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UCDS The Studio

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What the state has found

The state cited rules at 1 of its 3 licensing inspections since September 2023. It lists no valid complaint about this center.

Of the 405 Seattle-area centers with 3 licensing inspections, 20% had rules cited at 1 of them, as this center did. 33% had rules cited at all 3, 11% at none.

Licensing inspections

Dec 2, 2025No rules cited
Sep 30, 2024No rules cited
Sep 26, 20232 citations

  • “back deck door needs to remain unlocked from the inside.”

    WAC 110-300-0166(3)(a)

  • “Some staff need to renew Food handler training, child abuse/neglect training and safe sleep training.”

    WAC 110-300-0106(12), WAC 110-300-0106(4)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Washington DCYF

Last visit
December 2, 2025
On file
3 visits since September 2023 — 2 cited nothing
Most serious
Serious — back deck door needs to remain unlocked from the inside. · September 26, 2023

Washington DCYF publishes the licensor’s own observation and a risk level for every citation it issues at a licensing visit, with the inspection report attached as a PDF.

Dec 2025 Licensing visit nothing cited Report (PDF)
Sep 2024 Licensing visit nothing cited Report (PDF)
Sep 2023 Licensing visit 2 findings

Licensing visit · September 26, 2023

Emergency preparation and exiting

WAC 110-300-0166(3)(a) · Serious

back deck door needs to remain unlocked from the inside.

Training requirements

WAC 110-300-0106(12) / 110-300-0106(4) · Serious

Some staff need to renew Food handler training, child abuse/neglect training and safe sleep training.

Report (PDF)

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Openings, Working Connections subsidy, cost, teaching approach, and ratios and staff aren’t on this page.

A day here

Hours
8:15 AM to 3:00 PM, year round
Updates for parents
Uses the brightwheel app
Schedule
full-week (5 days/week, priority-filled) and part-week (2-3 days/week, if openings remain)

Policies

Enrollment
Wait pool and lottery; a place is offered only through an enrollment request submitted in the brightwheel app after attending a virtual information session; joining the wait pool does not guarantee enrollment

Details

(206) 547-8237

Website
ucds.org
Address
5301 8th Ave NE
License
PL-12050, active

Nearby

The eight closest of the 19 other licensed centers in ZIP 98105

All in ZIP 98105

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State record

From Washington DCYF’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.

A day here

  • Updates for parents — Checked August 2026 ucds.org
  • Hours, Schedule — Checked September 2026 ucds.org
  • Calendar — Checked June 2026 ucds.org

Policies

  • Enrollment — Checked September 2026 ucds.org

Details

Small means the smallest quarter of Seattle-area’s 859 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 6 to 40 children. Medium is 41 to 114; large is 115 to 323.

The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.

Nearby

The other centers’ visit lines are from Washington DCYF’s published reports as Shortlist read them on October 9, 2026.