Precious Playmates Child Development Center

Center · Charlotte · 532 Ingle Street

What kind of place is this?

Size 66 children licensed In the middle half for Charlotte centers, where the middle half licenses 50–162. Measured across 598 Charlotte centers, 2026-08-17.

How this compares

North Carolina DCDEE cited something at 3 of the 6 visits below. Across Charlotte centers it cites something at about 57% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Charlotte with Charlotte and never with another state.

Will it fit our family?

Accepts subsidy Yes

What will it cost us?

This provider does not publish pricing.

What Shortlist has verified

State quality rating Four Star License
License status Active

State record — North Carolina DCDEE

Last visit
May 22, 2026
On file
6 visits since January 2024 — 3 cited nothing, 3 of those unannounced
Fixed?
All 3 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.

May 2026 Unannounced visit 1 finding

Unannounced visit · May 22, 2026

A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. A staff member's valid qualification letter was not on file.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 6/4/2026

DCDEE facility lookup

Nov 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
May 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Jan 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Jul 2024 Unannounced visit 1 finding

Unannounced visit · July 2, 2024

All staff records, except financial records, were not made available for review. A staff members medical and TB was unavailable for review. It was monitored at the previous visit.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/14/2024

DCDEE facility lookup

Jan 2024 Unannounced visit 1 finding

Unannounced visit · January 11, 2024

Operator has not scheduled and obtained a fire inspection within 12 months of the previous inspection. Operator did not submit the original approved report to DCDEE within one week of the inspection visit on a form provided by the Division. The operator did not submit the fire inspection report in the required timeframe.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 1/22/2024

DCDEE facility lookup

Before you tour

Precious Playmates Child Development Center hasn’t published

Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.

Ask which of these findings were serious.North Carolina DCDEE records the correction in its own words, but never says how serious it was.

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.

All checked July 2026.

What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

Will it fit our family

Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.

Licensing and contact

State record

Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.

Do you run Precious Playmates Child Development Center? Shortlist has no tuition, hours or ratios for it, because the state does not publish that. Add what is missing. It is free and takes about ten minutes.