Hearth Record

Little Neighbors Preschool

A child care center in Bentonville, Arkansas 72712

2702 SW I St Ste 2, Bentonville, Arkansas 72712. (479) 367-2321.

What Arkansas’s list coversSome counties so far

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The short answer

The last 24 months 8 deficiencies in 8 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: Serious Deficiency. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean6
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
The state’s most serious level
Each state grades findings on its own scale and in its own words, so the record counts a state’s findings at that state’s top level. Two states’ top levels aren’t the same thing, so the counts aren’t compared across states. Source: How this site reads each state’s scale.
Quality rating
Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

33 visits in the last three years, the latest on Aug 18, 2026.

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years, 6 of them serious.

Arkansas lists 5 complaints, the latest received May 12, 2026; it lists regulations cited for 5 of them.

Serious Deficiency: At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc., Jun 18, 2026

Serious Deficiency: The following staff child ratios shall be maintained: Ages of Children Number of Staff Number of Children, May 12, 2026

Serious Deficiency: At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc., Apr 24, 2026

3 more at that level; all are listed below.

Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing and Facility complaints, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

8 deficiencies in 8 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: Serious Deficiency. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

8 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in its source’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.

Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 18, 2026: complaint Visit1 deficiency

  • At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc.

    Rule 300.301.8. Serious Deficiency. From a complaint. Correction date, as Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood recorded it: Jun 19, 2026.

May 12, 2026: complaint Visit1 deficiency

  • The following staff child ratios shall be maintained: Ages of Children Number of Staff Number of Children

    Rule 300.301.2.b. Serious Deficiency. From a complaint.

Apr 24, 2026: complaint Visit1 deficiency

  • At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc.

    Rule 300.301.8. Serious Deficiency. From a complaint. Correction date, as Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood recorded it: May 6, 2026.

Mar 19, 2026: complaint Visit1 deficiency

  • The following staff child ratios shall be maintained: Ages of Children Number of Staff Number of Children

    Rule 300.301.2.a. Serious Deficiency. From a complaint.

Feb 12, 2026: child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit1 deficiency

  • All bags belonging to children shall be checked on arrival to eliminate possible hazards.

    Rule 1200.1201.18. Non-Compliant.

Apr 7, 2025: complaint Visit1 deficiency

  • At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc.

    Rule 300.301.8. Serious Deficiency. From a complaint.

Oct 7, 2024: complaint Visit1 deficiency

  • The child care facility shall maintain a record for each child in care which shall be on site. Records for children no longer enrolled may be maintained off site. Children’s records shall contain the following information:

    Rule 600.604.1.i. Non-Compliant. From a complaint.

Apr 10, 2024: complaint Visit1 deficiency

  • At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc.

    Rule 300.301.8. Serious Deficiency. From a complaint.

All 33 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 18, 2026Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jun 18, 2026Complaint Visit1 deficiency cited, 1 serious
May 12, 2026Complaint Visit1 deficiency cited, 1 serious
Apr 24, 2026Complaint Visit1 deficiency cited, 1 serious
Mar 27, 2026Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Mar 19, 2026Complaint Visit1 deficiency cited, 1 serious
Feb 12, 2026Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit1 deficiency cited
Oct 3, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Aug 27, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jul 22, 2025Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Apr 25, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Apr 7, 2025Complaint Visit1 deficiency cited, 1 serious
Jan 16, 2025Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review VisitNo deficiencies cited
Oct 22, 2024Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Oct 7, 2024Complaint Visit1 deficiency cited
Sep 25, 2024Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jul 17, 2024Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jul 2, 2024Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jul 1, 2024Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jul 1, 2024Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
May 23, 2024Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
May 23, 2024Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Apr 19, 2024Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Apr 19, 2024Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Apr 10, 2024Complaint Visit1 deficiency cited, 1 serious
Mar 19, 2024Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review VisitNo deficiencies cited
Mar 13, 2024Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Mar 11, 2024Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jan 30, 2024Children’s Records; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jan 10, 2024Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Dec 19, 2023Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Nov 28, 2023Child Record Review Visit; Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Oct 27, 2023Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Child Care Center.
  • Provider type: Center Based.
  • Approved capacity by age group: Infant/Toddler License Type 48, Preschool License Type 102, School Age License Type 36.
  • Capacity: 186 children.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Arkansas acted against it?

  • No corrective action agreements listed by Arkansas.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility corrective action agreements, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Arkansas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Arkansas’s record lists no owner for this provider.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How is it rated?

  • Not rated in Better Beginnings (Arkansas lists it at Level 0).
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 182 child care providers in Benton County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 0; this one had 8.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 182 in Benton County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Amazing Childcare2
Aplus Academy3
Little Neighbors Preschool This child care provider8
Bright Harbor School11
R.E. Baker Elementary1
Walton Family Whole Health & Fitness Center0
Discovery STEAM Program @ Thaden School0
Best Brains Bentonville0
Discovery STEAM Program @ Founders Classical Academy Bentonville0
Bentonville KinderCare0
Adventure Club at Old High Middle School0
Adventure Club at Elm Tree Elementary0

What the record doesn’t say

  • Arkansas’s visit records cover the last three years only.
  • Arkansas lists the regulation each deficiency cited, not what the licensing staff saw.
  • Arkansas lists complaints and the regulations their investigations cited, not what was alleged.

Sources

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood. Arkansas’s own record is on ardhslicensing.my.site.com. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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Paid listing

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How to read a record

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An example record, made up for this guide

An example nursing home

Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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