Licensed center
Solid Foundations Learning Center
A center, licensed for 22 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
Not published
What it costs
Not published
Shortlist can ask Solid Foundations Learning Center for what it has not published: how they teach, who is with the children and for how long, what it costs, hours and late pickup 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
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 Solid Foundations Learning Center (22 children) is compared with centers its size.
Routine visits: 3 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
- April 24, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since December 2023 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- Washington DCYF does not publish whether a finding was corrected.
- Most serious
- Serious —
The licensor observed that a staff member’s food handler permit was expired.
· April 24, 2026
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.
Apr 2026 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · April 24, 2026
WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious
The licensor observed that a staff member’s food handler permit was expired.
Mar 2025 Licensing visit 2 findings
Licensing visit · March 20, 2025
WAC 110-300-0106(12) · Serious
Licensor observed that bloodborne pathogens training for Ms. Julie was not current for handling a child's injury, such as an open wound exposing blood. 0106 (12) Licensor observed that the food worker card for Ms. Julie was not current while preparing or handling a child's meal.
Emergency preparation and exiting
WAC 110-300-0166(3)(b) · Serious
Licensor observed that one of the outdoor exit gates was padlocked, requiring a key to access the gate during an emergency evacuation.
Dec 2023 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · December 22, 2023
WAC 110-300-0215(3)(a)(i) · Serious
Licensor observed the child did not have the prescripted medication on site (inhaler) or an updated prescription medication authorization from to administer the medication in an event of an emergency.
A day here
- Meals
- healthy snack provided daily
- Outdoors
- outdoor play weather-permitting, with an indoor music/movement alternative
Details
- Address
- 1258 Harding St
- License
- PL-28506, active
- Quality program
- Early Achievers Level 3+
- Ages
- 2 1/2 through 5, not yet in Kindergarten
Do you run Solid Foundations Learning Center? Shortlist has no tuition, hours or ratios for it, because the state does not publish that. Add what is missing. It is free and takes about ten minutes.
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.
A day here
- Meals, Outdoors — solidfoundationspreschool.com
Details
- Website — solidfoundationspreschool.com
- Address, License, Quality program — data.wa.gov
- Ages — solidfoundationspreschool.com