Charlotte · Licensed center
Tiny Treasures Child Development Center
At a glance
- Medium Creative Curriculum center, licensed for 100 children.
- Ages They list: Infants beginning at six weeks of age through the Three's and Four's classroom.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 3 of its 9 licensing inspections since February 2024.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Jun 25, 20261 citation
Citation
“A safe indoor and outdoor environment was not provided for the children. Children aged two years old were served whole meatballs in Space 6.”
Violation corrected during visit
- Feb 27, 2026Nothing cited
Jul 10, 20252 citations
Citation
“Equipment and furnishings were not sturdy, stable and free of hazards. Metal pegs were observed sticking out above the wood barriers on the infant playground that posed a hazard.”
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/15/2025
Citation
“A safe indoor and outdoor environment was not provided for the children. Emergency medications were not stored in the classroom with children. Emergency medications were stored in the office.”
Violation corrected during visit
- May 14, 2025Nothing cited
- Mar 25, 2025Nothing cited
- Nov 21, 2024Nothing cited
Jul 18, 20241 citation
Citation
“Health and safety training topics were not included as part of on-going training within five years of completing the previous health and safety training topics. Health and safety training topic recognizing and responding to child abuse was not included as part of on-going training within five years of completing the previous health and safety training topics for one(1) employee.”
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/25/2024
- Feb 20, 2024Nothing cited
- Feb 1, 2024Nothing cited
The state cited rules at 3 of this center's 9 inspections. Most Charlotte-area centers inspected 9 times had more: 86% of 49 had rules cited at 4 or more.
How all 49 Charlotte-area centers inspected 9 times compare
Of the 49 Charlotte-area centers the state inspected 9 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- 1 of 94%
- 2 of 94%
- 3 of 96%This center
- 4 of 914%
- 5 of 922%
- 6 of 922%
- 7 of 912%
- 8 of 912%
- All 92%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — North Carolina DCDEE
- Last visit
- June 25, 2026
- On file
- 9 visits since February 2024 — 6 cited nothing, 5 of those unannounced
- Fixed?
- All 4 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.
Jun 2026 Unannounced visit 1 finding
Unannounced visit · June 25, 2026
A safe indoor and outdoor environment was not provided for the children. Children aged two years old were served whole meatballs in Space 6.
Violation corrected during visit
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60001730 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
Jul 2025 Unannounced visit 2 findings
Unannounced visit · July 10, 2025
Equipment and furnishings were not sturdy, stable and free of hazards. Metal pegs were observed sticking out above the wood barriers on the infant playground that posed a hazard.
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/15/2025
A safe indoor and outdoor environment was not provided for the children. Emergency medications were not stored in the classroom with children. Emergency medications were stored in the office.
Violation corrected during visit
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60001730 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
Jul 2024 Unannounced visit 1 finding
Unannounced visit · July 18, 2024
Health and safety training topics were not included as part of on-going training within five years of completing the previous health and safety training topics. Health and safety training topic recognizing and responding to child abuse was not included as part of on-going training within five years of completing the previous health and safety training topics for one(1) employee.
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/25/2024
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60001730 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
Shortlist replaces people’s names in the state’s text with initials. This is done by rule, not by hand, so it can miss a name or shorten a word that isn’t one. The state’s report, linked on each row, has the original.
A day here
- Meals
- Provides infant cereal and baby food, prepared in a sanitized kitchen area (the brand’s policy for all its schools)
Outdoors and sleep
- Outdoors
- Infants have a separate outdoor play area and go outdoors daily as weather permits (the brand’s policy for all its schools)
- Sleep
- Infants have an assigned crib; children transitioning to the One Year Old room use mats instead of cribs (the brand’s policy for all its schools)
How they teach
Creative Curriculum
“We use The Creative Curriculum in our infant classroom.”
Details
- Phone
- (704) 398-3103
- Address
- 1136 Little Rock Rd, Charlotte, 28214
- License
- 60001730
- Quality program
- Five Star License
- Ages they serve
- Infants beginning at six weeks of age through the Three's and Four's classroom
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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.
How they teach
- Approach tinytreasurescdc.com
State record
From North Carolina DCDEE’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
A day here
- Meals, Outdoors, Sleep tinytreasurescdc.com
Details
- Phone, Address, License, Quality program ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 60001730 under License Number, and open the result.
- Website tinytreasurescdc.com
- Ages they serve tinytreasurescdc.com
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.