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Appletree Child Development Center

A child care center in Raleigh, North Carolina 27610

4604 Poole Rd, Raleigh, North Carolina 27610. (919) 255-3434.

  • administrative action in the last three years
North Carolina’s own record, on ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov

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The short answer

The last 24 months 6 violations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
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.
Quality rating
Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
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?

18 DCDEE visits in the last three years, the latest on Aug 11, 2026.

6 violations cited in the last three years, 6 of them marked corrected.

Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

6 violations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 3, 2026.

6 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:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 11, 2026: unannounced1 violation

  • A safe indoor and outdoor environment was not provided for the children.

    “Rubberized playground surfacing is wearing away on the preschool playground causing a tripping hazard.”

    Rule A safe indoor and outdoor environment was not provided for the children.. Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Aug 25, 2026. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

Jul 15, 2025: unannounced1 violation

  • Each child was not attended to in a nurturing and appropriate manner, or in keeping with the child’s developmental needs.

    “While observing video footage from June 26, 2025, I did observe a teacher put her hand on a child’s head and push the child back into the chair the child was sitting on.”

    Rule Each child was not attended to in a nurturing and appropriate manner, or in keeping with the child's developmental needs.. Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Jul 28, 2025. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

Aug 19, 2024: unannounced1 violation

  • Children were not adequately supervised at all times.

    “A three year old child was left outside on the playground unattended for approximately fifteen minutes.”

    Rule Children were not adequately supervised at all times.. Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Sep 6, 2024. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

May 31, 2024: unannounced3 violations

  • A child was restrained as a form of discipline and the child’s safety or the safety of others was not at risk.

    “The teachers in Infant room 1 have been observed buckling infants in a chair and putting infants in a highchair or bouncy seat when they do not want to address the needs of the infant or if the infant is behaving in a manner they do not want to deal with.”

    Rule A child was restrained as a form of discipline and the child's safety or the safety of others was not at risk.. Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Jun 12, 2024. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

  • Children were not adequately supervised at all times.

    “An infant child crawled out of the infant classroom and into the hallway and was unsupervised by facility staff for 35 seconds.”

    Rule Children were not adequately supervised at all times.. Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Jun 12, 2024. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

  • Each child was not attended to in a nurturing and appropriate manner, or in keeping with the child’s developmental needs.

    “Staff members have observed the staff in Infant room 1 using an inappropriate tone when addressing the infants and using inappropriate redirection tactics when managing difficult behaviors involving the infants. Teachers in Infant room 1 have been observed not meeting the infants’ developmental needs when they are crying or upset.”

    Rule Each child was not attended to in a nurturing and appropriate manner, or in keeping with the child's developmental needs.. Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Jun 12, 2024. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

All 18 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 11, 2026Unannounced visit1 violation cited
Jan 28, 2026Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Sep 26, 2025Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Aug 18, 2025Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Aug 12, 2025Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Jul 23, 2025Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Jul 15, 2025Unannounced visit1 violation cited
Feb 26, 2025Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Nov 19, 2024Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Oct 8, 2024Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Oct 8, 2024Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Aug 28, 2024Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Aug 28, 2024Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Aug 19, 2024Unannounced visit1 violation cited
Jul 24, 2024Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Jun 10, 2024Unannounced visitNo violations cited
May 31, 2024Unannounced visit3 violations cited
May 14, 2024Announced visitNo violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Child Care Center, holding a Five Star Center License since Mar 4, 2025.
  • Licensed for 172 children, ages 0 through 12.
  • Enrolled in North Carolina’s subsidized child care program.
  • North Carolina’s licence number: 92002330.
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

Has North Carolina acted against it?

  • DCDEE says it has issued one or more administrative actions for this facility in the past three years; North Carolina’s page doesn’t say what they were, and shows one only after its 30-day appeal period.
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • North Carolina’s page gives a staff-to-child ratio policy as the provider reports it, unverified by DCDEE, so it isn’t shown.

Who owns it?

  • Owner, as North Carolina lists it: Appletree Child Development Center, Inc..
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

How is it rated?

  • Star Rated License: 5 stars of five.
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 470 child care providers in Wake County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 6.
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 470 in Wake County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Appletree Child Development Center This child care provider6
Appletree Day Care II0
Ella’s Private Day Care1
Prince’s and Princess’s Daycare Inc.19
S. & R. Home Day Care9
Priceless Child Care, Inc.9
Morning Star Child Care Learning Center16
Jo’s Daycare10
Academically Based Child0
Appletree Day Care #37
Ladem’s Preschool3
Pamela’s Daycare Center4
Village at Work Home Child Care Center22

What the record doesn’t say

  • North Carolina doesn’t show a visit summary tied to an open child maltreatment investigation while the case is active, and shows an administrative action only after its 30-day appeal period, without saying what it was.
  • DCDEE’s descriptions of violations are shown in its own words; a description that names or may name a person isn’t shown. Visit summaries, the consultants’ full reports, aren’t read.
  • North Carolina’s page lists the provider’s own features (transport, ratios) as furnished by the provider and unverified by DCDEE, so they aren’t shown.

Sources

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE). North Carolina’s own record is on ncchildcare.ncdhhs.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 3, 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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