Ees, Vista Early Learning Center
Ees, Vista Early Learning Center is a licensed child care center in Vista, CA, licensed for up to 30 children and serving infants and toddlers. It has held its California license since 2021. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 4 times and investigated 3 complaints, 2 of them substantiated. The state issued 4 citations, 0 of them Type A (the most serious), most often for health & medication (2 of 4). 4 citations came in the last 12 months. Measured by weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #25 of 53 centers in Vista and has more citations per inspection than 61% of California licensed centers.
Inspection record
Every state visit
What inspectors cited most
Citations, newest first
DIR will email LPA staff training agenda and sign-in, covering review of center sick policy. Agenda will include parent contact protocol, review of CDPH resource and isolation protocol. Management will also include staff role pay to discuss scenarios. Record review and interviews corroborated that children who become ill or express multiple signs of illness, authorized representatives are not contacted in a timely manner. This poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.
DIR will email LPA staff training agenda and sign-in, covering center protocol for parent notification in a timely manner. Agenda will include parent contact protocol, review of CDPH resource and isolation strategies. Record review and interviews corroborated that management is not following the centers sick policy, allowing children who were either isolated or should have been isolated to remain in care until end of day. This poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.
DIR will email LPA verification of pest management service annual plan and approved vendor. Interviews and record review corroborated that over an eleven-month period, pest management services have been requested nine times due to incident, with no service vendor being successfully approved in a timely manner. This poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.
Based on staff interviews, C1 was fed C2's breastmilk. This is a potential health and safety risk for children in care.
Complaint investigations
1. Children with signs of illness are not being isolated from other children in care.
2. Staff are allowing ill children to remain in care.
3. Staff do not keep the facility free of insects.
Staff fed daycare child another daycare child’s milk (breast milk).
About this center
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Common questions
Does Ees, Vista Early Learning Center take infants?
Yes. It is licensed by California as an infant center.
Has Ees, Vista Early Learning Center had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021. It has 4 Type B citations, listed above.
Have there been complaints about Ees, Vista Early Learning Center?
California investigated 3 complaints since 2021 and substantiated 2. Allegations are shown only for substantiated complaints.
How does Ees, Vista Early Learning Center compare with other daycares in Vista?
It is tied for #25 of 53 centers in Vista by weighted citations per inspection, and has more citations per inspection than 61% of California licensed centers with enough inspection history to compare.
When was Ees, Vista Early Learning Center last inspected?
Feb 9, 2026. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Ees, Vista Early Learning Center cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Ees, Vista Early Learning Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in San Diego County, which includes Vista, was $1,462 a month for infants (about $1,840 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Ees, Vista Early Learning Center?
The licensee is Educational Enrichment Systems INC, and the administrator listed with the state is Darlene Skidmore.
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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 376300263 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.