Primrose Schools 4s Ranch
Primrose Schools 4s Ranch is a licensed child care center in San Diego, CA, licensed for up to 36 children and serving infants and toddlers. It has held its California license since 2021. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 3 times and investigated 2 complaints, 0 of them substantiated. The state issued 6 citations, 0 of them Type A (the most serious), most often for training & qualifications (3 of 6). None came in the last 12 months. Measured by weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #218 of 307 centers in San Diego and has more citations per inspection than 79% of California licensed centers.
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Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. Changing tables observed today did not have a padded surface. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on interview and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. Staff did not maintain 15-minute nap logs. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Child care center personnel shall be competent to provide the services necessary to meet the individual needs of children in care and shall at all times be employed in numbers sufficient to meet those needs. This requirement is not met as evidence by: 1 Director stated the staff members involved were counseled and all infant staff members has been retrained on bottle tracking and feeding procedures on 11/18/2023. On 11/10/2023, staff fed the wrong bottle of formula milk to infant #1. Infant #1 did not sustain any allergic reaction from drinking infant #2's formula milk. This poses a potential health and safety risk to children in care. This is a repeat violation that also happened on 04/05/2023. Director provided the 11/18/2023 staff members sign in sheet and the agenda to LPA.
Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision for Infants- Each infant shall be constantly supervised and under direct visual observation and supervision by a staff person at all times. This requirement is not met as evidence by: During the facility's monthly staff meeting on 11/18/2023. Director and licensee reminded everyone about the visual supervision requirements and proper positioning during all transition. On 11/16/2023 around 10:51am, a day care child walked from the playground door towards his class without visual supervision for about a minute during the outdoor to indoor transition in the toddler 1 class. A staff brought the child back to his teachers at the playground that were trying to transfer the kids inside. This poses a potential health and safety risk to children. 8 Director provided the 11/18/2023 staff members sign in sheet and agenda to LPA.
Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 1 out of 5 staff's file does not have a transcript available for review as the staff's credential had expired two months ago. This poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Child care center personnel shall be competent to provide the services necessary to meet the individual needs of children in care and shall at all times be employed in numbers sufficient to meet those needs. This requirement is not met as evidence by: 1 Director stated that all staff members involved were counseled and all infant staff members has been retrained on bottle tracking and feeding procedures on 03/17/2023. On 03/16/2023, staff #1 fed the wrong bottle of milk to infant #1 because she did not clearly verify the bottle information prior to feeding. Infant#1 did not sustain any allergic reaction to the wrong bottle of breast milk. This is a potential health and safety risk to children in care if not corrected. Director stated that she will submit the agenda along with the staff members's name and signed in sheet to LPA with the updated bottle verfication form by 04/14/2023.
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Common questions
Does Primrose Schools 4s Ranch take infants?
Yes. It is licensed by California as an infant center.
Has Primrose Schools 4s Ranch had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021. It has 6 Type B citations, listed above.
Have there been complaints about Primrose Schools 4s Ranch?
California investigated 2 complaints since 2021 and substantiated 0. Allegations are shown only for substantiated complaints.
How does Primrose Schools 4s Ranch compare with other daycares in San Diego?
It is tied for #218 of 307 centers in San Diego 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 Primrose Schools 4s Ranch last inspected?
Feb 26, 2026. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Primrose Schools 4s Ranch cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Primrose Schools 4s Ranch for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in San Diego County, which includes San Diego, was $1,462 a month for infants (about $1,840 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Primrose Schools 4s Ranch?
The licensee is Live, Love, Learn, LLC, and the administrator listed with the state is Jessica Hewitt.
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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 376105047 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.