Hearth Record

Schoharie County Child Development Council, Inc.

A day care center in Middleburgh, New York 12122

245 Main Street, Middleburgh, New York 12122. (518) 234-7521.

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.

New York’s own record, on hs.ocfs.ny.gov

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The short answer

Record last released by New York State Office of Children and Family Services on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 12 violations in 7 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?

15 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Sep 24, 2026.

12 violations cited in the last three years.

Source:

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

12 violations in 7 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

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

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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:

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 24, 2026: self-Report1 violation
  • Staff must take steps to prevent a child’s exposure to the foods to which the child is allergic.

    Rule 418-1.12(an).

Oct 23, 2025: self-Report1 violation
  • for 3-year-old children: there must be one teacher for every seven children;

    Rule 418-1.8(k)(4)(i).

May 12, 2025: complaint investigation1 violation
  • The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident,

    Rule 418-1.15(b)(14)(ii). From a complaint.

Apr 8, 2025: complaint investigation1 violation
  • Information relating to an individual child is confidential and cannot be disclosed without written parental permission to anyone other than the Office, its designees or other persons authorized by law.

    Rule 418-1.15(b)(6)(i). From a complaint.

Feb 7, 2025: complaint investigation3 violations
  • Child care center staff must personally make, or cause to be made, an immediate report to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment by telephone, followed by a written report within 48 hours, in the form and manner prescribed by the Office, to the child protective service of the social services district in the county in which the child resides.

    Rule 418-1.10(c)(1). From a complaint.

  • The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident,

    Rule 418-1.15(b)(14)(ii). From a complaint.

  • The staff and volunteers must be in good health and be of good character and habits.

    Rule 418-1.15(b)(4). From a complaint.

Feb 3, 2025: annual Unannounced1 violation
  • Protective caps, covers or permanently installed obstructive devices must be used on all electrical outlets that are accessible to children.

    Rule 418-1.5(y). Corrected during the inspection.

Nov 19, 2024: complaint investigation3 violations
  • The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident,

    Rule 418-1.15(b)(14)(ii). From a complaint.

  • Physical intervention is permitted. Physical intervention is the act of using bodily contact as a short-term immediate response to prevent children from incurring substantial or serious injury to themselves or injuring others. It may involve: picking a child up and moving him or her away from danger or conflict, holding the child’s hands or gently touching the body to direct their movement, rocking a child to soothe them, blocking a child’s path when they are about to injure themselves or others or destroy property. This technique allows the child to regain self-control as quickly and safely as possible. A consultation with a child’s parent is required if the child is not receptive to physical intervention.

    Rule 418-1.9(i). From a complaint.

  • Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited.

    Rule 418-1.9(m). From a complaint.

Sep 30, 2024: complaint investigation1 violation
  • for 3-year-old children: there must be one teacher for every seven children;

    Rule 418-1.8(k)(4)(i). From a complaint.

All 20 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 24, 2026Self-Report1 violation cited
Sep 21, 2026Self-ReportNo violations found
Apr 15, 2026MonitoringNo violations found
Mar 2, 2026Self-ReportNo violations found
Jan 14, 2026Annual UnannouncedNo violations found
Dec 12, 2025Self-ReportNo violations found
Oct 23, 2025Self-Report1 violation cited
Oct 21, 2025MonitoringNo violations found
Sep 11, 2025Fire Safety - RenewalNo violations found
Aug 28, 2025Application - RenewalNo violations found
May 12, 2025ComplaintComplaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited
Apr 8, 2025ComplaintComplaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited
Feb 7, 2025ComplaintComplaint (Substantiated); 3 violations cited
Feb 3, 2025Annual Unannounced1 violation cited
Dec 13, 2024MonitoringNo violations found
Nov 19, 2024ComplaintComplaint (Substantiated); 3 violations cited
Sep 30, 2024ComplaintComplaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited
Sep 25, 2024Fire Safety - OtherNo violations found
Apr 16, 2024Annual UnannouncedNo violations found
Nov 1, 2023Annual UnannouncedNo violations found

Is it licensed?

  • Day Care Center, open since Sep 29, 2015.
  • School district: Middleburgh.
  • Capacity, in New York’s words: 40 Preschoolers.
  • Approved by New York to give medication.
  • Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
  • Licence 748434, issued Sep 29, 2025, expires Sep 28, 2029.
Source:

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Has New York acted against it?

  • 5 complaints in the last three years. New York’s status for each: Complaint (Substantiated) (5).
Source:

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

On record, newest first
DateWhatDetail
May 12, 2025Complaint (Substantiated)New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated).
Apr 8, 2025Complaint (Substantiated)New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated).
Feb 7, 2025Complaint (Substantiated)New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated).
Nov 19, 2024Complaint (Substantiated)New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated).
Sep 30, 2024Complaint (Substantiated)New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated).

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.
Source:

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 17 child care providers in Schoharie County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 12.
Source:

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 17 in Schoharie County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Mercer, Raelyn2
Schoharie County Child Development Council, Inc. This child care provider12
Schoharie River Center, Inc.3
Schoharie County Child Development Council, Inc.13
Cobleskill Campus Child Care Center, Inc.33
Schoharie County Child Development Council, Inc.2
Chamberlain, Victoria2
Kelly, Heather3
Whispering Pines Pre-School, Inc.5
KIM’S CHILD CARE LLC9
Tiny Toes Childcare LLC0
Countryside Kids Childcare5

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

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.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.

From the provider

The public record above comes first. Anything the provider adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.

Replies

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Paid listing

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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.

From the homeNone yet. Replies and paid listings aren’t open, and when they open they will sit here, below the record.

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