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Next: Review the inspection history below and ask the provider what the records mean and what changed afterward.
Latest inspectionJune 17, 2026
Latest inspection with no recorded violationsJune 17, 2026
Summary
This summary covers 17 available inspections for AMERICAN MONTESSORI ACADEMY from March 4, 2022 through June 17, 2026.
Six inspections recorded violations, with six recorded violations in total.
The most recent recorded violation was on July 14, 2025 and involved parent rights, with a due date of August 1, 2025.
Supervision was a higher-concern topic that showed up in one inspection.
Four later inspections, from August 4, 2025 through June 17, 2026, showed no recorded violations, but the records do not say whether they were formal follow-ups.
At a glance
Total inspections
17
4 in last 12 months
Recorded violations
6
0 in last 12 months
Higher-concern violations
2
0 in last 12 months
Repeated topics
1
Last 36 months
Local comparison
17 total inspections vs 5 local median in 95678
Compared to 9 local facilities
Recorded violations per inspection
This provider
0.35
Local median
0
0.35This provider
0Local median
Inspections with higher-concern violations
This provider
12%
Local median
0%
12%This provider
0%Local median
Inspections with recorded violations
This provider
35%
Local median
0%
35%This provider
0%Local median
Repeated topics
This provider
1
Local average
0.11
1This provider
0.11Local average
Repeated topics
Topics that appeared in more than one inspection during the last 36 months. They may reveal a pattern worth examining.
Parent rights
Appeared across 2 inspections, with 2 recorded violations.
Reports to be provided to parents. (c)(1) A licensed child day care facility shall provide to the parents or guardians of each child receiving services in the facility copies of any licensing report that documents any Type A citation that represents an immediate risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of children in care as set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1596.893b.(2)Upon enrollment of a new child in a facility, the licensee shall provide to the parents or legal guardians of the newly enrolling child copies of any licensing report that the licensee has received during the prior 12-month period that documents any Type A citation that represents an immediate risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of children in care as set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1596.893b. This requirement was not met as evidenced by file review and interviews. This poses a potential risk to the health and safety of children in care if not corrected.
Teacher Qualifications and Duties. (j) Each teacher shall visually observe aides under his/her supervision whenever the aide is working with children, except as provided for in Sections 101216.2(e)(1) and 101230(c)(1). This requirement was not based on interviews with staff from the facility and the photography company, Lil' Angels. It was deternined that unqualified staff were not always overseen by a qualified teacher while teh children were taking pictures. This poses a potential threat to the health and safety of children in care if not corrected.
PERSONAL RIGHTS: The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: 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 This requirement was not met by a staff pounding a child on the back with her hand at nap time and preventing child from getting up. This is an immediate risk to a child. TYPE A citation issued
Admission Procedures and Parental and Authorized Representative's Rights: To enter and inspect the child care center in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 1596.857. This requirement was not met by the parent was not given access to the campus that his child attends. This is a potential risk to a child.
California Lead Action Level at Child Care Center (b) Testing results with (1)A values of 5.5 ppb or greater shall be deemed an Action Level Exceedance. This requirement is not met as evidenced by the facility has not gotten their water tested for lead according to Assembly Bill 2370 by January 1, 2023. This is a potential risk to children.
BUILDING AND GROUND: The child care center shall be clean, safe, sanitary and in good repair at all times to ensure the safety and well-being of children, employees and visitors. This requirement is not met as evidence by LPA's observed play equipment that is a square box with a plastic doom on top of it that has a crack it in, the plastic is split separating from each other that can be a risk to a child. The play structure is technically called a Tube Junction Cube. There is also a self made wooden house / box on the play ground that has rusted nails that are coming out of the splinter wood / the roof part of the house - box. These are a potential risk to a child