Foothill Head Start
Foothill Head Start was a licensed child care center in San Jose, CA, licensed for up to 48 children. Its license closed around June 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 3 times, and issued 2 citations, 1 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
Inspection history
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Based on [(observation) (interview) (record review)], the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. The facility did not maintain MMR records for S2 and S3 and TDap for S2, which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
By POC date: Program Director states they will submit a detailed plan to ensure that children are supervised at all times. Per CCR 101197, a civil penalty is not being assessed. LPA's observation, interviews conducted, and record review during the investigation it was determined that the 6 staff had not noticed the infant leaving the classroom through the front entry, only to be notified by another child that (C1) was outside of the classroom in the courtyard. This poses an immediate risk to the health and safety of the children in care. 8 Upon receipt, licensee shall post and provide copies of this licensing report,have LIC 9224 signed and kept on file, to parents/guardians of children in care at the facility and to parents/guardians of children newly enrolled at the facility during the next 12 months.
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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 434415557 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.