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The Early Learning Center at Pine LLC

A licensed child care center in Wilmington, Delaware 19801

502 North Pine Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801. (302) 651-9400.

Delaware’s own record, on data.delaware.gov

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The short answer

Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Oct 23, 2026.

The last 24 months 7 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Every month

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?

2 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on May 21, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

7 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

7 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

7 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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 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 21, 2026: unannounced5 violations

  • Staff Qualifications

    “Ensure staff have a DEEDS certificate in order to be alone with children. Staff #1 was observed taking children to the bathroom without the proper qualifications. Submit Staff #1’s DEEDS certificate to OCCL by 6/15/2026 and have Staff #1 apply for her certification by 5/29/2026.”

    Rule 24U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jul 15, 2026.

  • Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision

    “Ensure staff have a DEEDS certificate in order to be alone with children. Staff #1 was observed taking children to the bathroom without the proper qualifications, therefore leaving the other staff member out of ratio. Submit Staff #1’s DEEDS certificate to OCCL by 6/15/2026 and have Staff #1 apply for her certification by 5/29/2026.”

    Rule 27U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jul 15, 2026.

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs their health and safety training, 4 references, a DEEDS certificate, 2 documented attempts (service letter), and an eligibility letter (out of state). Staff #2 needs their DEEDS certificate, health and safety training, and 4 references.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jul 15, 2026.

  • Feeding of Infants

    “Submit infant feeding schedule for Child #1.”

    Rule 72U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 28, 2026.

  • Infant and Toddler Care

    “Ensure infant highchairs have a T-strap. This was corrected when 1 highchair was removed.”

    Rule 77U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 21, 2026.

Mar 25, 2026: 60-Day Visit2 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Submit the following staff file items: Health/Safety Training, Administration of Medication, and returned service letter or 2 documented attempts for Staff #1. CPR/FA and TB results for Staff #2. CPR/FA, Administration of Medication, release of employment history, and a returned service letter or 2 documented attempts for Staff #3.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 20, 2026.

  • License Renewal

    “2026 State Business License.”

    Rule 8U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 20, 2026.

All 2 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 21, 2026Unannounced5 violations cited
Mar 25, 202660-Day Visit2 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child Care Center.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 12 years.
  • Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Licence number 1631947.
  • 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?

  • No complaint investigations in the last three years.
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.

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: 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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Learning Center at Madison StreetNot given
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Ark South Learning CenterNot given

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

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing. Delaware’s own record is on data.delaware.gov. 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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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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