San Mateo · Licensed family home
Teresa Castro Family Child Care
A family home in San Mateo, licensed for up to 14 children. Run by the person who holds the license. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Full-size home. Full-size means licensed for 14 children, the most any Bay Area family home holds; 442 of Bay Area’s 466 licensed family homes are. Small is 10 to 13.
Who runs it: from ccld.dss.ca.gov.
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 3 cited something
Across Bay Area family homes, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,008 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
- February 26, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since November 2022 — 2 cited nothing
- Most serious
- No finding carrying a severity level in the last 24 months.
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.
Mar 2024 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · March 19, 2024
CCR 102425(j)(2)(D)(c) · Type B
Documentation shall be maintained in the infant’s file and be available to the Department for review. Documentation shall include the following: Time of each 15-minute check This requirement is not met as evidenced by: At 12:10PM., Based on record review and interview, LPA confirmed licensee is not documenting infant napping conditions during each 15-minute review. This poses a potential health and safety risk to children in care.
Details
- Phone
- (650) 430-8435
- Area
- San Mateo, 94401
- License
- 414004296, active
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State record
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Details
- Phone, License — Checked July 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov