Palo Alto · Licensed center

Whistle Stop, the

A center in Palo Alto, licensed for 48 children. Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.

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 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
July 17, 2025
On file
3 visits since December 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.

Jul 2025 Licensing visit nothing cited
Jun 2024 Licensing visit 1 finding

Licensing visit · June 14, 2024

HSC 1597.16(a)(1) · Type B

(1) A licensed child day care center, as defined in Section 1596.76, that is located in a building that was constructed before January 1, 2010, shall have its drinking water tested for lead contamination levels on or after January 1, 2020, but no later than January 1, 2023, and every five years after the date of the initial test. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interview, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above as the facility has not met the requirement to perform lead testing on all faucets used for drinking and food preparation which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

State report

Dec 2022 Licensing visit nothing cited

Details

Phone
(650) 852-3497
Address
3801 Miranda Avenue #t6b
License
434400203, active

The state licenses this address more than once, to the same licensee. The day-care-center license is published separately as Whistle Stop, the, with its own license and its own inspection record.

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