Kreative Beginnings
Kreative Beginnings is a licensed child care center in Chico, CA, licensed for up to 24 children and serving preschool-age children. It has held its California license since 2019. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 3 times. No visit in that period produced a citation, which puts it among the 34% of ranked California centers with no citations. Measured by weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #1 of 47 centers in Chico and tied for the best record statewide (no citations).
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Common questions
Does Kreative Beginnings take infants?
Not under this license, which covers preschool-age children. An infant center is licensed separately at the same address (listed below).
Has Kreative Beginnings had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
How does Kreative Beginnings compare with other daycares in Chico?
It is tied for #1 of 47 centers in Chico by weighted citations per inspection, and is tied for the best record statewide (no citations) (out of 10,948 California centers with enough inspection history).
When was Kreative Beginnings last inspected?
May 2, 2025. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Kreative Beginnings cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Kreative Beginnings for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Butte County, which includes Chico, was $695 a month for preschoolers (about $880 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Kreative Beginnings?
The licensee is Best, Katherine & Jones, Dawn, and the administrator listed with the state is Katherine Best.
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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 045407585 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.