We congratulate these early care and education providers for piloting Contra Costa’s child care Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). These programs are pioneering challenging yet vital work to ensure Contra Costa’s children receive high-quality child care.

There are four ratings a program can receive:

APPROACHING Quality Standards
IMPLEMENTING Quality Standards
MASTERING High Quality Standards
EXCEEDING High Quality Standards

Programs were rated on elements including child observation and curriculum planning, children’s developmental and health screening, teacher education level, teacher-child relationships, and environment. The final ratings represent the average across all elements.

The ratings listed below are each site’s first rating. All programs are participating in professional development trainings, site quality improvements, and educational advancements designed to improve quality. These sites will be re-rated in 2017. Click on a site’s name to see their rating for each element.

QRIS cohort II

Site Program Name	Program Rating
Angels Montessori Preschool	Exceeding High Quality Standards
Busy Bees Childcare	Implementing Quality Standards
CSB – Balboa	Mastering High Quality Standards
CSB – Crescent Park Children’s Center	Mastering High Quality Standards
CSB – Las Deltas	Mastering High Quality Standards
CSB – Los Arboles	Exceeding High Quality Standards
De Colores FCC & PreK	Mastering High Quality Standards
First Baptist Head Start – East Leland	Implementing Quality Standards
First Baptist Head Start – Lido Square	Mastering High Quality Standards
First Baptist Head Start – Odessa	Implementing Quality Standards
First Baptist Head Start – Woods Manor	Mastering High Quality Standards
Gigi’s Precious Hearts Daycare	Approaching Quality Standards
Home Away From Home	Implementing Quality Standards
Hummingbird Preschool Academy	Approaching Quality Standards
Kinder College Preschool-Childcare	Approaching Quality Standards
King’s Kids Academy	Implementing Quality Standards
Little Darling Angels Academy	Implementing Quality Standards
Martinez Early Childhood Center	Mastering High Quality Standards
MDUSD – Hidden Valley PreK	Mastering High Quality Standards
MDUSD – Shores Acres School Readiness PreK	Mastering High Quality Standards
New Beginnings Childcare	Approaching Quality Standards
Pearlite Montessori House of Children	Mastering High Quality Standards
Precious Babies	Approaching Quality Standards
Sonja’s Quality Day Care	Approaching Quality Standards
Tiny Toes	Mastering High Quality Standards
Unity Council – Ceasar Chavez Head Start	Mastering High Quality Standards
WCCUSD – Bayview	Implementing Quality Standards
WCCUSD – Chavez	Implementing Quality Standards
WCCUSD – Grant	Mastering High‐Quality Standards
WCCUSD – Highland	Mastering High Quality Standards
WCCUSD – King	Mastering High Quality Standards
WCCUSD – Lincoln	Mastering High Quality Standards
WCCUSD – Nystrom	Mastering High Quality Standards
WCCUSD – Peres	Mastering High Quality Standards
Wiley World, LLC	Implementing Quality Standards
YMCAEB – 8th Street CDC	Implementing Quality Standards