California · Oceanside · 92058

Santa Margarita Elementary School Preschool

1 Carnes Road, Oceanside, CA 92058 · San Diego County

Closed Child care center (preschool)

This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of Jun 13, 2025. Its state inspection history is shown below.

Santa Margarita Elementary School Preschool was a licensed child care center in Oceanside, CA, licensed for up to 25 children. Its license closed around June 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it twice and issued 1 citation, 0 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

0 Type A citations

1 Type B citations

2 Inspections

0 Complaints investigated

Every state visit

Citation issued No citation Top row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits

What inspectors cited most

Health & medication 1

Citations, newest first

Type B Oct 3, 2022 Inspection Health & medication

Children's medical assessments §101220(a)

Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above as four of six children did not have medical assessments on file which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Plan of correction due Oct 25, 2022

About this center

Licensed capacity 25 children

License type Child care center (preschool)

License status Closed

Licensed since Sep 15, 2011

Closed Jun 13, 2025

Licensee Oceanside Unified School District

Last administrator Ameret Reed

State facility # 376700838

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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 376700838 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.

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