msd Geokids (preschool)Most Bay Area prices (middle 80%)
Monthly, full time. The band is the middle 80% of Bay Area full-time prices for that age; 36 preschool programs publish one.
- Application fee
- $60
- Deposit
- $700, refundable
How they teach
Emergent curriculum and play-based
“Curriculum at GeoKids is emergent, which means it is based on the interests of the children.”
Details
- Phone
- (650) 329-4236
- Address
- 345 Middlefield Rd., M/s 204, Menlo Park, 94025
- License
- 414002689
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:
Msd Geokids (infant)We couldn’t find some information that may matter to your decision: openings, child care subsidies, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies, and who owns it. We can ask the program for you and copy you in.
Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
Children per adult
- Children per adult geokids.org
How they teach
- Approach geokids.org
What it costs
- Preschool, Application fee, Deposit geokids.org
State record
From California CDSS Community Care Licensing’s published reports, last checked November 5, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website geokids.org
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.