Sandpiper Montessori
A child day center in Virginia Beach, Virginia 23456
2244 General Booth Boulevard, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23456. (757) 427-0494.
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The short answer
- 7 deficiencies in the last three years
- Mar 272026 the latest visit on record
- 50 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 Mar 27, 2026.
7 violations cited in the last three years.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated weekly.
When those deficiencies happened
7 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 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 | Nov |
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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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated weekly.
Mar 27, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-245-A
“Staff shall complete annually a minimum of 16 hours of training appropriate to the age of children in care. Staff 4 and staff 5 had less than 16 hours documented training in 2025/.”
Dec 15, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
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22.1-289-036-E
“No person specified in subsection A shall be involved in the day-to-day operations of the child day center, family day home, or family day system, or shall be alone with, in control of, or supervising one or more children, without first having completed any required background check. The background check obtained for staff 2 was obtained by another employing entity and not by the Licensee of this facility.”
Apr 1, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
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8VAC20-780-560-G
“When food is brought from home it shall be labeled with the date. Children’s lunches brought from home were not dated with the current date.”
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8VAC20-780-560-J
“Tables shall be sanitized before and after each use for feeding. Staff were not going to sanitize the tables after the first group of children ate lunch/before the tables were to be used for the second group of children until being reminded by the inspector.”
May 9, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-245-A
“Based upon review of staff records, the facility has not ensured that all staff complete at least 16 hours of training annually. Evidence: The record reviewed for staff 1 indicated that only 9.25 hours of annual training during the 2022/2023 year.”
Jan 24, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
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8VAC20-780-140-A
“Based upon review of children’s records and staff interview, the facility has not ensured that each child has a physical examination by or under the direction of a physician within 30 days of attending. Evidence; 1. The record provided for child 1 who began attending on 12/4/2023 did not include the results of a physical examination by a physician. 2. Staff 1 confirmed that the record for child 1 did not include the results of a physical examination.”
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8VAC20-780-140-B
“Based upon review of children’s records and staff interview, the facility has not ensured that the child’s physical examination was obtained within 12 months prior to attending. Evidence: 1. The physical examination in the record for child 2, 3 yrs and 8 months old, who began attending on 6/26/2023, was dated 5/27/2020 which was not within the 12 months prior to attending. 2. Staff 1 confirmed that the physical for child 2 was not obtained within 12 months prior to attending.”
Feb 22, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies
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8VAC20-780-280-B
“Based upon observation, the facility has not ensured that hazardous substances are kept in locked locations using safe locking methods that prevent access by children. Evidence: There was a container of spray disinfectant on a shelf in an unlocked staff restroom upstairs between the two children’s classrooms.”
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8VAC20-780-550-G
“Based upon review of records, the facility has not ensured that the documentation of emergency evacuation includes all required information. Evidence: the record for the evacuation drill conducted in January 2023 did not include the notification method and the time it took to evacuate.”
Jun 14, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies
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22VAC40-185-550-B
“Base upon review of the facility’s emergency preparedness plan and staff interview, the facility has not ensured that all procedural components required of the plan are included. Evidence: 1. The emergency preparedness plan had not been updated to include new Standard requirements such as emergency scenarios and continuity of operations. 2, Staff 1 acknowledged that the emergency preparedness plan had not been updated to include requirements in the new standards.”
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8VAC20-780-130-A
The inspectors’ words, 100 words
“Based upon review of children’s records and staff interview, the facility has not ensured that they have obtained documentation that each child has received the immunizations required by the State Board of Health before attending. Evidence: 1. The immunization record in the record of child 1 included a statement from the physician that the child’s immunization record is “not up to date”. Child 1 has been attending care since 5/4/2022. 2. Staff 1 acknowledged that the immunization record for child 1 stated that it was not up to date. Staff 1 stated she had not addressed this with the parent.”
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8VAC20-780-240-C
“Based upon review of staff records, the facility has not ensured that the orientation training of staff includes all required topics. Evidence: 1. The orientation training in the record of staff 3 did not include documentation that prevention of sudden infant death syndrome/safe sleep, prevention of shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma and the prevention of and response to emergencies due to food and other allergic reactions was covered. 2. Staff 1 acknowledged that the orientation training of staff 3 did not include all required topics.”
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8VAC20-780-510-P
The inspectors’ words, 113 words
“Based upon review of children’s medication and staff interview, the facility has not ensured that when an authorization for the administration of medication expires, the parent is notified that the medication must be picked up within 14 day or the parent must renew the authorization. Evidence: 1. There was Benadryl and AuviQ epinephrine stored for administration to child 6 in an emergency allergic reaction. The parent authorization for the administration of the medication expired on 6/18/2021 and had not been renewed. 2. Staff 1 acknowledged that the parent authorization for the administration of medication to child 6 was expired and that the medication was not returned to the parent or the authorization renewed.”
Feb 16, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-280-B
“based upon observation, the facility has not ensured that potentially hazardous substances are kept in locked places using safe locking methods that prevent access by children. Evidence: There was a pump container of antibacterial hand soap labeled “warning” and “keep our of reach of children” on the sink in the children’s bathroom.”
All 10 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2026 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Inspection | 2 violations cited |
| Sep 16, 2024 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| May 9, 2024 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Inspection | 2 violations cited |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Inspection | 2 violations cited |
| Jul 20, 2022 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Inspection | 4 violations cited |
| Feb 16, 2022 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
Is it licensed?
- Child Day Center: Two Year license, expires May 19, 2028.
- Ages: 2 years 6 months - 7 years 11 months.
- Capacity: 50 children.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page. Checked Nov 5, 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 Nov 5, 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 194 child care providers in the City of Virginia Beach, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 10; this one had 7.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated weekly.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Sandpiper Montessori This child care provider | 7 |
| Mrs. Mildred Grant | 9 |
| YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS - SALEM FAMILY CENTER | 53 |
| Karen Dalesandro | 0 |
| Salem United Methodist Church | 1 |
| Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church of Princess Anne | Not given |
| St. John the Apostle Catholic Church | Not given |
| Bullfrogs and Butterflies, Inc. | 5 |
| Courthouse Christian Preschool | 23 |
| LeafSpring School at Virginia Beach | 15 |
| Childtime Learning Center 1021 | 15 |
| Princess Anne Recreation Center Early Childhood Program | 6 |
| Primrose School of Virginia Beach South | 27 |
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 Nov 5, 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 Nov 5, 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
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This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.
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