Elijah Gate Christian Center
A religious exempt child day center in Leesburg, Virginia 20176
115 Harrison Street NE, Harrison Street Academy, Leesburg, Virginia 20176. (571) 882-0188.
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The short answer
- 8 deficiencies in the last three years
- Feb 92026 the latest visit on record
- 55 children, its capacity in the state’s list
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?
5 inspections on record, the latest on Feb 9, 2026.
8 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
8 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 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.
Feb 9, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies
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Repeat Violation The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center is required to ensure that all areas of the premises accessible to children are free of obvious injury hazards, including providing and maintaining sand or other cushioning material under playground equipment.
“In the inside play area, 4 vents on the floor were not attached to the floor creating a tripping hazard.”
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The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center must obtain a completed national criminal background check prior to the employee’s first day of employment.
“Staff #3, did not have a completed national criminal background check prior to the employees first day of employment. It was received 5 days after the first day of their employment.”
Feb 26, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies
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The following aspects of the child day center’s operations are described in a written statement provided to the parents or guardians of the children in the center and made available to the general public: physical facilities, enrollment capacity, food services, health requirements for the staff, and public liability insurance.
“The written statement was not provided to the parents of Child #1 who has been enrolled approximately 1 month and 2 weeks.”
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The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center is required to do a daily simple health screening and exclusion of sick children by a person trained to perform such screenings.
“A staff member stated they have parents sign a health questionnaire for the child prior to arrival and check the children at the door, but they have not been formally trained.”
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The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center is required to ensure that all areas of the premises accessible to children are free of obvious injury hazards, including providing and maintaining sand or other cushioning material under playground equipment.
“The center’s playground equipment had four separate areas with fall zones and did not maintain cushioning material under the playground equipment. The Three Year Old Classroom had Christmas lights hanging down around the windows in reach of children. The Four Year Old Classroom had 2 extensions cords plugged in to the other and were creating a tripping hazard and a another cord for a heater was also creating a tripping hazard.”
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The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center is required to have employees undergo a background check every five years.
“The most recent central registry check was overdue by 1 year and 5 months and the Sworn Disclosure Statement was overdue by approximately 10 months for Staff #5.”
Jan 29, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
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22.1-289.035-B-2
“Based on review of three staff records, the Religiously Exempt Child Day Center did not have the fingerprint results prior to the 1st day of employment for one staff. Evidence: 1. Staff #2 (start date 5/25/2022) had fingerprint results dated 6/03/2022.”
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22.1-289.035-B-4
The inspectors’ words, 98 words
“Based on review of three staff records, the Religiously Exempt Child Day Center did not obtain a copy of the results of a criminal history record information check or sex offender registry check from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding five years. Evidence: 1. Staff #2(start date 5/25/2022) and Staff #3 (start date 12/06/2021) lived in other states in the last 5 years and did not have the sex offender registry check for any of the States and also did not have the criminal history check for Nebraska or Texas for Staff #3.”
All 5 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 2026 | Inspection | 2 violations cited |
| Feb 26, 2025 | Inspection | 4 violations cited |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Inspection | 2 violations cited |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Inspection | No violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Religious Exempt Child Day Center: Exempt from licensure, expires Feb 22, 2027.
- Ages: 2 years - 6 years 11 months.
- Capacity: 55 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 304 child care providers in Loudoun County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 8; this one had 8.
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 |
|---|---|
| Elijah Gate Christian Center This child care provider | 8 |
| St. James Episcopal Church | 2 |
| Leesburg Presbyterian Church | 1 |
| Douglass Community Center | 2 |
| Lucketts Community Center | 3 |
| Leesburg United Methodist Church | 0 |
| Holy Trinity Lutheran Church | 0 |
| Montessori School of Leesburg | 10 |
| Zainab Tariq | 19 |
| Jamie White | 1 |
| Farhana Abid | 9 |
| Fatemeh Ranjbarkohan | 24 |
| Winwood Children’s Center- 856 | 28 |
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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