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Harvard Avenue School

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At a glance

  • Medium center, licensed for 67 children.
  • Hours 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 5 days a week.
  • Tuition Toddler $2,070, preschool $1,910 a month, full time. See costs
  • Run by a for-profit business.

From their website, read July 2026:

“Preschool Program (Madison Valley and Capitol Hill campuses, for children 3 and 4 years of age) We offer Preschool classes at both our Capitol Hill campus and our Madison Valley campus. Parents may choose a schedule of 2 to 5 days a week. There are up to eighteen children in class each day with three teachers.”

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

License: 12 months to 5 years (state).

The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since February 2024. It lists no valid complaint about this center.

See each inspection

Licensing inspections

  • Oct 3, 20251 citation
    • Training requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.

      • “Licensor observed staff B.C, A.H, are missing current food worker card in Merit.”

        WAC 110-300-0106(12)

  • Dec 16, 2024Nothing cited
  • Feb 26, 20242 citations
    • Safety requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.

      • “Window blind upstairs in top floor classroom, observed no longer attached to the window sill and is no longer observed retrofitted. Pull cord now forms a loop, is accessible to children and poses a safety risk to children.”

        WAC 110-300-0165(2)(b)

    • Training requirementsSerious. Fix within 5 business days. The licensor rechecks within 10.

      • “In Merit, one staff has not met basic training requirements. The staff is an assistant teacher. Not all staff have current food workers cards and are expired. One assistant teacher hired for more than 3 months, has not completed child care basic training. Not all staff have current BBP training and are expired.”

        WAC 110-300-0106(12)

The state cited rules at 2 of this center's 3 inspections. Seattle-area centers inspected 3 times split about evenly: about a third had fewer, a third the same, and a third more (364 centers).

How all 364 Seattle-area centers inspected 3 times compare

Of the 364 Seattle-area centers the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

  • None12%
  • 1 of 321%
  • 2 of 335%This center
  • All 333%
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Washington DCYF

Last visit
October 3, 2025
On file
3 visits since February 2024 — 1 cited nothing
Most serious
Serious — Licensor observed staff B.C, A.H, are missing current food worker card in Merit. · October 3, 2025

Washington DCYF publishes each citation in the licensor’s own words, with a risk level.

Oct 2025 Licensing visit 1 finding

Licensing visit · October 3, 2025

Training requirements

WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious

Licensor observed staff B.C, A.H, are missing current food worker card in Merit.

Report (PDF)

Dec 2024 Licensing visit nothing cited Report (PDF)
Feb 2024 Licensing visit 2 findings

Licensing visit · February 26, 2024

Safety requirements

WAC 110-300-0165(2)(b) · Serious

Window blind upstairs in top floor classroom, observed no longer attached to the window sill and is no longer observed retrofitted. Pull cord now forms a loop, is accessible to children and poses a safety risk to children.

Training requirements

WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious

In Merit, one staff has not met basic training requirements. The staff is an assistant teacher. Not all staff have current food workers cards and are expired. One assistant teacher hired for more than 3 months, has not completed child care basic training. Not all staff have current BBP training and are expired.

Report (PDF)

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.

What it costs

Toddler$2,070
Preschool$1,910

Harvard Avenue SchoolMost Seattle-area prices (middle 80%)

Monthly, full time. The band is the middle 80% of Seattle-area full-time prices for that age; 82 toddler and 113 preschool programs publish one.

Part time
$780 to $1,765 a month
Application fee
$50
Deposit
$500

A day here

9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 5 days a week

Meals, outdoors and schedule
Meals
Families send a snack and lunch each day; school provides no food and cannot heat food
Outdoors
Outdoor activities are part of the everyday schedule
Schedule
Half-day

Policies

Enrollment
Non-refundable $50 application; $500 enrollment deposit required to secure a spot when offered; Preschool and Pre-K families join a waitlist

Details

Phone
(206) 329-5187
Address
201 Harvard Avenue E, Seattle, 98102
License
PL-77891

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Children per adult

What it costs

State record

From Washington DCYF’s published reports, last checked November 3, 2026.

Washington’s four risk levels, highest first: Immediate, Serious, Short Term, Long Term. Deadlines from DCYF procedure PRO 10.1.21.

Ages

Age groups as Washington defines them: WAC 110-300-0005 (infant to 11 months, toddler 12 to 29 months, preschool 30 months to 6 years, school age 5 to 12 years).

A day here

Policies

Details

Medium means the middle half of Seattle-area’s 855 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 41 to 115 children. Small is 6 to 40; 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.

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