Schaumburg · Licensed center
The Goddard School
- Large center, licensed for 187 children.
- A Goddard School franchise. The brand is owned by Sycamore Partners, a private-equity firm.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 3 of its 4 licensing inspections since November 2017.
Of the 123 Chicago-area centers with 4 licensing inspections, 22% had rules cited at 3 of them, as this center did. 59% had rules cited at all 4, 2% at none.
Licensing inspections
May 20, 20251 citation
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(k)(1)
Nov 6, 20192 citations
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
Nov 17, 20172 citations
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- December 11, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since November 2017 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 10, 2025. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
- Most serious
- Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.
May 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 20, 2025
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(k)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 419523 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2019 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · November 6, 2019
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 419523 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2017 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · November 17, 2017
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation corrected
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 419523 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
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
- 1001 E Woodfield Rd
- License
- license issued (il)
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "THE GODDARD SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60173 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 419523).
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 goddardschool.com/…/schaumburg/schaumburg
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 sycamorepartners.com
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 goddardschool.com/about
The private-equity firm Sycamore Partners lists Goddard Systems as a current investment. sycamorepartners.com
Goddard’s own site says “All Goddard Schools are independently owned and operated.” goddardschool.com
Large means the biggest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.