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Imagination Springs

27719 Stallion Springs Drive, Tehachapi, CA 93561 · Kern County
ClosedChild care center (single license, multiple age groups)
This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of May 9, 2024. Its state inspection history is shown below.

Imagination Springs was a licensed child care center in Tehachapi, CA, licensed for up to 18 children. Its license closed around May 2024. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 0 times and investigated 1 complaint, 0 substantiated, and issued 2 citations, 1 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

1Type A citations
1Type B citations
0Inspections
0 of 1Complaints substantiated

Every state visit

20222023202420252026INSPECTIONS (top) · REPORTS & INVESTIGATIONS (bottom)May 1, 2024 · Report/investigation · citation foundApr 16, 2024 · Report/investigation · citation foundNov 29, 2023 · Report/investigation · no citation
Citation issuedNo citationTop row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits

What inspectors cited most

Other standards1
Staff ratios1

Citations, newest first

Type AMay 1, 2024Complaint investigationOther standards
Operation Without a License §101157(a)
101157 Operation Without a License (a) If an unlicensed child care center is providing care and supervision as defined in Section 101152c.(2), the center is in violation of Health and Safety Code Section 1596.80 unless exempted from licensure pursuant to Section 101158. This requirement was not met by... 1 Facility ceased operations on 01/22/24 after finding out they could not operate due to their license not being granted final approval Facility became license on March 7, 2024. Based on interviews and record review, it was disclosed the facility started operating in January 8, 2024 for a period of two weeks until January 22, 2024. This poses an immediate health and safety to children in care. 8
Plan of correction due May 1, 2024
Type BApr 16, 2024Case management visit (deficiencies)Staff ratios
Capacity limits §101161(a)
During inspection LPA observed child being picked up by his mother. Director agrees to come up with a plan to avoid commingling children in the future by 04/19/2024 During inspection LPA observed one Preschool Age Child to be commingling with four toddlers in the toddler component room which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 16, 2024

Complaint investigations

Not substantiatedMay 1, 2024Complaint investigationreceived Apr 11, 2024
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.
1 citation issued during this investigation, listed under Citations.

About this center

Licensed capacity18 children
License typeChild care center (single license, multiple age groups)
License statusClosed
Licensed sinceMar 7, 2024
ClosedMay 9, 2024
LicenseeMichelle Rincon Story
Last administratorMichelle Rincon Story
State facility #157750010

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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 157750010 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.