Dina's Daycare Before and After School
Dina's Daycare Before and After School is a licensed child care center in Merced, CA, licensed for up to 19 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 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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Common questions
Has Dina's Daycare Before and After School had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
When was Dina's Daycare Before and After School last inspected?
Sep 24, 2025. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Dina's Daycare Before and After School cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Dina's Daycare Before and After School for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Merced County, which includes Merced, was $1,177 a month for infants (about $1,490 today), $730 a month for preschoolers (about $920 today) and $711 a month for school-age children (about $900 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Dina's Daycare Before and After School?
The licensee is Dina Gonzalez, and the administrator listed with the state is Isabel Desalez.
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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 243810284 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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