Santa Clara · Licensed center
Stratford School
- Large center, licensed for 264 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 6 licensing inspections since December 2021.
Of the 29 Bay Area centers with 6 licensing inspections, 24% had rules cited at 2 of them, as this center did. 21% had none cited.
Licensing inspections
Feb 10, 20251 citation
“Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision(a)(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: C1 was left unattended in inside Classroom A1 on 2/3/2025, which poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.”
CCR 101229(a)(1)
Oct 20, 20221 citation
“101700.3 Lead Testing Written Directives (b)(1) a result with values of 5.5 parts per billion (ppb) or greater shall be deemed an Action Level Exceedance. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Lead water testing conducted at Stratford School produced Action Level Exceedance of 92.0 ppb for Faucet "S" which poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.”
101700.3(b)(1)
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing
- Last visit
- April 28, 2026
- On file
- 6 visits since December 2021 — 4 cited nothing
- Most serious
- Type B —
Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision(a)(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: C1 was left unattended in inside Classroom A1 on 2/3/2025, which poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.
· February 10, 2025
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 1 finding
Licensing visit · February 10, 2025
CCR 101229(a)(1) · Type B
Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision(a)(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: C1 was left unattended in inside Classroom A1 on 2/3/2025, which poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.
Oct 2022 Licensing visit 1 finding
Licensing visit · October 20, 2022
101700.3(b)(1) · Type B
101700.3 Lead Testing Written Directives (b)(1) a result with values of 5.5 parts per billion (ppb) or greater shall be deemed an Action Level Exceedance. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Lead water testing conducted at Stratford School produced Action Level Exceedance of 92.0 ppb for Faucet "S" which poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.
Shortlist replaces people’s names in the state’s text with initials. This is done by rule, not by hand, so it can miss a name or shorten a word that isn’t one. The state’s report, linked on each row, has the original.
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
- Address
- 890 Pomeroy Avenue
- License
- 434410807, active
Run Stratford School? Correct or add anything here, free.
Add what is missingSources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
State record
From California CDSS Community Care Licensing’s published reports, last checked October 11, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License ccld.dss.ca.gov
Large means the biggest quarter of Bay Area’s 439 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 76 to 312 children. Small is 8 to 30; medium is 31 to 75.