Bartlett · Licensed center
Kripa Montessori School
A center in Bartlett, licensed for 89 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Medium center. 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: 1 of 2 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits). Two 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
- March 6, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since April 2025 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due April 6, 2026. 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.
Mar 2026 Monitoring visit 10 findings
Monitoring visit · March 6, 2026
General Requirements for Personnel
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d) through (f) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d) · 407.100(f)
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(a) through (e)(11) · Violation substantiated · Violation corrected on site
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(a) · 407.370(e)(11)
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation substantiated
Nutrition and Meal Service
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(g) · Violation substantiated
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(a)(5) · Violation corrected on site
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation substantiated
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 628526 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 6505336966
- Address
- 379 Bartlett Plz
- License
- license issued (il)
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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 August 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 "KRIPA MONTESSORI SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60103 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 628526).