Ashland Community Preschool
A child day center in Ashland, Virginia 23005
500 South Center Street, Ashland, Virginia 23005. (804) 798-0409.
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The short answer
- 2 deficiencies in the last three years
- May 12026 the latest visit on record
- 25 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?
10 inspections on record, the latest on May 1, 2026.
2 violations cited in the last three years.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated weekly.
When those deficiencies happened
2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2024. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2023 | Nov | Dec | ||||||||||
| 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 |
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Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each deficiency, in its source’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated weekly.
Dec 17, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-510-E
“Medication shall be given to a child only with written authorization from the parent. One medication for one child did not have written authorization from the parent and physician.”
May 10, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-510-P
“Based on medication review, the center failed to notify the parent that an expired medication needed to be picked up within 14 days of expiration. Evidence: An emergency medication expired 2/2024 and was not returned to the parent.”
Mar 15, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-160-C
“Based on a review of one staff record, the facility failed to have a subsequent communicable tuberculosis (TB) test or screening at least every two years from the date of the initial screening. Evidence: Staff A had a tuberculosis test that expired10/6/2022.”
All 10 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2026 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| May 10, 2024 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Mar 15, 2023 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Nov 16, 2022 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| May 24, 2022 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Feb 4, 2022 | Inspection | No violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Child Day Center: Two Year license, expires Mar 11, 2027.
- Ages: 2 years 9 months - 6 years 11 months.
- Capacity: 25 children.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated weekly.
Has Virginia acted against it?
- 0 complaint inspections on record.
- No complaint allegations published with findings.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations and Search for Child Day Care: each complaint’s page, with its allegations and findings. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who does the caring?
- Virginia doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.
Who owns it?
- Virginia’s search doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Virginia’s search doesn’t show a quality rating.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 59 child care providers in Hanover County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 11; this one had 2.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated weekly.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Ashland Community Preschool This child care provider | 2 |
| First Baptist Church of Ashland | 23 |
| Kiddie Kingdom, Inc. | 14 |
| Skipwith Academy @ Hanover (#38) | 37 |
| The Goddard School - Ashland | 16 |
| Primrose School of Atlee Commons | 18 |
| Harmony Vineyard Church | 8 |
| Bundle of Joy - Atlee | 47 |
| Right at School, LLC - Ashland | 12 |
| Right at School, LLC - Elmont | 0 |
| Montessori Kids Universe | 0 |
| Toddler Town, Inc. | 19 |
What the record doesn’t say
- Virginia doesn’t grade how serious a violation is, so no severity is shown.
- Virginia publishes a complaint’s allegations and findings only when its inspection found a violation and the records are linked.
- Virginia doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.
- A plan of correction sent late, or not at all, isn’t online: Virginia says to ask the inspector.
- Virginia’s pages show about the last five years of inspections; for older ones, Virginia says to contact the licensing inspector.
- Virginia says this information may not be accurate, up to date or complete, and shouldn’t be the only source in choosing care.
Sources
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Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page.
Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
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Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations.
Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
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Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each complaint’s page, with its allegations and findings.
Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Virginia Department of Education. Virginia’s own record is on legacy.dss.virginia.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.
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