Carmel Youth Center · Carmel By The Sea
Carmel Youth Center is a licensed child care center in Carmel By The Sea, CA, licensed for up to 77 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2024. 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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Common questions
Has Carmel Youth Center had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
How much does Carmel Youth Center cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Carmel Youth Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Monterey County, which includes Carmel By The Sea, was $1,274 a month for infants (about $1,610 today), $878 a month for preschoolers (about $1,110 today) and $723 a month for school-age children (about $910 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Carmel Youth Center?
The licensee is Carmel Youth Center, and the administrator listed with the state is Kelly Schmidt.
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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 274417137 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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