Laep Early Head Start Childcare Center
Laep Early Head Start Childcare Center is a licensed child care center in Hawthorne, CA, licensed for up to 32 children and serving preschool-age children. It has held its California license since 2024. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have not made a routine inspection and investigated 2 complaints, none of them substantiated. 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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About this center
Common questions
Does Laep Early Head Start Childcare Center take infants?
Not under this license, which covers preschool-age children.
Has Laep Early Head Start Childcare Center had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
Have there been complaints about Laep Early Head Start Childcare Center?
California investigated 2 complaints since 2021 and substantiated 0. Allegations are shown only for substantiated complaints.
How much does Laep Early Head Start Childcare Center cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Laep Early Head Start Childcare Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Los Angeles County, which includes Hawthorne, was $1,087 a month for preschoolers (about $1,370 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Laep Early Head Start Childcare Center?
The licensee is Los Angeles Education Partnership, and the administrator listed with the state is Nancy Villarreal.
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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 197495327 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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