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Monarch Academy For Young Children

27927 Smyth Drive, Valencia, CA 91355 · Los Angeles County
ClosedChild care center (preschool)
This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of Feb 18, 2025. Its state inspection history is shown below.

Monarch Academy For Young Children was a licensed child care center in Valencia, CA, licensed for up to 56 children. Its license closed around February 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 2 times and investigated 1 complaint, 0 substantiated, and issued 1 citation, 0 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

0Type A citations
1Type B citations
2Inspections
0 of 1Complaints substantiated

Every state visit

20222023202420252026INSPECTIONS (top) · REPORTS & INVESTIGATIONS (bottom)May 29, 2024 · Inspection · no citationMay 12, 2023 · Inspection · no citationFeb 3, 2022 · Report/investigation · no citationFeb 3, 2022 · Report/investigation · citation found
Citation issuedNo citationTop row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits

What inspectors cited most

Caregiver conduct1

Citations, newest first

Type BFeb 3, 2022Case management visit (deficiencies)Caregiver conduct
Personal rights §101223(a)(2)
Based on observations and interviews on visits from 11/19/21 and 02/03/22 children at the facility are not wearing masks, which poses a potential Health, Safety or Personal Rights risk to children in care.
Plan of correction due Feb 10, 2022

Complaint investigations

Not substantiatedFeb 3, 2022Complaint investigationreceived Nov 18, 2021
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.

About this center

Licensed capacity56 children
License typeChild care center (preschool)
License statusClosed
Licensed sinceMay 13, 2009
ClosedFeb 18, 2025
LicenseeMatthess, Hanna & Matthess, Shawn
Last administratorHanna Matthess
State facility #197416202

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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 197416202 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.

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