The Goddard School in Wilmington
A licensed child care center in Wilmington, Delaware 19801
111 South West Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801. (302) 651-7995.
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The short answer
Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Oct 23, 2026.
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?
3 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on May 6, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
9 violations cited in the last three years.
Source:
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
9 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
Source:
Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each violation, in its source’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.
Source:
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
May 6, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. Health appraisal with TB for Staff #1.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure all surfaces are cleanable. _Repair back in the Herons’ classroom.”
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Feeding of Infants
“Ensure infant feeding schedules are completed and updated monthly. -Send updated feeding schedules for all infants in the Ducklings classroom.”
May 12, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs two references.”
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Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
“Ensure cots are labeled or an updated cot chart is current and posted. -Corrected at visit.”
May 3, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #2 needs two references. Staff #2 needs two additional references and OCCL health and safety training.”
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Children’s Attendance
“Ensure children are signed in at arrival time. One child not signed in-Corrected at visit”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure surfaces are clean and cleanable. -Clean or replace the rug in the toddler classroom, repair the back wall in the heron classroom, fix ceiling tiles in the eagle room, and clean the vent in the eagle room.”
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Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
“Ensure cots are labeled or the current cot is posted. Post cot charts in three classrooms.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 3 violations cited |
| May 12, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 2 violations cited |
| May 3, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 4 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 8 years.
- Licence number 1333325.
- Capacity: 156 children.
Source:
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 19 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: No Evidence to Substantiate (12), Substantiated (7).
Source:
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | What | Detail |
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| Apr 13, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On March 23, 2026, and March 24, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received two complaints regarding concerns of failing to use positive behavior supports. An investigation was conducted on March 26, 2026. Based on interviews conducted, this complaint is substantiated for failing to use positive behavior supports. Three staff members, who were interviewed separately and were in a position to observe, stated they have observed a staff member grabbing and slamming children into chairs. |
| Oct 7, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on September 24, 2025, regarding concerns of not following up on biting incidents properly, use of inappropriate tones from staff, not following meal policies, and nap cots being too close during nap. An investigation was conducted on October 1, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for not following up on children biting based on staff interviews conducted and observations of completed injury/incident reports. All staff members interviewed stated they follow the facility’s biting policy by completing injury/incident reports, and families are notified of all incidents. LS #1 and LS #2 observed completed phone log and completed injury/incident reports. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for use of inappropriate tones from staff members based on staff interviews conducted. All staff members interviewed stated they have not observed any inappropriate tones within the facility and denied using inappropriate tones within the facility. Administrator #1 stated no concerns about this have been brought to their attention by families or staff and no negative tones were heard during this visit. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for not following meal policies based on staff interviews conducted. All staff members interviewed stated parents provide lunch, and when a child does not have lunch, they will provide snacks until the child’s lunch arrives at the facility. The parent handbook states the facility does not provide lunches, and parents must provide. The facility s kitchen is not approved by OCCL to provide meals, only snacks. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for nap cots being too close during naptime based on classroom observations. All classrooms observed while preparing for naptime had the cots at least 18 inches apart. |
| Sep 26, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on August 14, 2025, regarding concerns of improper staff-to-child ratios and concerns of improper discipline and overuse of confining equipment with infants. An investigation was conducted on August 15, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for improper staff-to-child ratios based on interviews with staff members and review of attendance records. Classrooms observed at the time of this visit were within the correct staff-to-child ratio, and attendance records reviewed showed all infant and toddler classrooms within the correct staff-to-child ratio during the week of August 11, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for improper discipline based on staff interviews. Owner #1, Administrator #1, and three staff members were interviewed and all denied witnessing or participating in any improper discipline within the facility and denied using confining equipment with infants for a period of longer than 30 minutes. |
| May 28, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On May 14, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of improper discipline and inappropriate interactions with children. An investigation was conducted on May 20, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for improper discipline based on staff interviews. Administrator #1 and all staff members interviewed stated they have not witnessed any improper discipline within the facility. All staff members interviewed stated they have not used improper discipline. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for inappropriate interactions with children based on staff interviews. Administrator #1 and seven staff members interviewed stated they have not observed inappropriate interactions between staff members and children. However, one staff member stated they have heard a staff member using inappropriate tones when speaking with children. |
