Rainbow Riders Childcare Center - CRC Site
A child day center in Blacksburg, Virginia 24060
1800 Research Center Drive, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060. (540) 552-3636.
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The short answer
- 3 deficiencies in the last three years
- Jul 282026 the latest visit on record
- 230 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?
22 inspections on record, the latest on Jul 28, 2026.
3 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
3 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. 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.
Jun 26, 2026: complaint inspection1 deficiency
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Behavioral guidance shall be constructive in nature, age and stage appropriate, and shall be intended to redirect children to appropriate behavior and resolve conflicts.
“On 06/23/26, within a 10-minute window, staff #1 took child #1 (4 years old) into the bathroom several times and held the child’s shoulders and arms from behind while splashing water into the child’s mouth and face because the child was using “potty” words. The child was heard crying, screaming “no” and “get off of me”, during the incidents. The response from staff #1 was not constructive or age and stage appropriate.”
Nov 24, 2025: complaint inspection1 deficiency
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Behavioral guidance shall be constructive in nature, age and stage appropriate, and shall be intended to redirect children to appropriate behavior and resolve conflicts.
“On 11/13/25 staff #1 did not provide constructive behavioral guidance to child #1 when trying to intervene during an incident between child #1 and another child. Staff #1 grabbed child #1 by the back of his overalls lifting him slightly and moving him away from the incident.”
Jul 30, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-280-B
“Hazardous substances such as cleaning materials, insecticides, and pesticides shall be kept in a locked place using a safe locking method that prevents access by children. In the small kitchen, above the sink, in the school aged area there were numerous cleaning products in the unlocked cabinet and the cabinet was accessible to the children.”
Sep 19, 2022: complaint inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-400-A
The inspectors’ words, 96 words
“Based on discussions with administration and review of classroom video the program failed to maintain compliance with this standard as required on 9/14/22 related to encouraging the children in decision making. Evidence: Staff #1 was seen on video nudging child #1 in the back 2 separate times on 9-14-22 while trying to get her to proceed to the potty after her diaper was removed. The nudges did not appear to be forceful, and the child did not react to the nudges. Staff #1 did not assist the child adequately in decision making skills during this incident.”
Jan 19, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies
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22.1-289.035-B-4
“Based on record review and interview, the center failed to have an out of state sex offender registry completed for each state an individual has resided in the past 5 years prior to the first day of employment. Evidence: 1. Staff # 1 (Date of hire: 09/27/2021) did not have an out of state sexual offender registry completed prior to employment. 2. Staff stated there had been a transition in staff duties and the documentation is not able to be found.”
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8VAC20-780-140-A
“Based on record review, the center failed to have a physical exam within 30 days of after the first date of attendance. evidence: 1. Child # 5 was enrolled 11/08/21 (DOB 10/09/20) and there is no physical on file.”
All 22 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2026 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Complaint inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Complaint inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Jan 16, 2025 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Jan 16, 2025 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Jul 13, 2023 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Jul 13, 2023 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Nov 14, 2022 | Complaint inspection | No violations cited |
| Sep 19, 2022 | Complaint inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Inspection | 2 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Child Day Center: Two Year license, expires Feb 16, 2028.
- A current subsidy provider.
- Ages: 1 month - 12 years 11 months.
- Capacity: 230 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?
- 4 complaint inspections on record.
- 3 complaint allegations published with Virginia’s findings, 3 of them found valid.
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.
| Date | What | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2026 | Complaint | Allegation: Physical Abuse/Neglect. Virginia’s finding: Reported/Valid. |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Complaint | Allegation: Activities. Virginia’s finding: Reported/Valid. |
| Sep 19, 2022 | Complaint | Allegation: Activities. Virginia’s finding: Reported/Valid. |
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 40 child care providers in Montgomery County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 3.
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 |
|---|---|
| Rainbow Riders Childcare Center - CRC Site This child care provider | 3 |
| Tall Oaks Montessori School | 1 |
| New River Community Action-Blacksburg | 0 |
| Ms. Victoria Sowers | 6 |
| Rainbow Riders Childcare Center-Knollwood Site | 7 |
| The Children’s Garden Primary School | 2 |
| Valley Interfaith Child Care Center, Inc. | 0 |
| St. Michael Lutheran Church | 0 |
| Blacksburg Presbyterian Church | 0 |
| MINE, ME & US Montessori School | 1 |
| Rainbow Riders Childcare Center at St. Michael Lutheran Church | 1 |
| The Children’s Nest | 5 |
| Little Hokie Hangout | 5 |
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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