Child Care Center
✓ Licensed
The Learning Experience
Tinton Falls, NJ
· Monmouth County
4059 Asbury Avenue,
Tinton Falls, NJ 07753
Quick Facts
Capacity
167 children
Age Range
0 - 13 years
Subsidized Program
Participates
State Rating
3
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Contact Information
📞 (732) 643-9900
Licensed Child Care Center
Active License
License Number
131100222
License Issued
Apr 8, 2026
Active Through
Apr 8, 2029
Issued By
New Jersey Department of Children & Families
District Office
New Jersey Dept of Children and Families - Office of Licensing
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About the Provider
We believe that each child deserves to grow and learn at their own pace. TLE provides the tools that help our children develop to their greatest potential. State of the art early learning centers located in eighteen states offering a comprehensive curric
Hours of Operation
- Monday06:30 AM - 06:30 PM
- Tuesday06:30 AM - 06:30 PM
- Wednesday06:30 AM - 06:30 PM
- Thursday06:30 AM - 06:30 PM
- Friday06:30 AM - 06:30 PM
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed
Inspection/Report History
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| Inspection Date | Type | Reinspection / Rule | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-25 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2026-06-11 | Complaint | No | Center Inspection |
| 2026-04-08 | Record Retrieval,Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2026-03-18 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2026-02-11 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2026-01-07 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2025-12-03 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-12-01 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2025-10-30 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2025-09-29 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-09-25 | Renewal,Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2025-08-05 | Re-Inspection,TA Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2025-07-01 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2025-05-29 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2025-04-22 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2025-03-07 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2025-02-24 | Other | No | Center Inspection |
| 2025-01-30 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2024-11-12 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2024-11-04 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2024-10-04 | Other | No | Center Inspection |
| 2024-08-13 | Other | No | Center Inspection |
| 2024-04-09 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2024-03-26 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2024-02-20 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2023-07-25 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2023-05-03 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2023-05-02 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2023-04-11 | Complaint | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2023-04-11 | Complaint | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2023-04-11 | Violation | 3A:52-7.8(a)(4) | Based on complaint ensure that staff wash their hands with soap and running water after diapering. - Handwashing requirements are as follows: staff members shall wash their hands with soap and running water immediately |
| 2023-04-11 | Violation | 3A:52-4.3(d) | Ensure that adequate staff/child ratios are maintained at all times throughout the center. In Room #134 there were 14 children: six 4-year-olds and eight 5-year-olds. Two staff were required and one was present. - The following staff/child ratios shall apply during rest or sleep, when the criteria listed in 3A:52-4.3(d) 1, 2, and 3 are met:Age Staff/Child RatioUnder 18 months - 1:1018 months to under 2 ½ years - 1:122 ½ years and above - 1:20 |
| 2023-04-11 | Violation | 3A:52-7.8(a)(1)(v) | Based on complaint ensure that children wash their hands immediately after outdoor play. - Handwashing requirements are as follows: the center shall ensure that children three months of age and older wash their hands with soap and running water immediately after outdoor play. |
| 2023-04-11 | Violation | 3A:52-7.8(a)(4)(vi) | Based on complaint ensure that staff wash their hands after coming into contact with nasal excretions. - Handwashing requirements are as follows: staff members shall wash their hands with soap and running water immediately after coming into contact with blood, fecal matter, urine, vomit, nasal secretions, or other body fluids or secretions. |
| 2023-04-04 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2023-03-16 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2023-03-02 | Complaint | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2023-03-02 | Complaint | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2023-03-02 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(r) | Ensure the health, safety, and well-being of the children served. Ensure that the staff are engaging with crying or upset children. Retrain staff on engagement with children in early childhood programs. - The center shall take any steps required by the Office of Licensing to correct conditions in the building or center that may endanger the health, safety, and well-being of the children served. |
| 2023-03-02 | Violation | 3A:52-4.3(a)(1) | Ensure that adequate procedures for tracking children are adhered to at all times throughout the center. - The center shall develop and implement an Office of Licensing-approved method to keep track of the location and ensure the safety of all children at all times when under the center’s supervision, including the transfer of supervision from and to parents during arrival and departure and the utilization of off-site locations, including playgrounds and field trips. |
| 2023-01-30 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2023-01-25 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-12-30 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-12-30 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-12-30 | Violation | 3A:52-7.10(a) | Based on report, ensure that all reportable injuries and illnesses are reported to OOL as required. - The director, sponsor, or sponsor representative, upon learning that an enrolled child or staff member at the center has been diagnosed as having contracted or is suspected of having a reportable disease, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.1(d), shall report this knowledge by the next working day to the local health department. |