| May 7, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On April 16, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of improper discipline. An investigation was conducted on April 16, 2025. Administrator #1 and eight staff members interviewed stated they have not witnessed any improper discipline within the facility. One staff member stated they heard about Staff #1 hitting a child on the head, but did not observe it. All staff members interviewed stated they have not used improper discipline. |
| Apr 30, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On April 10, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of staff-to-child ratios and providing care for children of various ages in the office, a space not designated for child care. An investigation was conducted on April 16, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for staff-to-child ratios based on classroom observations and staff interviews. All staff interviewed stated staff-to-child ratios are followed at all times. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for providing care of various ages in the office, a space not designated for child care, based on staff interviews and observations of the facility. All staff interviewed stated children do not receive care in the office, and no children were observed in the office. Attendance records at the time of this visit did not show any classrooms out of staff-to-child ratio; this facility was cited a week prior to this report for staff-to-child ratios, so historical attendance records were not viewed at this visit. |
| Apr 23, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On April 3, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received two complaints regarding concerns of improper staff-to-child ratios and caring for children in spaces not designated for child care. An investigation was conducted on April 7, 2025. This complaint is substantiated for improper staff-to-child ratios based on classroom observations and attendance records reviewed for the week of March 31, 2025, through April 4, 2025. Upon arrival on April 7, 2025, the infant classroom had ten children with two staff members before transitioning children to their assigned classrooms, the two-year-old classroom had 12 children with one staff member until another staff member arrived and corrected the staff-to-child ratio, and the combined three-year-old and four-year-old opening classroom had 17 children with one staff member before transitioning the children to their assigned classrooms. Attendance records showed on March 31, 2025, the infant classroom had ten children with two staff members and the combined three-year-old and four-year-old opening classroom had 13 children with one staff member. On April 1, 2025, the infant classroom had ten children with two staff members, the one-year-old classroom had 14 children signed in with two staff members, and the combined three-year-old and four-year-old opening classroom had 15 children signed in with one staff member. On April 2, 2025, the combined three-year-old and four-year-old opening classroom had 16 children with one staff member. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for children receiving care in spaces not designated for child care based on interviews conducted and attendance records reviewed. Owner #1 and four staff members were interviewed and stated children do not receive care in unlicensed spaces and attendance records reviewed did not show any children signed in unlicensed spaces. An additional concern noted was staff attendance not being documented correctly or accurately for meal break s. |
| Apr 2, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On March 10, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of not using respectful communication. An investigation was conducted beginning March 24, 2025, and completed on March 27, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for lack of respectful communication based on interviews conducted. Staff interviewed stated they have no knowledge of any incidents occurring with disrespectful communication and stated no concerns have been brought to their attention from families or other staff. |
| Feb 18, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On January 29, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of improper staff-to-child ratios. An investigation was conducted on February 3, 2025. This complaint is substantiated for improper staff-to-child ratios based on staff interviews and attendance records reviewed. Three of the eight staff members interviewed stated on occasion the classrooms will be over the staff-to-child ratio, normally in the mornings or around lunch breaks. One staff member stated classrooms go over the staff-to-child ratio all the time. One week of attendance records were reviewed and showed the infant classroom with five children with one staff member for up to nine minutes on two different days. An additional concern noted was staff attendance not being documented correctly or accurately for meal breaks. An additional concern noted was attendance records reflected children were being signed out of their classroom and signed into the office for periods of time on January 27, 2025, and January 29, 2025. |
| Feb 13, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On January 29, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of not using respectful communication with staff. An investigation was conducted on February 3, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for not using respectful communication with staff based on the preponderance of information received from staff in the separate interviews conducted. While two of the staff interviewed stated they had heard that the administrator had used disrespectful communication, they had not heard it directly themselves. Five of the eight staff members interviewed separately stated Administrator #1 has used respectful communication while only one staff member stated the administrator had been disrespectful. |
| Nov 26, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On November 15, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of improper discipline. An investigation was conducted on November 22, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for improper discipline based on interviews conducted. All staff members interviewed stated they have not participated in or witnessed improper discipline within the facility. |
| Nov 25, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On October 31, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of lack of respectful communication. An investigation was conducted on November 12, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for concerns of lack of respectful communication based on interviews conducted. All staff members interviewed stated Administrator #1 used respectful communication when speaking with Parent #1. While the Reporter was also concerned about the facility refusing to heat a child s lunch, the facility has a written policy provided to parents that no meals will be heated, and the facility does not have approval from OCCL to prepare meals. |
