Little Acorns Montessori · 1215 Chanticleer Ave, Preschool, Santa Cruz
Little Acorns Montessori was a licensed child care center in Santa Cruz, CA, licensed for up to 42 children. Its license closed around September 2024. Since February 2021, the state inspected it once and issued 4 citations, 1 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
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Based on record review and interview on 05/16/2024 a child was able to walk away from teachers and out the front door into the parking lot of the facility and was out there for at most five munites before someone saw her and brought her back into the facility. 8 Both will be submitted by the plan of correction date.
Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above; which poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. During today's inspection the LPAs observed an employee present who was not cleared and associated to the facility license.
Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above; which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. staff's Mandated Reporter training have expired.
On 4/22/2022, CCL Department received a phone call from the day care center Director and reported an incident that occurred on 04/20/2022. The telephone call was made to the Department two (working) days after the incident happened which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
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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 444413867 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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