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Sunnyside Learning Center

178 South Rancho Santa Fe Road, San Marcos, CA 92078 · San Diego County
ClosedChild care center (preschool)
This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of Sep 1, 2025. Its state inspection history is shown below.

Sunnyside Learning Center was a licensed child care center in San Marcos, CA, licensed for up to 32 children. Its license closed around September 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 2 times and investigated 8 complaints, 2 substantiated, and issued 10 citations, 1 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

1Type A citations
9Type B citations
2Inspections
2 of 8Complaints substantiated

Every state visit

20222023202420252026INSPECTIONS (top) · REPORTS & INVESTIGATIONS (bottom)Apr 10, 2025 · Inspection · citation foundAug 29, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citationJun 27, 2024 · Report/investigation · citation foundMay 30, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citationMay 30, 2024 · Report/investigation · citation foundMay 30, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citationApr 15, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citationJan 30, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citationJun 15, 2023 · Report/investigation · citation foundJun 15, 2023 · Report/investigation · no citationMay 3, 2023 · Report/investigation · no citationFeb 15, 2023 · Inspection · citation foundSep 1, 2022 · Report/investigation · no citationAug 15, 2022 · Report/investigation · no citation
Citation issuedNo citationTop row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits

What inspectors cited most

Training & qualifications4
Staff ratios1
Building & playground safety1
Caregiver conduct1
Health & medication1
Other standards1
Records & paperwork1

Citations, newest first

Type BApr 10, 2025InspectionTraining & qualifications
Director qualifications and duties §101215.1(b)
Based on interview and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. Facility did not have a designated director. Mr. Ilaian has designated himself as acting director when his director left a few months ago. Mr. Ilaian does not qualify as a director. He is missing units in Administration. This deficiency poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 24, 2025
Type BApr 10, 2025InspectionStaff ratios
Teacher-child ratio §101216.3(b)
Based on observation and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. LPA observed 17 preschool children supervised by Mr. Ilaian (Fully qualified teacher), Ashley Ward (Aide) and Fariha Amin (Aide). This deficiency poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 10, 2025
Type BJun 27, 2024Complaint investigationBuilding & playground safety
Indoor activity space for infants §101438.3(b)
Based on interviews conducted by LPA, infants under 1 year old and preschool age were allowed to use Infant Room 2 during drop off times. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to the children in care.
Plan of correction due Jul 5, 2024
Type AMay 30, 2024Complaint investigationTraining & qualifications
Teacher qualifications and duties §101216.1(c)(1)
Based on interviews and record review, the licensee did not make sure that 2 out of 2 preschool staff have full teacher qualifications before employment and they had children in care while no owner or director on site, which poses an immediate Health, Safety, or Personal Rights risk to the children in care.
Plan of correction due Jun 7, 2024
Type BJun 15, 2023Complaint investigationCaregiver conduct
Personal rights §101223(a)(3)
Based on video footage taken on 4/24/23 in the preschool classrooms children were awake on cots in the napping area. The children were not provided an alternate activity to do outside of the napping area during what was observed to be napping time. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risks to the children in care.
Plan of correction due Jun 30, 2023
Type BFeb 15, 2023InspectionHealth & medication
Staff immunizations §1596.7995(a)(1)
Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in one out of four staff files reviewed did not contain verification of immunization to measles & pertussis. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Feb 28, 2023
Type BFeb 15, 2023InspectionTraining & qualifications
Mandated reporter training §1596.8662(b)(1)
Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in one out of four staff files reviewed did not contain mandated reporter certification. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Feb 28, 2023
Type BFeb 15, 2023InspectionOther standards
Current roster of children provided care in facility required §1596.841
Based on record review and director statement the facility does not maintain a current roster of the children in care. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Feb 21, 2023
Type BFeb 15, 2023InspectionRecords & paperwork
Reporting requirements §101212(b)(1)(A)
Based on record review & director statement she became acting director on 1/9/23. Supporting documents including transcripts were not received by the regional office until 1/27/23. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Feb 15, 2023
Type BFeb 15, 2023InspectionTraining & qualifications
Staff health screening and personnel requirements §101216(g)(2)
Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. Staff #1 does not maintain a health screening report in their facility file. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Feb 28, 2023

Complaint investigations

Not substantiatedAug 29, 2024Complaint investigationreceived Jul 10, 2024
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.
SubstantiatedJun 27, 2024Complaint investigationreceived Apr 5, 2024
Substantiated allegation:
Staff commingles day care children.
1 citation issued during this investigation, listed under Citations.
Not substantiatedMay 30, 2024Complaint investigationreceived Mar 15, 2024
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.
SubstantiatedMay 30, 2024Complaint investigationreceived Mar 15, 2024
Substantiated allegation:
Unqualified staff providing care to day care children.
1 citation issued during this investigation, listed under Citations.
Not substantiatedMay 30, 2024Complaint investigationreceived Mar 18, 2024
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.
Not substantiatedApr 15, 2024Complaint investigationreceived Jan 23, 2024
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.
Not substantiatedJun 15, 2023Complaint investigationreceived Apr 25, 2023
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.
1 citation issued during this investigation, listed under Citations.
Not substantiatedSep 1, 2022Complaint investigationreceived Jun 7, 2022
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.

About this center

Licensed capacity32 children
License typeChild care center (preschool)
License statusClosed
Licensed sinceMar 17, 2021
ClosedSep 1, 2025
LicenseeSunnyside Learning Center Preschool & Daycare
Last administratorRafat Ilaian
State facility #376105033

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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 376105033 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.