Appleseeds Academy Inc · Child Care Center, South Lake Tahoe
Appleseeds Academy Inc is a licensed child care center in South Lake Tahoe, CA, licensed for up to 32 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2026. No visit in that period produced a citation, which puts it among the 34% of ranked California centers with no citations. It has too few inspections so far for a statewide comparison.
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About this center
39 funded places · Office of Head Start · Who qualifies · California Head Start sites
Common questions
Has Appleseeds Academy Inc had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
How much does Appleseeds Academy Inc cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Appleseeds Academy Inc for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in El Dorado County, which includes South Lake Tahoe, was $1,400 a month for infants (about $1,770 today), $964 a month for preschoolers (about $1,220 today) and $797 a month for school-age children (about $1,010 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey. See what daycare costs across California, and how a dependent care FSA or the child care tax credits lower it.
Is Appleseeds Academy Inc a Head Start program?
The federal Office of Head Start lists a Head Start site at this address: Al Tahoe, run by El Dorado County Office of Education, with 39 funded places. Head Start is free for eligible families; call the program to ask about openings and eligibility.
Who runs Appleseeds Academy Inc?
The licensee is Appleseeds Academy Inc, and the administrator listed with the state is Ferreira Leigh-Allen.
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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 093628065 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 16, 2026.
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