A Good Time Out

3400 Calloway Drive, Suite 501, Bakersfield, CA 93312 · Kern County

ClosedChild care center (preschool)

This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of Dec 19, 2025. Its state inspection history is shown below.

A Good Time Out was a licensed child care center in Bakersfield, CA, licensed for up to 59 children. Its license closed around December 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 3 times and investigated 2 complaints, 0 substantiated, and issued 2 citations, 1 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

1Type A citations

1Type B citations

3Inspections

0 of 2Complaints substantiated

Every state visit

Citation issuedNo citationTop row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits

What inspectors cited most

Building & playground safety1

Health & medication1

Citations, newest first

Type BJan 18, 2023Case management visit (lead testing/exceedance)Building & playground safety

Lead in drinking water §101700.3(b)(1)

record review. 1 Per Director Bennett, authorized representatives will be notified of the lead exceedance and testing results. Outlet E was made inoperable during this inspection. Director stated they will retest and/or Appeal the citation and/or repair outlet E. One (labeled E) outlet, in the facility contained lead exceedance greater than 5.5 ppb. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Plan of correction due Feb 17, 2023

Type AOct 14, 2021InspectionHealth & medication

Staff immunizations §1596.7995(a)(1)(a)(1)

Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in two out of eight staff files which poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Plan of correction due Oct 28, 2021

Complaint investigations

Not substantiatedFeb 17, 2022Complaint investigationreceived Dec 10, 2021

The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.

Not substantiatedDec 15, 2021Complaint investigationreceived Sep 22, 2021

The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.

About this center

Licensed capacity59 children

License typeChild care center (preschool)

License statusClosed

Licensed sinceOct 20, 2006

ClosedDec 19, 2025

LicenseeSherman, Melanie/sherman, Karen

Last administratorSherman, Melanie/karen

State facility #153808307

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Citations are quoted from California Department of Social Services inspection and complaint reports. Type A citations are the state’s most serious category (an immediate risk to children’s health, safety or personal rights); Type B citations are a potential risk. A citation is a finding about one rule, not a judgment about a center overall. Complaint allegations appear here only when the state substantiated them.

To read the full state reports, search facility number 153808307 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.