Redwood City · Licensed center
Redwood Church Preschool
- Large center, licensed for 82 children.
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.
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 2 cited something
Bay Area centers: the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits. Two visits are too few to read as a pattern.
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
- September 18, 2025
- On file
- 2 visits since September 2024 — 1 cited nothing
- Most serious
- Type B —
(a) A licensee shall not operate a child care center beyond the conditions and limitations specified on the license, including the capacity limitation. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on observation and interviews, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in toddler age children were commingling with the preschool children. LPA observed toddler children have lunch with preschool children in a preschool classroom. [count] out of [total count] [(objects) (persons)] [identifiers] which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
· September 18, 2025
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 2025 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · September 18, 2025
CCR 101161(a) · Type B
(a) A licensee shall not operate a child care center beyond the conditions and limitations specified on the license, including the capacity limitation. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on observation and interviews, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in toddler age children were commingling with the preschool children. LPA observed toddler children have lunch with preschool children in a preschool classroom. [count] out of [total count] [(objects) (persons)] [identifiers] which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
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
- Website
- redwoodchurchpreschool.org
- Address
- 901 Madison Avenue
- License
- 414005146, active
The state licenses this address more than once, to the same licensee.
The day-care-center license is published separately, with its own license and its own inspection record:
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All checked July 2026.
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Details
- Phone, Address, License ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website redwoodchurchpreschool.org