Cupertino · Licensed center

Bright Horizons Children's Center

Small center, licensed for 24 children.
Run by a for-profit business, which holds the license.
Shortlist has found no website for it yet.

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 1 of its 6 licensing inspections under this license since February 2022.

Of the 29 Bay Area centers with 6 licensing inspections, 38% had rules cited at 1 of them, as this center did. 21% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Jun 5, 2025No rules cited

Jun 20, 2024No rules cited

Dec 29, 2022No rules cited

Apr 7, 2022No rules cited

Mar 16, 2022No rules cited

Feb 2, 20221 citation

“Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision - (a)The licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the children's needs. (1) No child(ren) shall be left without the supervision of a teacher at any time, except as specified in Sections 101216.2(e)(1) and 101230(c)(1). Supervision shall include visual observation. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: A child was found by a staff member unattended in the grass area outside the toddler yard on January 25, 2022. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, and personal rights to children in care. An immediate civil penalty of $500 was assessed.”
CCR 101229(a)(1)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing

Last visit: June 5, 2025
On file: 6 visits since February 2022 — 5 cited nothing
Most serious: Type A — Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision - (a)The licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the children's needs. (1) No child(ren) shall be left without the supervision of a teacher at any time, except as specified in Sections 101216.2(e)(1) and 101230(c)(1). Supervision shall include visual observation. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: A child was found by a staff member unattended in the grass area outside the toddler yard on January 25, 2022. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, and personal rights to children in care. An immediate civil penalty of $500 was assessed. · February 2, 2022

California CDSS publishes the full investigation narrative for a complaint, including its disposition, and classifies a citation Type A — an immediate risk to a child — or Type B.

Jun 2025 Licensing visit nothing cited

Jun 2024 Licensing visit nothing cited

Dec 2022 Licensing visit nothing cited

Apr 2022 Licensing visit nothing cited

Mar 2022 Licensing visit nothing cited

Feb 2022 Licensing visit 1 finding

Licensing visit · February 2, 2022

CCR 101229(a)(1) · Type A

Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision - (a)The licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the children's needs. (1) No child(ren) shall be left without the supervision of a teacher at any time, except as specified in Sections 101216.2(e)(1) and 101230(c)(1). Supervision shall include visual observation. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: A child was found by a staff member unattended in the grass area outside the toddler yard on January 25, 2022. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, and personal rights to children in care. An immediate civil penalty of $500 was assessed.

State report

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Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.

Details

(408) 366-1963

Address: 10253 North Portal Avenue
License: 434400083, active
Chain: Bright Horizons
Owner: Public shareholders (NYSE: BFAM)

The state licenses this address more than once, to the same licensee.

The day-care-center license is published separately, with its own license and its own inspection record:

Bright Horizons Children's Center

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State record

From California CDSS Community Care Licensing’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.

Details

Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 ccld.dss.ca.gov
Who runs it — Checked October 2026 ccld.dss.ca.gov
Chain — Checked October 2026 brighthorizons.com
Owner — Checked October 2026 sec.gov/…/bfam-20251231.htm

Bright Horizons is a public company. Its annual report to the SEC for 2025 (Form 10-K, filed February 2026) lists its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BFAM. sec.gov

Small means the smallest quarter of Bay Area’s 439 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 30 children. Medium is 31 to 75; large is 76 to 312.