Chicago · Licensed center
Bright Scholars Academy
- Medium center, licensed for 51 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What these mean, and where they come from
Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.
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: 3 of 3 cited something
Chicago-area centers: the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits. Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- August 11, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since December 2022 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 10, 2025. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
- Most serious
- Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.
Aug 2025 Monitoring visit 7 findings
Monitoring visit · August 11, 2025
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e) through (6) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e) · 407.370(e)(2) · 407.370(e)(3) · 407.370(e)(6)
Organization and Administration
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e) · Violation substantiated
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation substantiated
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(6) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 569637 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jun 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · June 9, 2025
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d) through (e)(3) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d) · 407.260(e)(3)
Qualifications for Child Care Director
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(i)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 569637 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2022 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · December 13, 2022
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected on site
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 569637 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
How the comparison is built
Routine visits: across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).
Details
- Address
- 8501 S Ashland Ave
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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All checked July 2026.
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
Details
- Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "BRIGHT SCHOLARS ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60620 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 569637).