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Transparency scorecard

Virginia

Grade B

75/100 points · Ranked #10 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Virginia Department of Education, Office of Child Care Licensing.

Score breakdown

Record depth
About 1833 years of inspection history publicly retrievable.
25/25
Downloadable data
Data is reachable via a public search form or portal API, not a bulk dump.
10/20
Severity levels
State does not publish a usable severity/risk tier for citations.
0/15
Complaints published
Complaint records with dispositions (4,047 on file).
15/15
% with any inspection
96.2% of providers have at least one inspection on file (5,271 of 5,479).
15/15
Access friction
No CAPTCHA, IP block, or auth wall on the primary public records path.
10/10

Licensing portal with deep visit history and complaint outcomes; license terms published.

What this grade means

Does well: Deep inspection history and published complaint dispositions.

Where it falls short: No per-violation severity tiers.

Browse Virginia providers on KinderFax. Official portal: Search for Child Care. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.