Community Preschool, Inc.
A child day center in Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801
70 South High Street, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801. (540) 433-7974.
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The short answer
- 1 deficiency in the last three years
- Oct 72026 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?
11 inspections on record, the latest on Oct 7, 2026.
1 violation 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
1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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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| 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.
Mar 13, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-510-F
“Based on interview and review of documentation, the center failed to ensure that the medication authorization is available to staff during the entire time it is effective. Evidence: 1. Child #6 had an epinephrine pen and an allergy action plan on site. The allergy action form indication that the epinephrine pen was effective at the time of the inspection. There was no medication authorization. 2. Staff #1 confirmed there was no medication authorization.”
Sep 28, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies
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8VAC20-780-330-B
“Based on observation and interview, the center failed to ensure that resilient surfacing complied with the minimum safety standards of 6 inches for wood chip mulching. Evidence: 1. Less than 2 inches of wood chip mulch was observed in the fall zones around the climbing structures on the playground. 2. Staff #1 confirmed there was not 6 inches of wood chip mulch around the climbing structures.”
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8VAC20-780-500-A
“Based on observation and interview, the center failed to ensure that children’s hands were washed with soap and running water or disposable wipes after eating a snack. 1. 6 children were observed to not wash hands after eating snacks. 2. Staff #1 and #2 confirmed that the children did not wash their hands after eating snacks.”
Apr 22, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
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Based on measurements taken, there was not the required six inches of resilient surfacing in two areas around one piece of play equipment.
“Evidence: 1. In the fall zone of the large climbing structure the mulch measured to be approximately 3 to 4 inches in front of the slide and 2 to 3 inches in front of the ramp.”
All 11 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Mar 13, 2024 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Sep 18, 2023 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Inspection | 2 violations cited |
| Apr 22, 2022 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Inspection | No violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Child Day Center: Two Year license, expires Nov 5, 2026.
- Ages: 2 years 11 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 29 child care providers in the City of Harrisonburg, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 1.
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 |
|---|---|
| Learning Paths Academy | 37 |
| City of Harrisonburg | 8 |
| Dominion Educational Ministries, Inc. | 1 |
| Harrisonburg Baptist Church | 0 |
| Community Preschool, Inc. This child care provider | 1 |
| Woodland Montessori School | 2 |
| Vicki Lucas | 0 |
| Tara Koontz | 3 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Harrisonburg andRockingham County-Bluestone | 2 |
| Boys&Girls Club of Harrisonburg andRockinghamCounty-Stone Spring | 12 |
| Brandi Dacko | Not given |
| Shenandoah Valley Child Development Center | 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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