City of San Rafael - Parkside Children’s Center
A day care center in San Rafael, California 94901
51 Albert Park Lane, San Rafael, California 94901. (415) 485-3388.
What California’s list coversNo small family homes
Child care centers, and family child care homes licensed for more than eight children: the files California’s Community Care Licensing Division publishes. Smaller family child care homes, for eight children or fewer, aren’t in those files, so they aren’t here yet.
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The short answer
Record last released by California Department of Social Services on Nov 1, 2026.
- 5 citations in the last three years
- Nov 172025 the latest visit on record
- 50 children, its licensed capacity
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean4
- 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.
- 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?
6 visits in the last three years, 2 of them inspections.
5 citations with a correction due in the last three years; California’s file gives 1 California grades each citation by risk. Type A, the most serious, is a violation that poses an immediate risk to residents’ health, safety or personal rights. Type B is one that could become that risk if it isn’t corrected. Source: California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division. and 4 Type B over all its years.
California Department of Social Services, Child care centers. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated weekly.
When those citations happened
5 citations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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| 2023 | Dec | |||||||||||
| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each citation, in its source’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.
California Department of Social Services, Child care centers. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated weekly.
Nov 5, 2025: correction due (visit not listed)2 citations
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101217(a)
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1596.8662(b)(1)
Oct 31, 2025: correction due (visit not listed)1 citation
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101217(a)
Sep 12, 2025: correction due (visit not listed)1 citation
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1596.8662(b)(1)
Mar 29, 2024: correction due (visit not listed)1 citation
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101229(a)(1)
All 6 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2025 | Other visit | Results are in California’s report |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Other visit | Results are in California’s report |
| Sep 3, 2025 | Inspection | Results are in California’s report |
| Nov 15, 2024 | Complaint visit | Results are in California’s report |
| Sep 5, 2024 | Inspection | Results are in California’s report |
| Mar 28, 2024 | Other visit | Results are in California’s report |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, first licensed Sep 14, 2001.
- Licensed for 50 children.
- Licence 213003961.
California Department of Social Services, Child care centers. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated weekly.
Has California acted against it?
- 1 complaint in the last three years: 0 allegations A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency., 0 inconclusive and 1 unsubstantiated.
California Department of Social Services, Child care centers. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated weekly.
| Date | What | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 2024 | Complaint | Allegations, in California’s words: 0 substantiated, 0 inconclusive, 1 unsubstantiated. Citations: 0 Type A, 0 Type B. |
Who does the caring?
- California doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers.
Who owns it?
- Licensed to City of San Rafael Child Care.
California Department of Social Services, Child care centers. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated weekly.
How is it rated?
- California’s file has no quality rating.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 263 child care providers in Marin County, the middle value for citations in the last three years was 0; this one had 5.
California Department of Social Services, Child care centers. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated weekly.
| Place | Citations in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Trinity Preschool | 0 |
| Redeemer Preschool and Day Care | 4 |
| City of San Rafael - Pickleweed P/S | 3 |
| City of San Rafael - Parkside Children’s Center This child care provider | 5 |
| Montessori School of Central Marin-P/S, the | 2 |
| St. Raphael - Preschool | 0 |
| C.a.m. (Cfs) San Pedro (Ps) | 0 |
| Le Petit Jardin | 0 |
| Valdivia, Elizabeth | 0 |
| Figueroa, Esly | 1 |
| C.a.m. (Cfs) -Canal Child Care Center (Ps) | 1 |
| Santizo, Rina & Alvarez, Juan | 9 |
What the record doesn’t say
- California’s bulk file gives each citation’s regulation and the date its correction was due, not the visit it came from, its type or what was found; California’s reports have those.
- California grades citations Type A (an immediate risk to health, safety or personal rights) or Type B (a potential risk).
- This page shows California’s records from the last three years.
- California doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers.
Sources
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California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division, Child care centers (ChildCareCenters11012026.csv).
Released Nov 1, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated weekly. Considered in the public domain (California Department of Social Services).
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: California Department of Social Services. California’s own record is on ccld.dss.ca.gov. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.
From the provider
The public record above comes first. Anything the provider adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.
Replies
None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the provider will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.
Paid listing
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