Licensed center
Kids Way Child Care & Early Learning Center Inc
A center, licensed for 26 children. No complaint investigation has found a violation here, true of 207 of 218 similar-size Seattle-area centers.
Small center. Small means the smallest quarter of Seattle-area’s 859 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 6 to 40 children. Medium is 41 to 114; large is 115 to 323.
How they teach
Not published
Who cares for your child
Ratio not published
One staff is named on their site, with no start year given.
What it costs
Not published
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What the state has found
No complaint investigation has found a violation since February 2023
207: none11: one to four0: five or more
The 218 Seattle-area centers licensed for 6 to 40 children, the size band this one falls in, as of September 26, 2026.
Larger centers have more complaint investigations, so Kids Way Child Care & Early Learning Center Inc (26 children) is compared with centers its size.
Routine visits: 0 of 2 cited something
Across Seattle-area centers, the state cites something at about 2 in 3 routine visits (1,966 visits). Two visits are too few to read as a pattern.
From Washington DCYF’s published reports, last checked September 26, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Washington DCYF
- Last visit
- September 30, 2025
- On file
- 2 visits since March 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 the licensor’s own observation and a risk level for every citation it issues at a licensing visit, with the inspection report attached as a PDF.
A day here
Not published
Details
- Website
- kidsway.org
- Address
- 12211 20th St NE
- License
- PL-11043, active
- Quality program
- Early Achievers Level 3
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Sources and dates
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Who cares for your child
- Staff — kidsway.org
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
- Website — Checked September 2026 · kidsway.org
- Address, License, Quality program — Checked September 2026 · data.wa.gov