Rising Star Preschool · Preschool, Sacramento
Rising Star Preschool was a licensed child care center in Sacramento, CA, licensed for up to 23 children. Its license closed around September 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 2 times and investigated 4 complaints, 3 substantiated, and issued 12 citations, 5 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
Inspection history
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Based on observation and interviews, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above when LPA witnessed staff using profanity infront of children and mutiple parents stating that their children's diapering needs are not met. This poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. 8 Request Denied
Based on observation and interviews, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above when LPA learned that the last food order was 3 weeks ago & mutiple parents has donated food to the facility on different days. This poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Licensee will also submit a statement to knowledge the regulation and a plan to prevent absence of supervision in the facility. Licensee will email LPA Vang a copy of the signed agenda by the
Licensee will discuss with staff and email LPA a plan to stay in compliance by the
Licensee will obtain these forms from parents/guardians for the chidren's files. Licensee will notify LPA Vang by the
Licensee will complete and email a copy of the LIC 9040 form to LPA Vang by the
Based on observation, interviews, record reviews, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above with S1's background clearence is not assoicated prior to employment at the facility, which posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on observation, interviews, record reviews, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above with no personnel file for S1 at the facility, which posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on observation, interview, record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above with no director or a fully qualified Teacher supervising the facility, which posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on observation and interview, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. LPA did not observed a working carbon monoxide detector in the facility, which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on observation and interview, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. LPA observed a rusted nail exposed through composing wood on the corner of the wooden platform around the tree. LPA also observed a small ditch between the cement walkway into the middle of the preschool play yard. This posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Every child care center shall have all admission policies in writing and available to the public. The policies shall coincide with the limitations stated on the license, and shall include, but not be limited to, the following: Written admission criteria designating those children whose needs can be met by the center's program and services. 1 LPA spoke to Director who stated the social media team would remove the photos/videos of those children whose guardians did not consent to having them posted on social media ASAP. This was not evidenced by: The facility failing to adhere to their signed photo policy, where a guardian declined to have their child posted on social media and staff posted photos and/or videos without consent. 8
Complaint investigations
Staff did not assist day care child with toileting needs.
Staff made inappropriate comments.
Staff did not ensure adequate food services were provided to day care child(ren).
Staff are working without appropriate records on file.
Admission Agreement - Staff are not following facility's photo policies
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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 343624429 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.