Montessori By the Lake, INC
Montessori By the Lake, INC is a licensed child care center in Castaic, CA, licensed for up to 182 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.
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Has Montessori By the Lake, INC had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
How much does Montessori By the Lake, INC cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Montessori By the Lake, INC for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Los Angeles County, which includes Castaic, was $1,555 a month for infants (about $1,960 today), $1,087 a month for preschoolers (about $1,370 today) and $821 a month for school-age children (about $1,040 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Montessori By the Lake, INC?
The licensee is Montessori By The Lake, INC, and the administrator listed with the state is Melissa Dawson.
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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 197750219 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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