Kinder Cottage Children's Center

3834 Gross Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 · Santa Cruz County

Child care center (single license, multiple age groups)

Kinder Cottage Children's Center is a licensed child care center in Santa Cruz, CA, licensed for up to 24 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2024. 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.

Inspection record

Not enough history California has inspected this center 0 times since Feb 8, 2021. Centers are compared once they have at least 2 inspections.

0 Type A citations

0 Type B citations

0 Inspections

0 Complaints investigated

0 citations from 1 state visit since Feb 8, 2021 · 0 in the last 12 months · last inspected —

Every state visit

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

Citations, newest first

No citations in this period.

About this center

Licensed capacity 24 children

License type Child care center (single license, multiple age groups)

License status Licensed

Licensed since Nov 25, 2024

Licensee Kinder Cottage Children's Center LLC

Administrator Kathryn Ann Kvenild

Phone (831) 475-0899

State facility # 444417156

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Common questions

Has Kinder Cottage Children's Center had any serious violations?

No Type A citations since 2021.

How much does Kinder Cottage Children's Center cost?

California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Kinder Cottage Children's Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Santa Cruz County, which includes Santa Cruz, was $1,678 a month for infants (about $2,120 today), $1,183 a month for preschoolers (about $1,490 today) and $725 a month for school-age children (about $910 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.

Who runs Kinder Cottage Children's Center?

The licensee is Kinder Cottage Children's Center LLC, and the administrator listed with the state is Kathryn Ann Kvenild.

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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 444417156 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.

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