Mission Head Start-valencia Gardens
Mission Head Start-valencia Gardens is a licensed child care center in San Francisco, CA, licensed for up to 27 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2025. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it once. The state issued 1 citation, 1 of them Type A (the most serious). It came in the last 12 months, including 1 Type A. It has too few inspections so far for a statewide comparison.
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Common questions
Has Mission Head Start-valencia Gardens had any serious violations?
California issued 1 Type A citation since 2021, its most serious category. The most recent was on Oct 30, 2025, for criminal record clearance. Each citation is listed in full above.
When was Mission Head Start-valencia Gardens last inspected?
Oct 30, 2025. The state issued at least one citation during that visit.
How much does Mission Head Start-valencia Gardens cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Mission Head Start-valencia Gardens for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in San Francisco County, which includes San Francisco, was $2,084 a month for infants (about $2,630 today), $1,735 a month for preschoolers (about $2,190 today) and $792 a month for school-age children (about $1,000 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Mission Head Start-valencia Gardens?
The licensee is Mission Neighborhood Centers, INC., and the administrator listed with the state is Christina Samuel.
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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 384005039 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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