Shining Stars Christian Preschool
Shining Stars Christian Preschool was a licensed child care center in Irvine, CA, licensed for up to 85 children. Its license closed around June 2024. Since February 2021, the state inspected it once, investigated 2 complaints (1 substantiated) and issued 3 citations, none of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
Inspection history
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What inspectors cited most
Citations, newest first
Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility did not comply with the section cited above by the facility conducted a Sampling Lead Testing on 3/03/2023. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility did not comply with the section cited above. During staff file review, LPA observed the S1, S2, S3 & S5 missing the current mandated reporter certification. Director was unable to provide the current mandated reporter certification which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on LPAs observations and interviews conducted, facility did not require children over 2 years old to wear face coverings while inside the facility, as required by the CA Dept. of Public Health Guidance on the use of face coverings on children, and individual mask exemptions did not apply. This poses a potential health and safety and personal rights risk to the children in care. 8 Per Assistant Director, will provide staff a copy of the current CA Dept. of Health guidance on use of face coverings, and obtain a summary of the guidance, including examples of ways to encourage mask-wearing of children, by all staff. Assistant Director will provide copy of Agenda notes and staff signatures by the due date of 2/9/22.
Complaint investigations
Masks are not being worn by children at the day care
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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 304370554 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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