Venture Free Children's Center
Venture Free Children's Center is a licensed child care center in Woodside, CA, licensed for up to 42 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2026. No visit in that period produced a citation, which puts it among the 34% of ranked California centers with no citations. It has too few inspections so far for a statewide comparison.
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Common questions
Has Venture Free Children's Center had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
How much does Venture Free Children's Center cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Venture Free Children's Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in San Mateo County, which includes Woodside, was $1,947 a month for infants (about $2,460 today), $1,619 a month for preschoolers (about $2,040 today) and $730 a month for school-age children (about $920 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Venture Free Children's Center?
The licensee is Venture Free Foundation, The, and the administrator listed with the state is Julie Pedersen.
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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 414005374 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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