Bright Future Preschool Academe · Preschool, Norwalk
Bright Future Preschool Academe was a licensed child care center in Norwalk, CA, licensed for up to 30 children. Its license closed around July 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 2 times and investigated 3 complaints, 2 substantiated, and issued 10 citations, 1 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
Inspection history
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Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. Current space is 16.3 ft by 8.5 ft which is not sufficient for the children enrolled in care.
Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. Current space is 16.3 ft by 8.5 ft which is not sufficient for the 8 children in care.
Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. No shade is available in the outdoor play space
Based on interview and observation the Licensee did not comply in the section cited above. Licensee did not provide food which met the requirements. This poses a potential risk to the health and safety of children in care.
Staff 3 does not meet educational requirements. This poses a potential threat to the personal rights of children in care.
Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in not covering an opening in the wall allowing exposed electrical wires to be accessible to children in care which poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above by not having a working carbon monoxide detector in the facility at the time of inspection which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 1 out of 2 staff did not have Meseals immunization, 2 out of 2 staff did not have Influenza immunization or Influenza declination, 2 out of 2 staff did not have Pertussis immunization which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in allowing access to a storage door without a doorknob and protruding nails to children in care, which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Complaint investigations
Unqualified staff are supervising daycare children
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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 198400296 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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