San Mateo · Licensed center
San Mateo-Foster City Schl Dist-Laurel
- Medium center, licensed for 44 children.
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.
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What the state has found
Routine visits: 0 of 3 cited something
Bay Area centers: the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits. Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.
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
- October 30, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since September 2024 — all of them cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Nothing was cited, so there is nothing to correct.
- Most serious
- Nothing was cited at any visit on file.
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.
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
- laurel.smfcsd.net
- Address
- 316 36th Avenue
- License
- 414005130, active
- Ages they serve
- TK (age 4) through Kindergarten (age 5)
- Ownership
- Government-runSource: ccld.dss.ca.gov
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Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website — Checked July 2026 laurel.smfcsd.net
- Ages they serve — Checked July 2026 laurel.smfcsd.net
- Ownership — Checked September 2026 ccld.dss.ca.gov