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Whittier Head Start

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Ages
Ages 2–5
Teacher ratio
1:12 (CA min)

1761 Walnut Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90813

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Licensing & safety record

✓ Clean licensing record

No citations or complaint visits on file with state licensing as of 2025-09-29. Last licensing visit: 2/6/2025 (5 total).

Source: California Dept. of Social Services, Community Care Licensing (updated 2025-09-29). View official inspection reports →

About this preschool

Whittier Head Start is part of LBUSD's comprehensive Early Head Start and Head Start programs providing free part-day and full-day center-based care and education for children birth to five. The program offers family engagement, health, nutrition, mental health services, and early intervention with 23 locations across Long Beach and Signal Hill.

Philosophy
We embrace the provision of services through a multi-generational approach that builds on the premise that parents are their children's first and most important teacher.
Ages served
Birth to five (Early Head Start for birth to three, Head Start for ages 3-5)

Programs

  • •Early Head Start
  • •Head Start
  • •Home-based services for pregnant women and families with children birth to three
  • •Family engagement and leadership training
  • •School readiness
  • •Health services
  • •Nutrition services
  • •Mental health services
  • •Early intervention services
  • •Potty training assistance

Highlights

  • ✓Free part-day and full-day care
  • ✓23 locations across Long Beach and Signal Hill
  • ✓Priority given to families meeting income eligibility, with foster children, experiencing homelessness, with children with disabilities
  • ✓Comprehensive multi-generational approach

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