Happy Campers Preschool Daycare

510 Laurel Street, San Carlos, CA 94070 · San Mateo County

Closed Child care center (preschool)

This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of Jul 11, 2024. Its state inspection history is shown below.

Happy Campers Preschool Daycare was a licensed child care center in San Carlos, CA, licensed for up to 106 children. Its license closed around July 2024. Since February 2021, the state inspected it twice, investigated 3 complaints (1 substantiated) and issued 2 citations, 1 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

1 Type A citations

1 Type B citations

2 Inspections

1 of 3 Complaints substantiated

Every state visit

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

What inspectors cited most

Building & playground safety 1

Supervision 1

Citations, newest first

Type A Mar 6, 2024 Complaint investigation Building & playground safety

Buildings and grounds §101238(a)

Based on interviews and observations facility did not ensure facility as well as childrens and staffs bathrooms and facility were kept clean and in good repair. This poses an immediate health and safety risk to children enrolled.

Plan of correction due Mar 13, 2024

Type B Mar 10, 2022 Inspection Supervision

Care and supervision of infants §101429(a)(2)(B)

Based on interview, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 1 out of 10children's files which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Plan of correction due Mar 11, 2022

Complaint investigations

Substantiated Mar 6, 2024 Complaint investigation received Feb 15, 2024

Substantiated allegation:

Staff does not ensure facility sanitized and clean.

1 citation issued during this investigation, listed under Citations.

Not substantiated Dec 8, 2023 Complaint investigation received Sep 13, 2023

The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.

Not substantiated Dec 8, 2023 Complaint investigation received Sep 22, 2023

The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.

About this center

Licensed capacity 106 children

License type Child care center (preschool)

License status Closed

Licensed since Mar 27, 1996

Closed Jul 11, 2024

Licensee John Grech & Audra Grech

Last administrator Audra Tsivikas

State facility # 414000158

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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 414000158 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.

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