Evergreen Montessori Academy, LLC
Evergreen Montessori Academy, LLC was a licensed child care center in Pasadena, CA, licensed for up to 52 children. Its license closed around June 2023. Since February 2021, the state inspected it once, investigated 1 complaint (1 substantiated) and issued 2 citations, both of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
Inspection history
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Safety teachers are required to take a safety head count every 15 minutes and logging it in pro care app. Staff have been trained where to stand from the entrty doors, cubby areas and bathrooms. Meeting on body position where to stand outside. Will bring a safety specialist to train all staf. Go over with staff on personal rights, C1 was last observed inside the classroom at 11:45 AM. S1 found C1 in the business parking lot away from t he facility at 11:56 AM. C1 was missing for 11 minutes. This poses an immediate risk to the health and safety of children in care. 8 supervision. In the form of a memo and aquire staff signitures. Submit to LPA by 8/15/22.
We brought the pasadena fire department to discuss or opitions on how to raise the handle and put a magnetic lock at the top of the gate. Locked all the back door added door bells. Replace the back gate leading to the parking lot. Want to put a latch higher so children can't reach. S3 contacted ED to inform that C1 had gone missing and they were looking for her everywhere. That S3 and S4 were convinced C1 was inside the building. LPA observed the route C1 used to exit the building LPA observed the back door in the yard and the parking lot gate to be accessible to C1. This poses an immediate risk to the health and safety of children in care. 8 Have contacted companies to come to the property and give us the option we can work with.
Complaint investigations
Day care child wandered from facility due to lack of supervision.
Staff are not providing a safe environment for day care children while in care.
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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 198020782 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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