The Apple Tree School

“Background checks for staff who are no longer employed by the center have not inactivated.”

“There were 18 children, ages 11 months to 6 years old, with one caregiver. The specified age group was 3 years old.”

“The director is not documenting the days and hours worked.”

“A child was combined with children that were more than 18 months older than the youngest child in the group on the following days: 12/8/25, 12/9/25, 12/10/25, 12/12/25, 12/15/25, 12/16/25 and 12/23/25. On these days the youngest child in the group was combined with children between the ages of 3-11 years old.”

“The center was out of compliance with ratios for when 12 or fewer children are in care on the following days: 12/3/25, 12/4/25, 12/5/25, 12/11/25, 12/19/25, 12/23/25, 1/7/26, 1/8/26, 1/9/26 and 1/12/26. On these days there was one caregiver present with 8-12 children, ages 11 months to 6 years old.”

“The caregiver in charge did not have access to the children's records.”

“A 6 month old infant was sleep in a crib with a boppy pillow and a blanket.”

“Four of the five employee files reviewed did not documentation showing that preservice was completed.”

“Four of the five employee files reviewed did not have documentation that orientaion was completed.”

“A child was observed laying in the doorway during naptime. The child was removed from blocking the doorway.”

“Of the six personnel records evaluated, two had not completed 8 clock hours of pre-service training prior to being counted in the child/staff ratio.”

“One class was watching a movie that did was not related to the planned activity. All screen time must be related to planned activities and is limited to 1 hour per day. This was corrected at inspection when the movie was turned off.”

“The director who is also the van driver is not current with their transportation safety training,”

“Of the six children's records evaluated, two lacked the results of a vision and hearing screening.”

“Of the six personnel records evaluated, three lacked training in First Aid.”

“A copy of the current driver's license for the van driver is not on file. This was corrected at inspection.”

“Of the six personnel records evaluated, three lacked a notarized affidavit.”

“Of the six personnel records evaluated, two lacked training in CPR.”

“Of the six personnel records evaluated, two lacked documentation of how the education requirement was met,”