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Pyle Child Development Center

A licensed child care center in Frankford, Delaware 19945

34314 Pyle Center Rd, Frankford, Delaware 19945. (302) 732-1443.

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 Nov 4, 2026.

The last 24 months 10 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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 Apr 22, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

10 violations cited in the last three years.

Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Nov 4, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

10 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

10 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 Nov 4, 2026. Updated daily.

Apr 22, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs application or personal data sheet, employee declaration signed and health appraisal with TB.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 14, 2026.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Once child needs parent permissions page. One child needs updated health appraisal.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 4, 2026.

  • Hazardous Materials

    “Ensure soap and water and sanitizing solution are available in all the classrooms. Infant room was missing soap and water and sanitizing solution.”

    Rule 45U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 22, 2026.

  • Outdoor Area

    “Ensure fall zones have at least 6 inches of material and extends 6 feet in all directions. Ensure gates exiting the playground are unlocked.”

    Rule 53U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 6, 2026.

  • Administration of Medication

    “Ensure medication is stored out of children’s reach.”

    Rule 63U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 22, 2026.

  • Infant and Toddler Care

    “Ensure daily logs are maintained for infants in care.”

    Rule 77U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 22, 2026.

Apr 14, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation

  • Outdoor Area

    “Ensure fall zones have at least 9 inches of material which extends at least six feet in all directions.”

    Rule 53U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 28, 2025.

Apr 3, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs a reference letter and health appraisal with TB results. Staff #2 needs an hour of health and safety training.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 2, 2024.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Child #2 needs day/hours of attendance, current health appraisal and up to date immunizations. Child #10 and Child #11 need blood lead screening results.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 27, 2024.

  • Lesson Plans

    “Ensure lesson plans contain weekly opportunities for special activities: food/healthy habits, science, music and sensory activities. The 3/4/5 classroom was missing these components.”

    Rule 74U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 12, 2024.

All 3 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 22, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations cited
Apr 14, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation cited
Apr 3, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child Care Center.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 5 years.
  • Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Delaware lists it as: Nonprofit.
  • Licence number 29079.
  • Capacity: 41 children.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Nov 4, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Delaware acted against it?

  • 1 complaint investigation in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: No Evidence to Substantiate (1).
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Nov 4, 2026. Updated daily.

On record, newest first
DateWhatDetail
Jul 1, 2026OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to SubstantiateThe Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on June 8, 2026, regarding not following the expulsion policy in the handbook. An investigation was conducted on June 15, 2026. There is no evidence to substantiate not following the termination policy in the handbook because according to administration, the child s care was terminated due to Purchase of Care not being renewed, and payment was over a week late, which follows the termination policy in the parent handbook.

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.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Nov 4, 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 Nov 4, 2026. Updated daily.

12 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Katherine CoulbournNot given
Irsd Early Learning Center Tots/Project VillageNot given
Rise & Shine Learning CenterNot given
C. Andrea HauckNot given
Samaida SprogellNot given
Pyle Child Development Center This child care providerNot given
Building BlocksNot given
Cozy Critters Child CareNot given
The Learning Center Preschool in Ocean View, LLCNot given
Jennifer A. SmithNot given
Lullaby Learning Center, Inc.Not given
Tops Childcare LLCNot 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 Nov 5, 2026.

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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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