Little Wonders Early Childhood Development Center
A day care center in Niagara Falls, New York 14305
4661 Porter Road, Niagara Falls, New York 14305. (716) 297-6421.
What New York’s list coversOutside New York City
Programs New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services licenses or registers outside New York City, each county added once it is read in full. Programs in the city’s five boroughs, including the day care centers its Health Department regulates, aren’t here yet.
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The short answer
Record last released by New York State Office of Children and Family Services on Oct 30, 2026.
- 2 violations in the last three years
- Aug 42026 the latest visit on record
- 89 children, its licensed capacity
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?
14 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Aug 4, 2026.
2 violations cited in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
2 violations in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2024. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.
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| 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.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
Jan 31, 2024: fire Safety - Alternate Year2 violations
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The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: documentation from service personnel qualified to perform fire suppression systems maintenance, repair and testing showing that fire suppression equipment and systems have been tested and maintained during the current license period in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Fire and Building Code of New York State;
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The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: documentation from the local government authority having jurisdiction for determining compliance with the Fire and Building Code of New York State showing that the facility has been inspected and approved once every 12 months during the current license period for compliance with the applicable fire safety provisions of the Fire and Building Code of New York State;
All 14 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | Technical Assistance | No violations found |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 17, 2025 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Aug 5, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| May 23, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Self Reported Serious Incident | No violations found |
| Oct 11, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | 2 violations cited |
| Jan 5, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Feb 19, 2013.
- School district: Niagara Falls.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 16 Infants, 22 Toddlers, 11 Preschoolers and 40 School-Aged Children.
- Approved by New York to give medication.
- Licence 542562, issued Feb 19, 2023, expires Feb 18, 2027.
- Capacity: 89 children.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
Has New York acted against it?
- No complaints in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
Who does the caring?
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual programs.
Who owns it?
- New York’s open data doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Doesn’t take part in QUALITYstarsNY, New York’s quality rating program.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 101 child care providers in Niagara County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 2.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Yorio, Brenda | 2 |
| Niagara Falls Housing Authority | 12 |
| Niagara Falls Boys and Girls Club | 7 |
| Niagara Falls Boys and Girls Club | 15 |
| Little Wonders Early Childhood Development Center This child care provider | 2 |
| Miss Kara’s Daycare | 1 |
| Linda’s Looney Tunes Playhouse Day Care | 12 |
| Every Little Step Home Daycare | 5 |
| NENE’S DAYCARE, LLC | 1 |
| Niagara Falls Boys and Girls Club | 10 |
| Niagara Falls Boys and Girls Club | 23 |
| Atlantis School for Gifted Youngsters | 0 |
What the record doesn’t say
- New York doesn’t grade violations by severity, so read what was cited.
- New York’s records give the regulation behind each violation, not what the inspector saw.
- New York’s program pages cover four calendar years; this page shows the last three years.
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual programs.
Sources
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs (cb42-qumz).
Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history.
Checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: New York State Office of Children and Family Services. New York’s own record is on hs.ocfs.ny.gov. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Oct 30, 2026.
From the provider
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Replies
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