Discovery Preschool and Family Center · Santa Cruz

440 Fredrick Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 · Santa Cruz County

Closed Child care center (preschool)

This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of Mar 5, 2023. Its state inspection history is shown below.

Discovery Preschool and Family Center was a licensed child care center in Santa Cruz, CA, licensed for up to 40 children. Its license closed around March 2023. Since February 2021, the state visited it once and issued no citations. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

0 Type A citations

0 Type B citations

0 Inspections

0 Complaints investigated

Every state visit

Citation issued No citation Top row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits

Citations, newest first

No citations in this period.

About this center

Licensed capacity 40 children

License type Child care center (preschool)

License status Closed

Licensed since Jan 20, 2023

Closed Mar 5, 2023

Licensee Discovery Preschool And Family Center

Last administrator Sara Balla

State facility # 444417082

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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 444417082 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.

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