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Goddard School of Hockessin

A licensed child care center in Hockessin, Delaware 19707

157 Lantana Drive, Hockessin, Delaware 19707. (302) 223-2205.

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 15 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 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?

3 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Jul 10, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

15 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

15 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

15 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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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.

Jul 10, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. CPR and First Aid for Staff #1. Release of employment and services letters for Staff #2.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 5, 2026.

  • Diapering and Soiled Clothing

    “Ensure diaper changing mats are cleanable and rip-free. Replace the torn diaper changing mat in the Infant classroom.”

    Rule 61U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jul 10, 2026.

Jan 21, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review8 violations

  • Staff Qualifications

    “Ensure staff are qualified to be alone with children. An EC Intern was alone with four infants. Corrected at visit.”

    Rule 24U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. References for Staff #1, #2, and #4. Orientation for Staff #3 and #4. Out-of-state clearances for Staff #4.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 26, 2026.

  • Toilet Facilities

    “Ensure all surfaces are cleanable. -Replace the missing tile in the Preschool bathroom.”

    Rule 51U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 30, 2026.

  • Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments

    “Ensure nap mats are rip-free. Replace torn mats in PreK, Two’s, and preschool classrooms.”

    Rule 56U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 30, 2026.

  • Equipment

    “Ensure equipment is accessible for children. No toys were observed on the shelves in the Toddler A and Toddler B classrooms.”

    Rule 57U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 12, 2026.

  • Hand Washing

    “Ensure staff and children’s hands are washed after each diaper change.”

    Rule 59U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 13, 2026.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Ensure monthly fire drills are conducted monthly. -Send January and February’s fire drill log to OCCL.”

    Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 18, 2026.

  • Lesson Plans

    “Ensure lesson plans are complete and posted. -Toddler A had outdated lesson plans posted.”

    Rule 74U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 30, 2026.

Nov 14, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs CPR and First Aid.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 10, 2025.

  • Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments

    “Ensure nap mats are cleanable and tear-free. Replace all torn nap mats in the Pre-K classroom.”

    Rule 56U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 21, 2025.

  • Equipment

    “Ensure equipment is accessible for children in the Toddler A classroom and replace or repair the book in the older twos classroom.”

    Rule 57U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 10, 2025.

  • Diapering and Soiled Clothing

    “Ensure diaper changing mat is cleanable. Replace or repair the torn diaper changing mat in the Toddler B classroom.”

    Rule 61U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 10, 2025.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Ensure there is emergency water for the number of children enrolled.”

    Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 21, 2025.

All 3 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 10, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations cited
Jan 21, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review8 violations cited
Nov 14, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child Care Center.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 6 years.
  • Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Licence number 1667285.
  • Capacity: 117 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.

12 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Boys & Girls Club @ William F. Cooke Jr ElementaryNot given
Carmen BarnettNot given
Enchanted Minds Child Care CenterNot given
Wilmington Christian School Early Learning CenterNot given
Goddard School of Hockessin This child care providerNot given
Innovative Kids Early Learning Academy - HockessinNot given
The Goddard School in HockessinNot given
C.a.c.c. Montessori SchoolNot given
La Petite Academy (Limestone)Not given
Early Learning CenterNot given
The Hockessin Montessori SchoolNot given
Kindercare (Lancaster Pike)Not 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.

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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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