Pine Cone Children's Center · Preschool, Redwood City
Pine Cone Children's Center is a licensed child care center in Redwood City, CA, licensed for up to 102 children and serving preschool-age children. It has held its California license since 2019. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 4 times. The state issued 1 citation, 1 of them Type A (the most serious). None came in the last 12 months. Measured by weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #29 of 43 centers in Redwood City and has more citations per inspection than 57% of California licensed centers.
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101170(e):All individuals subject to a criminal record review... shall prior to working, residing or volunteering in a licensed facility: (1) Obtain a California clearance or a criminal record exemption as required by the Department. This evidencie is not met by evidence by: 1 At 11:30am, LPA was reviewing files and noticed an individual adult was not in the association list. Individual left facility while LPA was still in the facility. Based on LPA's observation and file review, there was an uncleared and/or unassociated adult present in the facility while daycare children were present. This is an immediate health and safety hazard for the children in care. 8 Individual redid fingerprint clearance today. Director understands that individual may not return until she is cleared and associated to the facility. ILS
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Does Pine Cone Children's Center take infants?
Not under this license, which covers preschool-age children. An infant center is licensed separately at the same address (listed below).
Has Pine Cone Children's Center had any serious violations?
California issued 1 Type A citation since 2021, its most serious category. The most recent was on Sep 14, 2021, for criminal record clearance. Each citation is listed in full above.
How does Pine Cone Children's Center compare with other daycares in Redwood City?
It is tied for #29 of 43 centers in Redwood City by weighted citations per inspection, and has more citations per inspection than 57% of California licensed centers with enough inspection history to compare.
When was Pine Cone Children's Center last inspected?
Jun 18, 2026. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Pine Cone Children's Center cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Pine Cone Children's Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in San Mateo County, which includes Redwood City, was $1,619 a month for preschoolers (about $2,040 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Pine Cone Children's Center?
The licensee is Bright Horizons Children's Center LLC, and the administrator listed with the state is Micaela Alvarado.
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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 414004587 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.