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Newark Methodist Preschool

A licensed child care center in Newark, Delaware 19711

69 East Main Street, Newark, Delaware 19711. (302) 368-1754.

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 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. 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?

4 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Dec 4, 2025; 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 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

15 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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.

Dec 4, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations

  • Personnel Files

    The inspectors’ words, 106 words

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #3 needs PD plan, Staff #13 needs OCCL H/S 7 hour training, 2 references, Staff #5 needs updated eligibility, Staff #6 needs OCCL H/S 7 hour training, 1 reference, health appraisal w/TB, Staff #7 needs health appraisal w/TB, Staff #8 needs 3 references, Staff #10 needs abuse form signed, CPR/FA, Staff #11 needs OCCL H/S 7 hour training, health appraisal w/TB, Staff #12 needs abuse form signed. 1.1.26 Staff #1 needs 2 training hours. Staff #2 needs 1 training hour. Staff #3 needs 9 training hours, including H/S. Staff #4 needs 16 training hours. Staff #5 needs 7 training hours.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 28, 2026.

  • Indoor Space

    “Ensure indoor space is safe. Rug in Rm #12 needs to be replaced - tripping hazard.”

    Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Administration of Medication

    “Ensure MAR forms are completed. Child #2 needs MAR form.”

    Rule 63U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Lesson Plans

    “Ensure lesson plans are complete. Rm #217 needs to include weekly food/healthy habits.”

    Rule 74U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Activity Schedule

    “Ensure schedules are posted. Rm #12 needs a posted schedule.”

    Rule 76U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 7, 2026.

Jan 1, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure annual training hours are complete.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 14, 2025.

Dec 6, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Child #9 needs screen time permission signed.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 14, 2025.

  • Hazardous Materials

    “Ensure hazardous materials are stored and inaccessible to children. Classroom #12 had an unlocked cabinet containing chemicals for fish tank; remove or install lock.”

    Rule 45U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 14, 2025.

  • Sanitation

    “Ensure classrooms have soap and water and sanitizer available and labeled. Classrooms #106, #216 need soap and water spray.”

    Rule 58U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 14, 2025.

  • Administration of Medication

    “Ensure medication is not expired. Classroom #217 has an expired Epi-Pen; send home and replace with new.”

    Rule 63U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 14, 2025.

Dec 4, 2023: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations

  • General Qualifications

    “Current fingerprint eligibility is needed for the center applicant.”

    Rule 28U.

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. References are needed for two staff. OCCL health and safety training is needed for one staff.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 5, 2024.

  • Staff Attendance

    “Ensure staff attendance is accurate. At the time of the visit, one staff member did not sign out of room 211 and one staff did not sign out of room 217.”

    Rule 36U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 4, 2023.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. A Medication Administration record and a current health appraisal with immunizations is needed for one child.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 3, 2024.

  • Lesson Plans

    “Ensure lesson plans contain weekly food exploration/ healthy habit. Updated lesson plans are needed for room 211 and 217.”

    Rule 74U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 3, 2024.

All 4 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Dec 4, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations cited
Jan 1, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation cited
Dec 6, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations cited
Dec 4, 2023Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child Care Center.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 2 years through 5 years.
  • Special conditions, in Delaware’s words: Agreement of Understanding.
  • Licence number 489654.
  • Capacity: 165 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?

  • 2024: 1 facility injury. 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.

13 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Newark Methodist Preschool This child care providerNot given
Lil’ Einsteins Learning Academy IINot given
Blossom & Bloom Learning CenterNot given
Almost Home Day CareNot given
The Goddard School / NewarkNot given
Las Americas Aspira AcademyNot given
Early Childhood Development CenterNot given
Great New Beginnings of NewarkNot given
Holy Angels SchoolNot given
The Independence SchoolNot given
Dream Haven Learning CenterNot given
Rahma KhanNot given
Newark Nature SchoolNot 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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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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