Redwood City · Licensed center
Redwood Church Preschool
At a glance
- Large center, licensed for 82 children.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 2 licensing inspections under this license since September 2024.
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Licensing inspections
Sep 18, 20251 citation
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.”
CCR 101161(a)
- Sep 6, 2024Nothing cited
The state cited rules at 1 of this center's 2 inspections under this license. Most Bay Area centers inspected twice had fewer: 64% of 362 had none cited.
How all 362 Bay Area centers inspected twice compare
Of the 362 Bay Area centers the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None64%
- 1 of 232%This center
- Both4%
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.
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Details
- Phone
- (650) 562-7611
- Address
- 901 Madison Avenue, Redwood City, 94061
- License
- 414005146
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:
Redwood Church PreschoolWe couldn’t find some information that may matter to your decision: openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, 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.
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 redwoodchurchpreschool.org
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.