Child care in Costa Mesa
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57 child care providers in Costa Mesa, California.
From the California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division: Child care centers, Family child care homes licensed for more than eight children and Facility evaluation and complaint investigation reports. The record lists 28,188 child care providers in California.
What California’s list coversNo small family homes
Child care centers, and family child care homes licensed for more than eight children: the files California’s Community Care Licensing Division publishes. Smaller family child care homes, for eight children or fewer, aren’t in those files, so they aren’t here yet.
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What the words on these cards mean7
- 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.
- Quality rating
- Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
- 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.
- 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.
- None on record
- The source lists nothing of this kind for the place, over the years its file covers. That is what the record holds, not proof that nothing ever happened. Source: How this site reads each source.
- Not published
- The source has no such field for this place. It isn’t a zero, and it isn’t a clean record. Source: How this site reads each source.
The list
- Day care center Page School of Costa Mesa Costa Mesa, California 92627 0citations in the last three yearsJan 312025the latest visit on record55children, its licensed capacity TypeDay Care CenterFindings, 3 years0Most seriousNot publishedLast inspectionJan 31, 2025Quality ratingNot published 2 visits on record, nothing cited.
- Infant center Page School of Costa Mesa Costa Mesa, California 92627 2citations in the last three yearsJan 312025the latest visit on record32children, its licensed capacity TypeInfant CenterFindings, 3 years2Most seriousNot publishedLast inspectionJan 31, 2025Quality ratingNot published 2 citations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2025.
- Family day care home Price, Patricia & Gahm, Gary Costa Mesa, California 92627 0citations in the last three yearsJun 82026the latest visit on record14children, its licensed capacity TypeFamily Day Care HomeFindings, 3 years0Most seriousNot publishedLast inspectionJun 8, 2026Quality ratingNot published 2 visits on record, nothing cited.
- Family day care home Ramirez De Hernandez,yadhira Costa Mesa, California 92626 On probation (California) 10citations in the last three yearsOct 142026the latest visit on record14children, its licensed capacity TypeFamily Day Care HomeFindings, 3 years10Most seriousNot publishedLast inspectionOct 14, 2026Quality ratingNot published 10 citations in 8 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026.
- Day care center Seaside Costa Mesa Preschool Costa Mesa, California 92626 3citations in the last three yearsMar 102026the latest visit on record70children, its licensed capacity TypeDay Care CenterFindings, 3 years3Most seriousNot publishedLast inspectionMar 10, 2026Quality ratingNot published 3 citations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026.
- Day care center St. Joachim School Costa Mesa, California 92627 3citations in the last three yearsOct 52026the latest visit on record22children, its licensed capacity TypeDay Care CenterFindings, 3 years3Most seriousNot publishedLast inspectionOct 5, 2026Quality ratingNot published 3 citations in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2024.
- Single licensed child care center Super Bees Academy Costa Mesa, California 92626 Noinspections on record in the last three yearsSep 32026the latest visit on record42children, its licensed capacity TypeSingle Licensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNo inspection in 3 yearsMost seriousNo inspection in 3 yearsLast inspectionSep 3, 2026Quality ratingNot published
- Day care center Susan Phillips Day School Costa Mesa, California 92627 1citation in the last three yearsOct 212025the latest visit on record21children, its licensed capacity TypeDay Care CenterFindings, 3 years1Most seriousNot publishedLast inspectionOct 21, 2025Quality ratingNot published 1 citation in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025.
- Day care center Waldorf School of Orange County Costa Mesa, California 92627 3citations in the last three yearsNov 182025the latest visit on record85children, its licensed capacity TypeDay Care CenterFindings, 3 years3Most seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNov 18, 2025Quality ratingNot published 3 citations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2025.
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California Department of Social Services, Child care centers and Family child care homes licensed for more than eight children. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated weekly.
California Department of Social Services, Facility evaluation and complaint investigation reports. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
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