Meraz Child Care Center

609 Summer St, Fortuna, CA 95540 · Humboldt County

Child care center (single license, multiple age groups)

Meraz Child Care Center is a licensed child care center in Fortuna, CA, licensed for up to 29 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2025. 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.

Inspection record

Not enough history California has not inspected this center since Feb 8, 2021. Centers are compared once they have at least 2 inspections.

0 Type A citations

0 Type B citations

0 Inspections

0 Complaints investigated

No citations in 3 state visits since Feb 8, 2021 · last inspected —

Every state visit

Citation issued No citation Top row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits

Citations, newest first

No citations in this period.

About this center

Licensed capacity 29 children

License type Child care center (single license, multiple age groups)

License status Licensed

Licensed since Aug 6, 2025

Licensee Meraz Child Care Center LLC

Administrator Guadalupe Meraz

Phone (707) 725-5513

State facility # 125408517

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Common questions

Has Meraz Child Care Center had any serious violations?

No Type A citations since 2021.

How much does Meraz Child Care Center cost?

California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Meraz Child Care Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Humboldt County, which includes Fortuna, was $1,198 a month for infants (about $1,510 today), $798 a month for preschoolers (about $1,010 today) and $712 a month for school-age children (about $900 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.

Who runs Meraz Child Care Center?

The licensee is Meraz Child Care Center LLC, and the administrator listed with the state is Guadalupe Meraz.

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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 125408517 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.

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