Merryhill School - La Vida · Preschool, Davis
Merryhill School - La Vida was a licensed child care center in Davis, CA, licensed for up to 88 children. Its license closed around July 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 4 times, and issued 2 citations, 2 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
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Based on interviews conducted, LPA learned at least one staff forcefully held a child on the changing table while attempting to change a diaper and at times had aggressive tones/ words. This poses an immediate health, safety, or personal rights risk to children in care.
Based on interviews, the facility did not comply with the section cited above which poses an immediate 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 570311280 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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