• Violation

  110-300-0356(5) · In each classroom or well-defined space, the maximum group size and ratio of center staff members to children, including children related to staff or the licensee, must be: (a) Infants (birth through eleven months of age) with a: (i) Maximum group size of eight with a ratio of one staff to four children (1:4); (ii) Maximum group size of nine with a ratio of 1:3; (b) Toddlers (twelve through twenty-nine months of age) with a: (i) Maximum group size of fourteen with a ratio of 1:7; (ii) Maximum group size of fifteen with a ratio of 1:5; (c) Preschoolers (thirty months through six years of age who are not attending kindergarten or elementary school) with a maximum group size of twenty with a ratio of 1:10; and (d) School-age children (5 years through twelve years of age who are enrolled in or attending kindergarten or elementary school) with a maximum group size of thirty with a ratio of 1:15.

  (5)(c) Licensor observed more than twenty children on the preschool playground at one time. The director reduced the group size to twenty while this licensor was on-site.

  Open Not marked corrected in the state record

  Open / not marked corrected.

Disposition: 1 valid issue(s)