Storybook Schoolhouse: Preschool & Daycare · School-Age Program, Chico
Storybook Schoolhouse: Preschool & Daycare was a licensed child care center in Chico, CA, licensed for up to 51 children. Its license closed around April 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it once, investigated 3 complaints (2 substantiated) and issued 5 citations, 4 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
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Based on interviews, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above for multiple children, which poses an immediate health, safety, or personal rights risk to children in care. 8 Recommended resource for Active Supervision training: https://ccld.childcarevideos.org/child-care-center-operators/supervising-children-in-child-care-centers/
Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in last fire drill conducted 1/18/2023 which poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in pesticide found in unlocked cabinet in the kitchen of the school age building which poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
(a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: (3) To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threat, mental abuse or other actions of a punitive nature including but not limited to: interference with functions of daily living including eating, sleeping or toileting; or withholding of shelter, clothing, medication or aids to physical functioning. 1 S1 is not longer employed at the facility. Administrator to conduct an all staff meeting to discuss personal rights. An agenda with signatures of attendence to be submitted to CCL by 9/30/23. This regulation was not met as evidence by: S1 handled C1 in an agressive manner, which poses an immediate risk to children in care. 8
(a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: (3) To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threat, mental abuse or other actions of a punitive nature including but not limited to: interference with functions of daily living including eating, sleeping or toileting; or withholding of shelter, clothing, medication or aids to physical functioning. 1 S1 is not longer employed at the facility. Administrator to conduct an all staff meeting to discuss personal rights. An agenda with signatures of attendence to be submitted to CCL by 9/30/23. This regulation was net met as evidence by: S1 placed C1 in a restricted room which could feel intimidating to a child. This causes a potential risk to children in care. 8
Complaint investigations
Facility staff did not pick day care child up from school
Staff was alone in a restricted room with day care child
Staff inappropriately handled day care child
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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 045408191 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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