Joyful Junction Preschool · Child Care Center, Tehachapi
Joyful Junction Preschool is a licensed child care center in Tehachapi, CA, licensed for up to 124 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2025. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 1 time. No visit in that period produced a citation, which puts it among the 34% of ranked California centers with no citations. It has too few inspections so far for a statewide comparison.
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Has Joyful Junction Preschool had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
When was Joyful Junction Preschool last inspected?
Feb 18, 2026. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Joyful Junction Preschool cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Joyful Junction Preschool for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Kern County, which includes Tehachapi, was $1,272 a month for infants (about $1,610 today), $837 a month for preschoolers (about $1,060 today) and $717 a month for school-age children (about $900 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Joyful Junction Preschool?
The licensee is Sest LLC, and the administrator listed with the state is Jackie Fowler.
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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 157750014 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.