Gastonia · Licensed center
Day Dream Learning Center
At a glance
- Small center, licensed for 12 children.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 7 licensing inspections since December 2023.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Jun 22, 2026Nothing cited
- Dec 1, 2025Nothing cited
- May 19, 2025Nothing cited
- Dec 4, 2024Nothing cited
- Apr 4, 2024Nothing cited
- Feb 6, 2024Nothing cited
Dec 15, 20231 citation
Citation
“Potentially hazardous items including but not limited to power tools, nails, chemicals, propane stoves, lawn mowers, gasoline, or kerosene were not stored in locked areas, removed from the premises, or made inaccessible to children. On the playground, the storage shed was unlocked and accessible to children. Hazardous materials with written warnings, such as keep out of reach of children were located in an unlocked storage shed. The following hazardous materials included T. Water Seal Clear Multi-Surface Water Proofer and one propane tank of Blue Rhino.”
Violation corrected during visit
The state cited rules at 1 of this center's 7 inspections. Most Charlotte-area centers inspected 7 times had more: 87% of 86 had rules cited at 2 or more.
How all 86 Charlotte-area centers inspected 7 times compare
Of the 86 Charlotte-area centers the state inspected 7 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None5%
- 1 of 78%This center
- 2 of 73%
- 3 of 719%
- 4 of 721%
- 5 of 726%
- 6 of 716%
- All 72%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — North Carolina DCDEE
- Last visit
- June 22, 2026
- On file
- 7 visits since December 2023 — 6 cited nothing, 4 of those unannounced
- Fixed?
- All 1 record a correction, in the licensor’s own words.
- Most serious
- North Carolina DCDEE does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
North Carolina DCDEE describes every citation in the licensor’s own words and records the correction in that same text — the only one of the six states that publishes whether a violation was fixed. It attaches no rule number and no report document.
Dec 2023 Unannounced visit 1 finding
Unannounced visit · December 15, 2023
Potentially hazardous items including but not limited to power tools, nails, chemicals, propane stoves, lawn mowers, gasoline, or kerosene were not stored in locked areas, removed from the premises, or made inaccessible to children. On the playground, the storage shed was unlocked and accessible to children. Hazardous materials with written warnings, such as keep out of reach of children were located in an unlocked storage shed. The following hazardous materials included T. Water Seal Clear Multi-Surface Water Proofer and one propane tank of Blue Rhino.
Violation corrected during visit
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 36000621 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
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Details
- Phone
- (980) 320-8334
- Address
- 2609 Mcarver St, Gastonia, 28052
- License
- 36000621
- Quality program
- Five Star License
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All checked July 2026.
State record
From North Carolina DCDEE’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License, Quality program ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 36000621 under License Number, and open the result.
Small means the smallest quarter of Charlotte-area’s 605 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 11 to 50 children. Medium is 51 to 162; large is 163 to 528.