Lake Merritt Child Care Center · Preschool, Oakland
Lake Merritt Child Care Center is a licensed child care center in Oakland, CA, licensed for up to 133 children and serving preschool-age children. It has held its California license since 2021. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 3 times and investigated 2 complaints, none of them substantiated. The state issued 3 citations, 1 of them Type A (the most serious). None of them came in the last 12 months. Measured by weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #97 of 142 centers in Oakland and has more citations per inspection than 76% of California licensed centers.
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Based on interviews, staff use physical means such as grabbing or hitting to discipline children, which poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on interviews, staff did not allow parent to enter facility and inspect classroom, which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on interview and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above by ensuring all staff have the required immunization records in file, which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. 1 staff did not have required immunization records in file.
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Common questions
Does Lake Merritt Child Care Center take infants?
Not under this license, which covers preschool-age children.
Has Lake Merritt Child Care Center had any serious violations?
California issued 1 Type A citation since 2021, its most serious category. The most recent was on Dec 18, 2024, for personal rights. Each citation is listed in full above.
Have there been complaints about Lake Merritt Child Care Center?
California investigated 2 complaints since 2021 and substantiated 0. Allegations are shown only for substantiated complaints.
How does Lake Merritt Child Care Center compare with other daycares in Oakland?
It is tied for #97 of 142 centers in Oakland by weighted citations per inspection, and has more citations per inspection than 76% of California licensed centers with enough inspection history to compare.
When was Lake Merritt Child Care Center last inspected?
Aug 12, 2026. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Lake Merritt Child Care Center cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Lake Merritt Child Care Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Alameda County, which includes Oakland, was $1,547 a month for preschoolers (about $1,950 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Lake Merritt Child Care Center?
The licensee is Family Bridges INC., and the administrator listed with the state is Shukyin Lai Shui.
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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 013423103 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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