Kannapolis · Licensed center
Royal Oaks Kids:plus
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 100 children.
- Run by a school district, which holds the license.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 6 licensing inspections since March 2024.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Oct 8, 2026Nothing cited
- May 28, 2026Nothing cited
Dec 1, 20253 citations
Citation
“All staff did not successfully complete certification in First Aid appropriate to the age of children in care. Verification of staff completion of First Aid training from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. A staff member hired on 10/4/23 did not have a certification in First Aid on file and available for review.”
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 12/8/2025
Citation
“All staff did not successfully complete certification in CPR training appropriate to the age of the children in care. Verification of staff completion of the CPR course from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. A staff member hired on 10/4/23 did not have a certification in CPR training on file and available for review.”
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 12/8/2025
Citation
“Staff did not complete the health and safety training within one year of employment. A staff member hired on 10/4/23 did not have the health and safety trainings on file and available for review.”
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 12/8/2025
- May 14, 2025Nothing cited
- Jan 24, 2025Nothing cited
- Mar 14, 2024Nothing cited
The state cited rules at 1 of this center's 6 inspections. Most Charlotte-area centers inspected 6 times had more: 85% of 79 had rules cited at 2 or more.
How all 79 Charlotte-area centers inspected 6 times compare
Of the 79 Charlotte-area centers the state inspected 6 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None10%
- 1 of 65%This center
- 2 of 620%
- 3 of 619%
- 4 of 620%
- 5 of 615%
- All 610%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — North Carolina DCDEE
- Last visit
- October 8, 2026
- On file
- 6 visits since March 2024 — 5 cited nothing, 5 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.
Dec 2025 Unannounced visit 3 findings
Unannounced visit · December 1, 2025
All staff did not successfully complete certification in First Aid appropriate to the age of children in care. Verification of staff completion of First Aid training from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. A staff member hired on 10/4/23 did not have a certification in First Aid on file and available for review.
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 12/8/2025
All staff did not successfully complete certification in CPR training appropriate to the age of the children in care. Verification of staff completion of the CPR course from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. A staff member hired on 10/4/23 did not have a certification in CPR training on file and available for review.
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 12/8/2025
Staff did not complete the health and safety training within one year of employment. A staff member hired on 10/4/23 did not have the health and safety trainings on file and available for review.
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 12/8/2025
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 13000542 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
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Details
- Phone
- (704) 260-5820
- Address
- 608 Dakota Street, Kannapolis, 28083
- License
- 13000542
- Quality program
- Five Star License
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State record
From North Carolina DCDEE’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License, Quality program — Checked July 2026 ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 13000542 under License Number, and open the result.
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 13000542 under License Number, open the result and expand Owner Information: the licensee is listed as Primary Owner.
Medium means the middle half of Charlotte-area’s 605 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 51 to 162 children. Small is 11 to 50; large is 163 to 528.