Long Beach Center-ability First
Long Beach Center-ability First is a licensed child care center in Long Beach, CA, licensed for up to 80 children and serving school-age children. It has held its California license since 1993. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 4 times. The state issued 2 citations, 1 of them Type A (the most serious). None came in the last 12 months. Measured by weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #90 of 124 centers in Long Beach and has more citations per inspection than 61% of California licensed centers.
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Based on observation, interview and record review, the facility left a client unattended resulting in the client wandering off. This poses an immediate health, safety and/or personal rights risk to persons in care. 8 member in the child care room going forward and the front door will be locked after 4PM.
Based on LPA Calderon and Administrator Stover's observation of record review Staff #1 and Staff #4 had missing required immunization records on file, and interview with A.Stover stated Staff #4 records are not in file, the facility did not comply with the section cited above in [2] out of [4] staff records, which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
About this center
Common questions
Does Long Beach Center-ability First take infants?
Not under this license, which covers school-age children.
Has Long Beach Center-ability First had any serious violations?
California issued 1 Type A citation since 2021, its most serious category. The most recent was on Jan 2, 2025, for health and safety for day care centers. Each citation is listed in full above.
How does Long Beach Center-ability First compare with other daycares in Long Beach?
It is tied for #90 of 124 centers in Long Beach by weighted citations per inspection, and has more citations per inspection than 61% of California licensed centers with enough inspection history to compare.
When was Long Beach Center-ability First last inspected?
Jan 30, 2026. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Long Beach Center-ability First cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Long Beach Center-ability First for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Los Angeles County, which includes Long Beach, was $821 a month for school-age children (about $1,040 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Long Beach Center-ability First?
The licensee is Long Beach Center-ability First, and the administrator listed with the state is April Stover.
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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 191600444 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.