Seattle · Licensed center
Creative Kids Learning Center
At a glance
- Small HighScope center, licensed for 16 children.
- Hours 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5 days a week.
- Run by a for-profit business.
From their website, read July 2026:
“Our staff to child ratios are 1:10 but we strive for 1:8 or less for our Preschool or mixed age classrooms.”
The state’s rule
Washington sets the most children one adult may care for by age, and the largest group size, in WAC 110-300-0356(5).
Infants (birth through 11 months): one adult for every four.
Toddlers (12 through 29 months): one adult for every seven.
Preschoolers (30 months through 6 years, not in kindergarten): one adult for every ten.
School-age children: one adult for every fifteen.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited no rules at any of its 2 licensing inspections since July 2025. It lists no valid complaint about this center.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Nov 18, 2025Nothing cited
- Jul 17, 2025Nothing cited
The state cited no rules at any of this center's 2 inspections. Most Seattle-area centers inspected twice had at least one: 69% of 78.
How all 78 Seattle-area centers inspected twice compare
Of the 78 Seattle-area centers the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None31%This center
- 1 of 237%
- Both32%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Washington DCYF
- Last visit
- November 18, 2025
- On file
- 2 visits since July 2025 — both cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Nothing was cited, so there is nothing to correct.
- Most serious
- Nothing was cited at any visit on file.
Washington DCYF publishes each citation in the licensor’s own words, with a risk level.
What it costs
- Application fee
- $150
A day here
8 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5 days a week
Meals, outdoors, sleep and four more
- Meals
- Meals and snacks prepared by Seattle Public Schools Nutrition Services to USDA CACFP/National School Lunch standards; served family style
- Outdoors
- Outdoor programming daily; minimum 60-90 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity, with listed weather exceptions
- Sleep
- Rest period offered to children under five in care more than six hours; quiet activities for non-nappers; no child forced to sleep
- Diapers
- Parents supply diapers/toilet-training diapers (if applicable to the child)
- Updates for parents
- Email, Teaching Strategies Gold (TSG) anecdotal notes, phone calls, Friday folders, newsletters
- Schedule
- Full-day
- Closed
- 8 holidays and breaks a year
Dates
Closed for federal/state holidays and school breaks per the SPS district calendar: State In-service Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break, MLK Jr. Day, Mid-Winter Break, Spring Break, Memorial Day
How they teach
HighScope, Reggio Emilia, nature and outdoor and STEAM
“All of our activities are focused around science, technology, engineering, art, and math ( STEAM ).”
Policies
- When a child is sick
- Fever of 101°F (100.4°F if under two months) with behavior change or other illness signs, vomiting twice in 24 hours, and other listed symptoms mean exclusion; a doctor's letter may be required to return
- Special needs
- Requires a written individual care plan for children with special needs/allergies; accompanies IEP, IHP, 504 Plan, or IFSP where applicable
- Enrollment
- 1 month notice required to terminate care; tuition is not refunded upon termination
Details
- Phone
- (206) 252-4396
- Address
- 950 NW Carkeek Park Rd, Seattle, 98177
- License
- PL-85701
- Quality program
- Early Achievers Enrolled
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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.
Children per adult
- Children per adult — Checked July 2026 creativekidsseattle.com/…/bfa96d_0d459c58cd1645e89046966bf132092a.pdf
How they teach
- Approach — Checked July 2026 creativekidsseattle.com
What it costs
- Application fee — Checked September 2026 creativekidsseattle.com
State record
From Washington DCYF’s published reports, last checked November 3, 2026.
Ages
A day here
- Meals, Outdoors, Sleep, Updates for parents, Closed — Checked June 2026 creativekidsseattle.com/…/bfa96d_0d459c58cd1645e89046966bf132092a.pdf
- Diapers — Checked July 2026 creativekidsseattle.com/…/bfa96d_0d459c58cd1645e89046966bf132092a.pdf
- Hours, Schedule — Checked September 2026 creativekidsseattle.com
Policies
- When a child is sick — Checked June 2026 creativekidsseattle.com/…/bfa96d_0d459c58cd1645e89046966bf132092a.pdf
- Special needs, Enrollment — Checked August 2026 creativekidsseattle.com/…/bfa96d_0d459c58cd1645e89046966bf132092a.pdf
Details
- Phone — Checked April 2026 creativekidsseattle.com
- Website — Checked July 2026 creativekidsseattle.com
- Address, Quality program — Checked June 2026 data.wa.gov
- License — Checked March 2026 data.wa.gov
- Ages on the license — Checked September 2026 findchildcarewa.org
- Ages they serve — Checked September 2026 creativekidsseattle.com
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 data.seattle.gov
Small means the smallest quarter of Seattle-area’s 855 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 6 to 40 children. Medium is 41 to 115; large is 116 to 323.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.