Cogswell Head Start/State Preschool · Child Care Center, El Monte
Cogswell Head Start/State Preschool is a licensed child care center in El Monte, CA, licensed for up to 60 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2024. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 1 time. 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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Has Cogswell Head Start/State Preschool had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
When was Cogswell Head Start/State Preschool last inspected?
Sep 16, 2025. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Cogswell Head Start/State Preschool cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Cogswell Head Start/State Preschool for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Los Angeles County, which includes El Monte, was $1,555 a month for infants (about $1,960 today), $1,087 a month for preschoolers (about $1,370 today) and $821 a month for school-age children (about $1,040 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Cogswell Head Start/State Preschool?
The licensee is Mountain View School District, and the administrator listed with the state is Alma Gonzales.
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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 198021531 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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