Foulk Preschool (Foulk Road)
A licensed child care center in Wilmington, Delaware 19803
2 Tenby Drive, Wilmington, Delaware 19803. (302) 478-3138.
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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 Mar 5, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
13 violations cited in the last three years.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
13 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2023 | Nov | 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 |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
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.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Mar 5, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. See staff sheet for items needed for Staff #1 and #2.”
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Child Files
“Child #4 needs blood lead screening results.”
Mar 12, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations
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Staffing
“Submit documentation of the administrator’s presence at least 50% of the hours of operation.”
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Personnel Files
“Submit the following to complete staff files: professional development plans, annual training hours, and annual review of abuse and neglect for staff #1, 2, 3, 4; staff #1 needs an updated health appraisal with health clearance.”
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Child Files
“Ensure developmental plans created and annual parent teacher conferences are offered/held. Send three children’s plans to OCCL.”
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Hazardous Materials
“Submit documentation of installation of safety gates on each opening to the kitchen.”
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Kitchen and Food Preparation
“Submit documentation of the freezer thermometer reading 0 degrees F. or below.”
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Equipment
“Provide documentation of the classroom having an adequate amount of learning materials and equipment in all developmental areas for the ages and number of children enrolled.”
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First Aid Kits
“Submit documentation of the addition of a thermometer, instant cold pack, triangle bandage to the first aid kit.”
Mar 14, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 91 words
“Submit the following to complete staff files: CPR & FA certification for Staff #1, 2, and 4; professional dev. plans for staff #1, 2, and 4; annual review of abuse and neglect for staff #4 (Staff #1,2 were corrected at the visit); medication certification for Staff #4; OCCL Health and safety training documentation for Staff #3. Annual training is not determined at this time but will be non-compliant if not received by March 31, 2024. 18 hours (with 2 in health and safety) are needed for Staff #1, 2, and 4.”
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Annual Training
“Annual training is not determined at this time but will be non-compliant if not received by March 31, 2024. 18 hours (with 2 in health and safety) are needed for Staff #1, 2, and 4.”
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Area for Children Who Become Ill
“Submit documentation of repair of the chain link fencing near the parking lot and elimination of hazardous, broken cement in the covered outdoor play area.”
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Meals and Snacks
“Submit a photo of a posted current menu.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 2 violations cited |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 7 violations cited |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 4 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 1 year through 12 years.
- Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Licence number 27523.
- Capacity: 51 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 2 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: Substantiated (2).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On February 4, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding an allegations of insufficient staffing due to one staff member being present with infants and older all day, improper staff-to-child ratios, not following transportation agreements, and not following Department of Labor (DOL) meal break requirements. This complaint is substantiated for not having sufficient staff to fulfill required duties. On February 13, 2025, the center was operating with one staff member supervising nine children when licensing specialists arrived, and the staff member left the classroom unsupervised to answer the door. This complaint is substantiated for not following DOL meal break requirements because attendance records reflected that staff members have not received meal breaks on several days. This complaint is substantiated for not following transportation agreements. Due to insufficient staffing, transportation was unable to be provided for the school-age children to school, requiring the families to pick the children up from the child care center and take them to school. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for insufficient staffing or improper staff-to-child ratio with infants present because there are no children under two years old present, and attendance sheets reflect the correct staff-to-child ratio in the preschool classroom. |
| May 23, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On April 24, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing received a complaint regarding improper discipline, the center and bus being cluttered and not clean, and a staff member smoking on the premises. An investigation was conducted on April 30, 2024. This complaint is substantiated for improper discipline because while the Administrator denies hitting a child, he acknowledged he said a child was acting like a dummy. This complaint is substantiated for being cluttered indoors and outdoors. Piles of papers were observed on the stove in the kitchen, a fluorescent light bulb was on the table in the toddler room, and the bus used to transport children had seats in extreme disrepair with excessive trash on the floor. This complaint is substantiated for smoking on the premises because a used cigarette receptacle and a discarded cigarette butt were observed on the front sidewalk. Additional concerns noted were a diaper changing table without a sink within five feet and an expired bus registration. |
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?
- No facility injuries reported. No facility deaths reported.
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.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Montessori Learning Center LLC | Not given |
| Educational Enrichment Center De, LLC | Not given |
| Wilmington Friends School - Lower School | Not given |
| St. Mary Magdalen School | Not given |
| Linda Crist | Not given |
| Foulk Preschool (Foulk Road) This child care provider | Not given |
| YMCA of Delaware / Brandywine YMCA Branch | Not given |
| Faith Preschool and Child Care | Not given |
| The Claremont School | Not given |
| Concord Preschool and Child Care | Not given |
| Mary Reynolds | Not given |
| Janet Nagengast | 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
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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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This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.
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