Program Name: WHISPERING PINES PRE-SCHOOL, INC.    License/Registration ID: 365313


 Program Overview
Contact Name: Amy J. Frank Contact Title: Director
Program Type: Day Care Center Status: Open
School District: Amsterdam
Site Address: Map
40 Henrietta Blvd., Amsterdam, NY 12010
First Licensed/Registration Date: Aug 27, 2008
Current Registration Period: Aug 27, 2022 - Aug 26, 2026
Phone: (518) 843-3003
Fax: (518) 875-6389
Total Capacity: 315
-Infants: 8
-Toddlers: 12
-Preschool: 274
-School-Age: 21
Open Child Care Slots*:
This information was self reported to OCFS on 6/26/2023 11:49:26 AM
-Infants: 0
-Toddlers: 0
-Preschool: 0
-School-Age: 0

*Important Note: This self reported information on open child care slots can quickly change.


Please contact this program for the most current openings.


Care available during non-traditional hours: No
Removed from referral list: No
This facility is approved to administer medications. This program is located in a school.
This facility has Non-Patient Specific Auto Injectors.

For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact
Office: Albany Regional Office
Phone: (518) 402-3038
For additional details and to view the checklist used during an inspection, please click on the Inspection ID links below. Inspection checklists are generated per inspection type and reason. Also note, that any regulatory requirement can be assessed and cited during an inspection and as a result, may not be reflected on the inspection checklist. These items would be reflected in the program's compliance history that is posted.

 Inspection History: (Inspections in the past 24 months)

Date Inspection Type Inspection ID Inspection Result  
Feb 6, 2026 Annual Unannounced 2026-I-ARO-003927 No violations cited for this Inspection
Nov 21, 2025 Self-Report 2025-I-ARO-116090 No violations cited for this Inspection
Oct 24, 2025 Self-Report 2025-I-ARO-110170 No violations cited for this Inspection
Aug 11, 2025 Fire Safety - Other 2025-I-ARO-058178 No violations cited for this Inspection
Aug 11, 2025 Self-Report 2025-I-ARO-058072 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jul 28, 2025 Self-Report 2025-I-ARO-054199 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jul 22, 2025 Monitoring 2025-I-ARO-055322 No violations cited for this Inspection
May 22, 2025 Complaint (Substantiated) 2025-I-ARO-042866 Violations Found
May 16, 2025 Self Reported Serious Incident 2025-I-ARO-042116 No violations cited for this Inspection
Mar 31, 2025 Complaint (Substantiated) 2025-I-ARO-030630 Violations Found
Mar 26, 2025 Complaint (Substantiated) 2025-I-ARO-029450 Violations Found
Jan 8, 2025 Annual Unannounced 2025-I-ARO-004941 No violations cited for this Inspection
May 20, 2024 Monitoring 2024-I-ARO-046512 No violations cited for this Inspection
May 20, 2024 Annual Unannounced 2024-I-ARO-004762 No violations cited for this Inspection
May 2, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-ARO-046628 No violations cited for this Inspection
Additional Inspection History

*Inspections may be conducted outside of program operating hours and/or off-site(where inspector was not on premises where care is provided) for the following reasons:
-Record/File Review
-Interviewing of Staff
-Or Other Investigative Reasons

 Compliance History
Date of Last Inspection: Feb 6, 2026 Currently uncorrected violations: None
Date Regulation Description Compliance Status as of last inspection
May 22, 2025 418-1.12(an) Staff must take steps to prevent a child's exposure to the foods to which the child is allergic. Corrected
Mar 31, 2025 418-1.8(a) Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Corrected
Mar 26, 2025 418-1.9(a) The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors. Corrected
Mar 26, 2025 418-1.9(b) The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems. Corrected
Mar 26, 2025 418-1.9(h) Physical restraint is prohibited. Physical restraint is the act of using force to extremely limit a child's body movements for a lengthy period of time. It involves holding a child against his/her will and putting pressure on the child's chest and/or extremities in an effort to significantly restrict his/her movement, thereby making it extremely difficult for a child to move. It may also involve holding a child flat on the ground and restricting his/her body from movement. Corrected
Mar 26, 2025 418-1.9(j) Corporal punishment is prohibited. For the purposes of this Subpart, the term corporal punishment means punishment inflicted directly on the body including, but not limited to, physical restraint, spanking, biting, shaking, slapping, twisting or squeezing; demanding excessive physical exercise, prolonged lack of movement or motion, or strenuous or bizarre postures; and compelling a child to eat or have in the child's mouth soap, foods, hot spices or irritants or the like. Corrected
Mar 26, 2025 418-1.9(m) Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited. Corrected
Mar 26, 2025 418-1.10(a) Any abuse or maltreatment of a child is prohibited. A day care center must prohibit and may not tolerate or in any manner condone an act of abuse or maltreatment by an staff, volunteer or any other person. An abused child or maltreated child means a child defined as an abused child or maltreated child pursuant to Section 412 of the Social Services Law. Corrected
Mar 26, 2025 418-1.10(c)(1) Child care center staff must personally make, or cause to be made, an immediate report to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment by telephone, followed by a written report within 48 hours, in the form and manner prescribed by the Office, to the child protective service of the social services district in the county in which the child resides. Corrected
Mar 26, 2025 418-1.13(a)(1) Staff and volunteers must be mature, of good character and possess suitable personal qualifications. Corrected
Mar 26, 2025 418-1.15(b)(14)(ii) The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident, Corrected
*Violations are posted on this web site after the inspection results have been finalized in a report mailed to the provider. Violations are listed here as 'Corrected' after the Office has verified corrections with the provider, and a letter confirming the corrections has been mailed to the provider.
For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact
Office: Albany Regional Office
Phone: (518) 402-3038

 Enforcement History
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The enforcement actions listed on this website only include denial, revocation or suspension of a child care program's license or registration. Fines are not shown on this website. OCFS stops referring families to the program if a program's license or registration is closed, revoked or suspended.

Other enforcement actions such as Corrective action plans and fines are not shown on this website.
Enforcement Actions since March, 2021: Yes