The Play Atelier Nursery School
The Play Atelier Nursery School is a licensed child care center in Los Angeles, CA, licensed for up to 45 children and serving preschool-age children. It has held its California license since 2023. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it twice. The state issued 2 citations, 1 of them Type A (the most serious). None of them came in the last 12 months. Measured by weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #347 of 495 centers in Los Angeles and has more citations per inspection than 79% of California licensed centers.
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Based on testing results provided by the facility with an Action Level Exceedance (ALE) which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
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Common questions
Does The Play Atelier Nursery School take infants?
Not under this license, which covers preschool-age children.
Has The Play Atelier Nursery School had any serious violations?
California issued 1 Type A citation since 2021, its most serious category. The most recent was on Aug 14, 2024, for health-related services. Each citation is listed in full above.
How does The Play Atelier Nursery School compare with other daycares in Los Angeles?
It is tied for #347 of 495 centers in Los Angeles by weighted citations per inspection, and has more citations per inspection than 79% of California licensed centers with enough inspection history to compare.
When was The Play Atelier Nursery School last inspected?
Mar 5, 2026. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does The Play Atelier Nursery School cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask The Play Atelier Nursery School for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Los Angeles County, which includes Los Angeles, was $1,087 a month for preschoolers (about $1,370 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs The Play Atelier Nursery School?
The licensee is Kiddo Kare, INC, and the administrator listed with the state is Aremi Sanchez.
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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 198021170 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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