CDC, INC. Friendship Academy Children's Center · Preschool, Torrance
CDC, INC. Friendship Academy Children's Center is a licensed child care center in Torrance, CA, licensed for up to 119 children and serving preschool-age children. It has held its California license since 2009. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it once. 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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Does CDC, INC. Friendship Academy Children's Center take infants?
Not under this license, which covers preschool-age children.
Has CDC, INC. Friendship Academy Children's Center had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
When was CDC, INC. Friendship Academy Children's Center last inspected?
Oct 18, 2023. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does CDC, INC. Friendship Academy Children's Center cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask CDC, INC. Friendship Academy Children's Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Los Angeles County, which includes Torrance, was $1,087 a month for preschoolers (about $1,370 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs CDC, INC. Friendship Academy Children's Center?
The licensee is Comm. Development INC. Friendship Children's Ctr, and the administrator listed with the state is Susie Taylor.
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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 197415770 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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