| 2022-11-23 | Renewal | No | Center Inspection |
| 2022-11-23 | Renewal | No | Center Inspection |
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 3A:52-4.6(a) | Ensure that the center completes and maintains on file a Staff Records Checklist designated by OOL. - The center shall maintain on file a Staff Records Checklist designated by the Office of Licensing, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.1(b), indicating that the center has obtained documentation of the applicable staff education and experience, as specified in 3A:52-4.6(b) through (d). |
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 3A:52-4.10(b)(1) | Ensure that all staff submit a CARI background check upon renewal. - When the center applies for a new or renewal license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall submit to the Department the completed CARI consent forms for all staff members who are or will be working at the center on a regularly scheduled basis. Within two weeks after a new staff member begins working at the center, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall submit to the Department a completed CARI consent form for the new staff member. |
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 3A:52-4.11(a)(1) | Ensure that all staff, the sponsor and/or the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required for the center's license renewal which is dated after 1/1/2021. - As a condition of securing a license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall ensure that a Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) fingerprint background check is completed for himself or herself, and for all staff members at least 18 years of age who are or will be working at the center on a regularly- scheduled basis, to determine whether any such person has been convicted of a crime, as specified in P.L. 2000, c. 77 (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-6.10 to 6.17). The sponsor or sponsor representative and each staff member shall complete the electronic fingerprinting process through the vendor authorized by the State to conduct CHRI background checks through the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 3A:52-4.6(c)(3) | Ensure that the group teacher meets the required qualifications as specified in the manual. Provide documentation for 2 group teachers. - For early childhood programs, the following shall apply: the group teacher shall meet the requirements for experience and education |
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(i)(5)(i) | Complete and submit a DCF Drinking Water Testing Checklist and Statement of Assurance and a copy of the center's water testing completed by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection. - Environmental condition precautions are as follows: at the time of the initial application, any renewal application, relocation of an existing licensed center and, in the discretion of the Office of Licensing, any other time, the applicant or facility operator shall certify in writing that the center provides a potable water supply provided by a public community water system. If the facility is supplied by a public community water system, the applicant or facility operator shall provide documentation of water testing conducted by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection for water testing for lead and copper from all faucets and other sources used for drinking water or food preparation and at least 50 percent of all indoor water faucets utilized by the center. |
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 3A:52-4.5(c)(2)(ii) | Ensure that the director designee completes the Understanding Licensing training provided by OOL. - The director or his or her designee(s) shall be on the premises at all times when the center is operating and the designee shall complete staff development in understanding licensing rules as provided by the Office. |
| 2022-11-01 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2022-09-21 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2022-09-21 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2022-09-20 | Violation | 3A:52-4.3(a)(1) | Based on report, ensure that adequate procedures for tracking children are adhered to at all times throughout the center. - The center shall develop and implement an Office of Licensing-approved method to keep track of the location and ensure the safety of all children at all times when under the center’s supervision, including the transfer of supervision from and to parents during arrival and departure and the utilization of off-site locations, including playgrounds and field trips. |
| 2022-09-20 | Violation | 3A:52-4.8(a)(1) | Based on report, retrain the named staff on supervising and tracking children. The named staff is no longer employed at the center. - Topics of orientation training shall include supervising and tracking all children, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.3(a). |
| 2022-08-15 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-06-27 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-05-25 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-05-25 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-03-23 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-03-23 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-03-23 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(a)(10) | Ensure that all toxic substances are inaccessible to the children. - Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: all corrosive agents, insecticides, bleaches, detergents, polishes, any products under pressure in an aerosol spray can, and any toxic substance shall be stored in a locked cabinet or in an enclosure located in an area not accessible to the children. |
| 2022-03-23 | Violation | 3A:52-6.2(a)(1) | Ensure that the center has an adequate supply of materials to meet the daily activity needs of the children and the program. Provide 5 areas with 5 activities in each area in the toddler rooms. - The center shall provide a supply of age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate program equipment including play equipment, child-size furniture and supplies that are sufficient to meet the daily activity needs of the children and the program. |
