Palo Alto · Licensed center

Bright Horizons Palo Alto Square

Small center, licensed for 16 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 no rules at any of its 4 licensing inspections under this license since June 2022.

Of the 91 Bay Area centers with 4 licensing inspections, 36% had no rules cited at any of them, as this center did. 1% had rules cited at all 4.

Licensing inspections

Feb 18, 2025No rules cited

Dec 28, 2023No rules cited

Apr 27, 2023No rules cited

Jun 9, 2022No rules cited

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing

Last visit: February 18, 2025
On file: 4 visits since June 2022 — all of them cited nothing
Fixed?: Nothing was cited under this license, so there is nothing to correct. The other license at this address keeps its own record.
Most serious: Nothing was cited at any visit on file under this license. The other license at this address keeps its own record.

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.

Feb 2025 Licensing visit nothing cited

Dec 2023 Licensing visit nothing cited

Apr 2023 Licensing visit nothing cited

Jun 2022 Licensing visit nothing cited

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

(650) 493-3777

Address: 3000 El Camino Real #3-110
License: 434404366, active

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 Palo Alto Square

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Sources and dates

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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

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.