Licensed center
Learn & Play Early Learning Center
A center, licensed for 50 children. No complaint investigation has found a violation here, true of 182 of 210 similar-size Seattle-area centers.
Medium center. Medium means the middle half of Seattle-area’s 859 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 41 to 114 children. Small is 6 to 40; large is 115 to 323.
How they teach
Not published
Who cares for your child
Not published
What it costs
Not published
Shortlist can ask Learn & Play Early Learning Center for what it has not published: how they teach, who is with the children and for how long, what it costs and sick and biting policies. The answer will go on this page.
What the state has found
No complaint investigation has found a violation since February 2023
182: none28: one to four0: five or more
The 210 Seattle-area centers licensed for 41 to 70 children, the size band this one falls in, as of September 26, 2026.
Larger centers have more complaint investigations, so Learn & Play Early Learning Center (50 children) is compared with centers its size.
Routine visits: 2 of 3 cited something
Across Seattle-area centers, the state cites something at about 2 in 3 routine visits (1,966 visits). Three 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
- August 22, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since March 2024 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Washington DCYF does not publish whether a finding was corrected.
- Most serious
- Serious —
Child 1 with food allergy needs an ICP on file.
· March 1, 2024
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.
Aug 2025 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · August 22, 2025
Outdoor early learning program space
WAC 110-300-0145(11) · Short Term
licensor observed during the visit that the gate is not selflatching
Mar 2024 Licensing visit 4 findings
Licensing visit · March 1, 2024
Outdoor early learning program space
WAC 110-300-0145(11) · Short Term
Exit gate on south fence is no longer self-latching.
WAC 110-300-0345(5)(b) · Short Term
Alarms on all exit doors are hard to hear when children are engaged in play.
Food allergies and special dietary needs
WAC 110-300-0186(1) · Serious
Child 1 with food allergy needs an ICP on file.
WAC 110-300-0275(4) · Short Term
Need a child care health consultant to support staff working with infants in care.
A day here
Not published
Details
- Website
- learnnplay.org
- Address
- 10216 SE 256th St Ste 104
- License
- PL-83590, active
- 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.
All checked September 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
- Website — learnnplay.org
- Address, License, Quality program — data.wa.gov