California · Escondido · 92026

Heartbeat Music/Pa Academy Preschool

1300 N Escondido Bovd., Escondido, CA 92026 · San Diego County

Closed Child care center (preschool)

This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of Sep 10, 2025. Its state inspection history is shown below.

Heartbeat Music/Pa Academy Preschool was a licensed child care center in Escondido, CA, licensed for up to 72 children. Its license closed around September 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it once, investigated 2 complaints (0 substantiated) and issued 2 citations, both of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

2 Type A citations

0 Type B citations

1 Inspections

0 of 2 Complaints substantiated

Every state visit

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

What inspectors cited most

Caregiver conduct 1

Background checks 1

Citations, newest first

Type A Aug 12, 2025 Case management visit (other) Caregiver conduct

Personal rights §101223(a)

Based on evidence gathered, video footage reviewed, and interviews conducted, it was revealed that 2 staff members at the CCC, did violate a child’s personal rights when physically mishandling a child during nap time, on 07/31/2025...

Plan of correction due Sep 12, 2025

Type A Mar 5, 2024 Case management visit (deficiencies) Background checks

Criminal record clearance §101170(e)(1)

Based on record review, S1 did not have a complete clearance. On 1/25/24, S1 was to submit a completed LIC508 which was not received by the Department. This poses an immediate health and safety risk to children in care.

Plan of correction due Mar 6, 2024

Complaint investigations

Not substantiated Apr 17, 2024 Complaint investigation received Mar 11, 2024

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

Not substantiated Mar 14, 2024 Complaint investigation received Feb 27, 2024

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

About this center

Licensed capacity 72 children

License type Child care center (preschool)

License status Closed

Licensed since Dec 8, 2022

Closed Sep 10, 2025

Licensee Heartbeat Music/Performing Arts Academy

Last administrator Hawthorne,tyra

State facility # 376300589

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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 376300589 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.

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