Alpha Kids Academy LLC · Preschool, Menlo Park
Alpha Kids Academy LLC was a licensed child care center in Menlo Park, CA, licensed for up to 38 children. Its license closed around January 2026. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 3 times and investigated 3 complaints, 2 substantiated, and issued 3 citations, 0 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
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Based on LPA’s interviews, the Licensee did not comply with the above by leaving a child unsupervised in the facility’s outdoor play area. This posed a potential risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of persons in care. 8 Licensee shall submit a meeting memo that contains information regarding transition procedures and is signed by all staff present to LPA via email by set due date of 2/7/2025.
Based on interviews and observations made children are placed in high chairs while not actively eating for extended times as well as the facility uses the chairs for activities (arts and crafts projects) other than feeding. This poses a potential health and safety risk to children in care.
Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above as there is no water testing has been done in the facility by January 2023 and there is no waiver approved to waive getting tested which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Complaint investigations
Facility staff used a chair to restrain child in care
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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 414004671 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.