Life Spring Community Preschool and Infant Care · Preschool, Santa Cruz
Life Spring Community Preschool and Infant Care is a licensed child care center in Santa Cruz, CA, licensed for up to 60 children and serving preschool-age children. It has held its California license since 2017. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it twice. 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 34 centers in Santa Cruz and is tied for the best record statewide (no citations).
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Does Life Spring Community Preschool and Infant Care take infants?
Not under this license, which covers preschool-age children. An infant center is licensed separately at the same address (listed below).
Has Life Spring Community Preschool and Infant Care had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
How does Life Spring Community Preschool and Infant Care compare with other daycares in Santa Cruz?
It is tied for #1 of 34 centers in Santa Cruz by weighted citations per inspection, and is tied for the best record statewide (no citations).
When was Life Spring Community Preschool and Infant Care last inspected?
May 10, 2024. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Life Spring Community Preschool and Infant Care cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Life Spring Community Preschool and Infant Care for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Santa Cruz County, which includes Santa Cruz, was $1,183 a month for preschoolers (about $1,490 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Life Spring Community Preschool and Infant Care?
The licensee is Meadowood LLC, and the administrator listed with the state is Destiny Malone.
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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 444415674 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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