| 2022-03-23 | Violation | 3A:52-6.4(i) | Cease the use of pacifier straps or other types of attachment devices. - Children shall not use pacifiers with straps or other types of attachment devices. |
| 2022-03-23 | Violation | 3A:52-5.2(a)(5) | Ensure that all exits and egress areas are unobstructed and that the emergency exit doors are easily operable. Ensure a 3 foot exit aisle is maintained in room 112. - The center shall be permitted to obtain a valid fire safety inspection certificate issued by the municipality in which it is located, based on a fire inspection conducted within the preceding 12 months, and submit a copy of the certificate to the Office of Licensing in lieu of a CO or CCO, if the center serves only children 2 ½ years of age or older and is located in a public school building that is used as a public school. |
| 2022-02-09 | Violation | 3A:52-4.6(c)(1) | Ensure that the group teacher meets the required qualifications as specified in the manual. - For early childhood programs, the following shall apply: for all centers, the head teacher or consulting head teacher shall meet the qualification requirements specified in one of the seven options set forth in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.6(c) for education and experience. |
| 2022-02-09 | Violation | 3A:52-4.6(a) | Ensure that the center completes and maintains on file a Staff Records Checklist designated by OOL. - The center shall maintain on file a Staff Records Checklist designated by the Office of Licensing, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.1(b), indicating that the center has obtained documentation of the applicable staff education and experience, as specified in 3A:52-4.6(b) through (d). |
| 2022-02-09 | Violation | 3A:52-4.11(a)(1) | Ensure that the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required. - As a condition of securing a license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall ensure that a Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) fingerprint background check is completed for himself or herself, and for all staff members at least 18 years of age who are or will be working at the center on a regularly- scheduled basis, to determine whether any such person has been convicted of a crime, as specified in P.L. 2000, c. 77 (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-6.10 to 6.17). The sponsor or sponsor representative and each staff member shall complete the electronic fingerprinting process through the vendor authorized by the State to conduct CHRI background checks through the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| 2022-02-09 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(o)(1) | Ensure that at least two staff have current first aid and CPR certifications and are present at all times at the center. - First aid requirements are as follows: at least two staff members who have current certified basic knowledge of first aid principles and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), as defined by a recognized health organization (such as the American Red Cross), shall be in the center at all times when enrolled children are present. |
| 2022-02-09 | Violation | 3A:52-3.4(a) | Ensure that the center has a current comprehensive general liability insurance policy and maintains the documentation on file. - The sponsor or sponsor representative shall secure comprehensive general liability insurance coverage for the center and shall maintain on file a copy of the insurance policy or documentation of current insurance coverage. |
| 2022-02-09 | Violation | 3A:52-5.2(a)(5) | Provide a current fire certificate as required. - The center shall be permitted to obtain a valid fire safety inspection certificate issued by the municipality in which it is located, based on a fire inspection conducted within the preceding 12 months, and submit a copy of the certificate to the Office of Licensing in lieu of a CO or CCO, if the center serves only children 2 ½ years of age or older and is located in a public school building that is used as a public school. |
| 2022-02-09 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(n)(1) | Ensure that the center conducts fire drills at least once per month during each session provided at the center, including one fire drill annually that is conducted during nap time. - Fire prevention requirements are as follows: the center shall conduct fire drills at least once a month, as specified in the NJUFC. The center shall ensure that fire drills are conducted during each session provided at the center and that one fire drill per year is conducted during nap time, if applicable. |
| 2022-02-04 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2022-02-04 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2022-02-04 | Violation | 3A:52-7.8(a)(1)(ii) | Ensure that children wash their hands immediately after using the toilet or having their diaper changed. - Handwashing requirements are as follows: the center shall ensure that children three months of age and older wash their hands with soap and running water immediately after using the toilet or having diapers changed. |
| 2022-02-04 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(a)(16)(i) | Repair and/or paint the walls and other surfaces as required. Repair chipped paint around doorways of bathrooms throughout center. - Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: walls shall be painted or otherwise covered whenever there is evidence of excessive peeling or chipped paint. |
| 2021-10-19 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2021-09-21 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2021-08-20 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2021-04-30 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2020-02-12 | Renewal | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2020-01-08 | Renewal | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2019-12-12 | Renewal | No | Center Inspection |
| 2019-06-26 | Complaint | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2019-05-23 | Complaint | No | Center Inspection |
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