Little Scholars Childcare Center · Palm Desert
Little Scholars Childcare Center is a licensed child care center in Palm Desert, CA, licensed for up to 69 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2024. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it once. 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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Common questions
Has Little Scholars Childcare Center had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
When was Little Scholars Childcare Center last inspected?
Oct 16, 2025. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Little Scholars Childcare Center cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Little Scholars Childcare Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Riverside County, which includes Palm Desert, was $1,249 a month for infants (about $1,580 today), $856 a month for preschoolers (about $1,080 today) and $767 a month for school-age children (about $970 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Little Scholars Childcare Center?
The licensee is Little Scholars Childcare Center, and the administrator listed with the state is Gutierrez,veronica.
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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 336301241 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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