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Abc Kids Academy

A licensed child care center in Newark, Delaware 19711

1098 Elkton Road, Newark, Delaware 19711. (302) 366-8537.

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 16 violations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

4 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Sep 28, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

16 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

16 violations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

16 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.

Sep 28, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations

  • Staff Qualifications

    “Ensure staff members have DEEDS certificate on file/issued before operating in the role. A staff member in the Infant Room was by themselves with an ECI DEEDS Certificate. This was corrected immediately.”

    Rule 24U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 28, 2026.

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs a Health Appraisal with a TB Screener and OCCL Health and Safety training course.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 12, 2026.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Ensure there is always an emergency supply of water available.”

    Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 12, 2026.

Sep 24, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations

  • Positive Behavior Management

    “Make available the programs Positive Behavior Policy in a public area (front lobby). Send documented evidence to OCCL.”

    Rule 20U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 15, 2025.

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs Administration of Medication, Staff #2 needs Health Appraisal, TB Screener. Staff #3 needs CPR/First Aid. Staff #4 needs 1 hour of PD training. Staff #5 needs Administration of Medication. Staff #7 needs CPR/First Aid”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 15, 2025.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Child #1 needs a Health Appraisal, Current Immunizations, Blood Lead.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 15, 2025.

  • Indoor Space

    “-Replace ceiling tiles in the three’s and the school aged classroom. - Patch the exposed dry wall spots in the infant classroom (left side) - Remove the carpets in the pre-k classroom (corners are rolling up and fraying)”

    Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 15, 2025.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Post the OCCL approved emergency plan in a visible space. Conduct fire drill for September and submit the evacuation log to OCCL.”

    Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 15, 2025.

Sep 13, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations

  • Child Files

    “Ensure children’s files are complete. Child #3 needs a Developmental Screener. Child #5 needs a Blood Lead Screener, Developmental Screener, and Mat Permission.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 10, 2024.

  • Heating and Cooling

    “Ensure that all ceiling vents are cleaned and free from dust build up.”

    Rule 48U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 8, 2024.

  • Indoor Space

    “Ensure that all surface are cleanable and in good repair. The walls in the front preschool classroom need to be repaired and repainted.”

    Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 8, 2024.

  • Outdoor Area

    “Repair the section of fence on the playground where the slats are separating.”

    Rule 53U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 8, 2024.

May 24, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Health & Safety training is needed for one staff. A job description is needed for one staff. An adult abuse registry check is needed for one staff. A current health appraisal with TB is needed for one staff. A release of employment history with service letters is needed for one staff.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jun 4, 2024.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. A health appraisal with immunizations is needed for six children. Blood lead testing results are needed for one child.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jun 4, 2024.

  • Indoor Space

    “Remove peeling tape from the floor in the School-age room and the 4’s/5’s room.”

    Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jun 5, 2024.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Obtain an adequate emergency food supply.”

    Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jun 5, 2024.

All 4 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 28, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations cited
Sep 24, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations cited
Sep 13, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations cited
May 24, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review4 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 887336.
  • Capacity: 101 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?

  • No facility injuries reported. 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
Abc Kids Academy 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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