McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps
McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps is a licensed child care center in Salinas, CA, licensed for up to 138 children and serving preschool-age children. It has held its California license since 2004. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 4 times and investigated 1 complaint, 0 of them substantiated. The state issued 1 citation, 0 of them Type A (the most serious). None came in the last 12 months. Measured by weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #10 of 34 centers in Salinas and has fewer citations per inspection than 61% of California licensed centers.
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Responsibility For Providing Care and Supervision - Title 22 regulations state a licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the needs of each child, and no child shall be without supervision of a teacher at any time. This includes visual observation. Since the incidents occurrence Monterey County Office of Education Head Start has immediately implemented several interventions: staff training's, professional development, mental health services, peer coaching, and disciplinary actions. Based on staff interviews, as well as the self reported incident report; there was a laps in supervision resulting in inappropriate behavior. This poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of the children in care. 8 The Program Director shall submit proof of training's and interventions to CCL by the POC date.
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Common questions
Does McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps take infants?
Not under this license, which covers preschool-age children.
Has McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021. It has 1 Type B citation, listed above.
Have there been complaints about McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps?
California investigated 1 complaint since 2021 and substantiated 0. Allegations are shown only for substantiated complaints.
How does McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps compare with other daycares in Salinas?
It is tied for #10 of 34 centers in Salinas by weighted citations per inspection, and has fewer citations per inspection than 61% of California licensed centers with enough inspection history to compare.
When was McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps last inspected?
Aug 17, 2026. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Monterey County, which includes Salinas, was $878 a month for preschoolers (about $1,110 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs McOe Salinas Child Development Head Start/State Ps?
The licensee is Monterey Co Office Of Ed - Head Start, and the administrator listed with the state is Rosa G. & Norma F..
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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 274407965 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.