Palo Alto · Licensed center
Sojourner Truth Child Development Center
A developmental center in Palo Alto, licensed for 35 children. Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit. The state cited something at 0 of 4 routine visits (Bay Area centers: about 1 in 4).
Medium center. 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.
Who runs it: from ccld.dss.ca.gov.
How they teach
Developmental and play-based
“PACCC's Whole-Child Approach At PACCC, we believe in a whole-child approach to early education and care”In their words. paccc.org, July 2026
“committed to providing comprehensive, enriching, play-based programming that stimulates curiosity, creativity, and exploration”In their words. paccc.org, July 2026
One of 30 Bay Area providers that describe a developmental approach, out of 164 that describe any approach at all.
Who cares for your child
One adult for every four infants
Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet.
One adult for every eight preschoolers. Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet.
One staff is named on their site, with no start year given.
What it costs
From $1,690 a month
Bay Area comparison hidden until they say which age this price is for.
Half-day $1,490 a month. Application fee $25.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 0 of 4 cited something
Across Bay Area centers, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,260 visits).
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
- April 17, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since March 2022 — all of them cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Nothing was cited under this license, so there is nothing to correct. The other license at this address keeps its own record.
- Most serious
- Nothing was cited at any visit on file under this license. The other license at this address keeps its own record.
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.
A day here
- Hours
- 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM, 5 days a week, year round
- Schedule
- Full Day; Part Day Long
Details
- Phone
- (650) 493-5990
- Website
- paccc.org
- Address
- 3990 Ventura Court
- License
- 430702825, active
- Ages
- 2 months to 2 years old
The state licenses this address more than once, to the same licensee. The infant-center license is published separately as Sojourner Truth Child Development Center, with its own license and its own inspection record.
Do you run Sojourner Truth Child Development Center? Shortlist has no policies or daily routine for it, because the state does not publish that. Add what is missing. It is free and takes about ten minutes.
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.
How they teach
- Approach — Checked July 2026 · paccc.org
How they teach
- Approach — Checked July 2026 · paccc.org
Who cares for your child
- Children per adult — Checked July 2026 · paccc.org
Who cares for your child
- Staff — paccc.org
What it costs
- Monthly tuition, Second price, Application fee — Checked July 2026 · paccc.org
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
A day here
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website — Checked July 2026 · paccc.org
- Ages — Checked July 2026 · paccc.org
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov