Burlingame · Licensed center
St. Paul's Nursery School
A play-based center in Burlingame, licensed for 50 children.
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.
How they teach
Play-based
“Our play based curriculum supports the development of the whole child — socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually.”In their words. spnsburlingame.org, July 2026
One of 82 Bay Area providers that describe a play-based approach, out of 164 that describe any approach at all.
Who cares for your child
Ratio not published
Lisa Williamson (Director and Senior Class Lead Teacher) twenty years there, Annie Moore (Senior Class Teacher) fifteen years there, Tanya Drake (Junior Class Lead Teacher) since 2016, Natasha Herro (Junior Class Teacher) nine years there and Camille Edison (Junior Class Co-Lead Teacher), 9 years in early childhood.
Of 905 Bay Area providers, 29 publish how long a named staff member has been there; the longest tenure at each of those has a median of sixteen years.
What it costs
$1,300 to $1,390 a month
Bay Area comparison hidden until they say which age this price is for.
Part-time $710 a month. Application fee $100.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 0 of 3 cited something
Across Bay Area centers, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,260 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.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing
- Last visit
- January 13, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since March 2022 — 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.
A day here
- Schedule
- half-day
Details
- Phone
- (650) 344-5409
- Website
- spnsburlingame.org
- Address
- 405 El Camino Real
- License
- 410500602, active
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Sources and dates
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How they teach
- Approach — Checked July 2026 · spnsburlingame.org
Who cares for your child
- Staff — spnsburlingame.org
What it costs
- Monthly tuition, Second price, Application fee — Checked July 2026 · spnsburlingame.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
- Schedule — Checked July 2026 · spnsburlingame.org
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Website — Checked July 2026 · spnsburlingame.org