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Castle Head Start

2050 ACADEMY, Atwater, CA 95301

Day Care Center · Licensed · Licensed since Feb 6, 2006

Serious concerns

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Repeat — cited again within 12 months: CCR 101229(a)(1) +2 more (Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision — Based on the record review and interviews conducted, it was confirmed that C1 was left unsupervised in the playground for seven minutes without adult supervision. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of children in care.) from 2026-01-08

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Type A citations mean an immediate risk to health, safety, or personal rights; Type B citations mean a violation that could become one if not corrected. This grading is assigned by CCLD, not GoldiCheck.

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5 violations shown (1 outside lookback window)

CCLD Facility SearchSearch Facility #243808261
Type A(3)
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CCR 101229(a)(1)Facility Evaluation Report

Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision — Based on the record review and interviews conducted, it was confirmed that C1 was left unsupervised in the playground for seven minutes without adult supervision. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of children in care.

2026-01-08
CCR 101223(a)(3)Facility Evaluation Report

Personal Rights — Based on record review and interviews conducted, it was confirmed that Staff #2 (S2) violated Child #1 (C1)’s Personal Rights by causing physical pain, intimidated, and threat C1. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of children in care.

2025-02-27
CCR 101223(a)(2)Facility Evaluation Report

Personal Rights — Based on record review and interviews conducted, C1 started having fever at 8:20 AM at 100.9, at 12:30 PM, C1’s fever was 102.4 and by 1:15 PM, C1 fever was at 103.2. During the interviews, staff were not aware of the protocol if a child involved is extremely ill and if the child’s parent is not able to be reached. Staff were also not able to identify the next appropriate protocol to take. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of children in care.

2024-02-08
Type B(2)
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CCR 101223(a)(2)Facility Evaluation Report

Personal Rights — Based on the record review and interviews conducted, it was determined that staff failed to ensure that C1’s personal rights were protected by not ensuring C1’s safety. C1 should not have been allowed to climb up from the bottom of the slide, which resulted in C1 losing balance, falling, and sustaining an injury. This failure poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.

2026-03-19
CCR 101229(a)(1)Facility Evaluation Report

Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision — Based on record review and interviews conducted, it was confirmed that due to the lack of supervision, Child #1 (C1) had access to the off-limits. This poses a potential risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of children in care.

2025-11-03
How we rate this daycareCalifornia CCLD records

California pre-grades every violation itself: Type A means an immediate risk to a child's health, safety, or personal rights; Type B means a violation that, if not corrected, could become that same immediate risk. We never escalate above the state's own grade.

🔴 Serious concerns — any of:

  • The license is on probation — CCLD requires the facility to comply with specific terms and conditions to prevent revocation of its license
  • A Type A violation is on record — CCLD's own most serious grade, meaning an immediate risk to a child's health, safety, or personal rights

🟡 Watch carefully — any of:

  • A Type B violation is on record — CCLD's own lesser-risk grade, meaning a violation that, if not corrected, could become an immediate risk to a child's health, safety, or personal rights

🟢 Clean

Actively licensed, with no violations in your lookback window.

Worth knowing: California's public records don't always say whether a specific violation was later fixed, so we don't discount a Type A's severity by guessing at correction status — CCLD's own definition notes a Type A citation "will always be issued, even if the violation is corrected on the spot." A single Type A moves a facility to Serious concerns, matching CCLD's own grading directly.

Data sourced from California CCLD (CCLD Facility Search). Last updated: Sep 14, 2026. GoldiCheck is not affiliated with CCLD. Always verify with the CCLD Facility Search record (search Facility #243808261).

Castle Head Start — inspection record · Atwater, CA