| Nov 25, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On October 31, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of staff-to-child ratios and concerns of respectful communication amongst staff. An investigation was conducted on November 12, 2024. This complaint is substantiated for concerns of lack of respectful communication amongst staff based on interviews conducted. Seven of the nine staff interviewed stated Administrator #1 has used inappropriate language and tones towards staff members. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for staff-to-child ratios based on interviews conducted and attendance records reviewed. While two of nine staff members interviewed stated rooms do go out of staff-to-child ratios at times, they did not provide specific examples and attendance records did not reflect this. An additional concern noted was staff attendance not being documented correctly or accurately for meal breaks. |
| Nov 4, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On October 22, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of mold on refrigerators doors. An investigation was conducted on October 28, 2024. This complaint is substantiated for mold on the refrigerators doors based on observation of all refrigerators in the facility. LS #1 and LS #2 observed mold on the seals of three of the four refrigerators in the facility. |
| Sep 27, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On September 4, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received two complaints regarding concerns of infants not being cared for in child care space, safe sleep violations, and staff not using respectful communication amongst each other. An investigation was conducted on September 12, 2024. This complaint is substantiated for lack of respectful communication amongst staff based on interviews conducted. Six of the eight staff members interviewed stated Administrator #1 does not always demonstrate respectful communication due to using degrading language towards children, parents, and staff. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for concerns of infants not being cared for in child care space based on interviews conducted. Staff interviewed stated infants are not being cared for in unlicensed care spaces. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for safe sleep violations based on interviews conducted. All staff interviewed stated children do not sleep in bouncy seats and if a child falls asleep in a chair they are moved immediately to their crib. |
| Sep 17, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On August 26, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of incorrect staff-to-child ratio, exceeding maximum group size, lack of supervision, children cared for in unlicensed care space, and lack of respectful communication. An investigation was conducted on August 29, 2024. This complaint is substantiated for lack of supervision based on interviews conducted. Owner #1 stated Staff #1 was sleeping in the classroom with children present and Staff #1 s employment was terminated immediately. This complaint is substantiated for children being cared for in unlicensed care space based on interviews conducted. Administrator #1 stated she would care for a child in the office if needed to maintain the ratio or maximum group size of the classroom. This complaint is substantiated for lack of respectful communication based on interviews conducted. Nine of the 13 staff members interviewed stated Administrator #1 does not always demonstrate respectful communication with all staff members. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for incorrect staff-to-child ratios based on staff interviews and review of attendance records. Staff interviewed stated classrooms do not go over ratio and attendance records reflected classrooms were in ratio. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for exceeding the maximum group size based on staff interviews and attendance records. Staff interviewed stated classroom do not go over maximum group size and attendance records reviewed reflect no classrooms exceeding the maximum group size. |
| Sep 4, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On August 8, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding concerns of a staff member using intoxicating substances while working with children. An investigation was conducted on August 14, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for concerns of the use of intoxicating substances while working with children based on interviews conducted with six staff members and Administrator #1. All staff interviewed stated they have never observed any staff member come into the facility under the influence of intoxicating substances and have never done so themselves. No staff members present at the facility appeared to be intoxicated at the time of the on-site visit. |
| Jul 5, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on June 10, 2024, regarding concerns of not notifying a parent of exposure to a contagious illness. An investigation was conducted on June 14, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for not notifying a parent of exposure to a contagious illness based on interviews conducted and documents observed. The Owner and Administrator were interviewed and stated families are notified of any exposures to illnesses. The email sent to families regarding exposure to hand, foot, and mouth disease was observed. |
| Feb 13, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on January 22, 2024, regarding concerns of sleep equipment not being labeled and not being used by only one child in the infant room. An investigation was conducted on January 31, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for sleep equipment not being labeled and not being used by only one child based on a walkthrough of the infant classrooms, and interviews with the administrator and three infant staff members. |
Who does the caring?
- Delaware doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers.
Who owns it?
- Delaware’s open data doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- 2026: 2 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.
- 2021: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
Source:
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Providers aren’t compared: Delaware lists only the visits that found violations, so a count can’t tell a clean record from one never visited.
Source:
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
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| Kid’s Kingdom Elc Inc. | Not given |
| Junebug’s Little Rubies Preschool, LLC | Not given |
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What the record doesn’t say
- Delaware doesn’t grade violations by severity, so read what was cited.
- Delaware’s open data lists a visit only when a violation was cited there, so visits that found nothing aren’t shown.
- Delaware publishes five years of reviews and complaints; this page shows the last three.
- Delaware doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.
- Delaware lists only the visits that found violations, so a provider with none listed may not have been visited at all: no count of violations is used to headline, filter or compare its providers.
Sources
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities (iuzd-3dbt).
Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information (wb83-pkcv).
Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews (pnbd-85r6).
Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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Source:
This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.
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