# Montclair Community Play Center (MCPC), Oakland CA: Philosophy

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/oakland/montclair-community-play-center-mcpc-oakland-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/oakland/montclair-community-play-center-mcpc-oakland-ca

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## In short

Montclair Community Play Center (MCPC) is a preschool in Oakland, CA. Its AI Score is 23 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Preschool |
| Address | 5815 Thornhill Dr, Oakland, CA 94611, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 9 AM to 3 PM · Fri 9 AM to 12 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (510) 339-7213 |
| Rating | 5.0 across 4 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Philosophy, Preschool and Teachers |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 5815 Thornhill Dr, Oakland, CA 94611, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 5815 Thornhill Dr, Oakland, CA 94611 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM · Fri 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Montclair Community Play Center (MCPC) | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (510) 339-7213 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Alumni list | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Application process | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Covid19 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Diversity | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Donate | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Enroll | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Facilities | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Land acknowledgement | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Online auction | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Parent education programs | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Parent participation | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Philosophy | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Preschool | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Preschool education | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Program introduction | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Programs header | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Spanish teacher | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Summercamp | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Summer camps | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Super bowl numbers | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Teachers | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Toddler notes f23 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Toddler parent ed current | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Toddler parent ed current 1 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Toddler parent ed spring24 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Toddler parent ed w24 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Toddler playtime | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Turtle camp | From their website | Business website |
| Team | Thornhill Dr, CA |  | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/mcpckids | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/mcpckids | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Website | http://www.mcpckids.org/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 26 services Montclair Community Play offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Philosophy |  |  |  | From their website |
| Preschool |  |  |  | From their website |
| Teachers |  |  |  | From their website |
| Alumni list |  |  |  | From their website |
| Covid19 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Parent participation |  |  |  | From their website |
| Diversity |  |  |  | From their website |
| Program introduction |  |  |  | From their website |
| Programs header |  |  |  | From their website |
| Summercamp |  |  |  | From their website |
| Summer camps |  |  |  | From their website |
| Super bowl numbers |  |  |  | From their website |
| Toddler notes f23 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Toddler parent ed current |  |  |  | From their website |
| Toddler parent ed current 1 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Application process |  |  |  | From their website |
| Spanish teacher |  |  |  | From their website |
| Toddler parent ed w24 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Enroll |  |  |  | From their website |
| Facilities |  |  |  | From their website |
| Toddler parent ed spring24 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Online auction |  |  |  | From their website |
| Donate |  |  |  | From their website |
| Toddler playtime |  |  |  | From their website |
| Turtle camp |  |  |  | From their website |
| Land acknowledgement |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

- Philosophy: 100% of reviews (AI guess)
- Preschool: 100% of reviews (AI guess)
- Teachers: 100% of reviews (AI guess)


## The team

1 person is named on this page.


### Thornhill Dr, CA

| Field | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |


## Visiting Montclair Community Play

Address: 5815 Thornhill Dr, Oakland, CA 94611, USA. Phone: (510) 339-7213. Hours: Mon to Thu 9 AM to 3 PM · Fri 9 AM to 12 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Parking and getting in

Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park

Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Payakk | Thai restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Thornhill Coffee House | Cafe | 1 min walk |
| 7-Eleven | Convenience store | 2 min walk |
| Taps and Takeout | Restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Merriewood Stairs (lower) | Tourist attraction | 3 min walk |
| Thornhill Dr & Mountain Blvd | Bus stop | 5 min walk |


## Reputation

5.0 average across 4 reviews: Google 4. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)

Not enough review detail to summarise confidently. (AI guess, from 4 reviews.)


### Press

Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you


### Awards

Add an award so AI can name it


### Directories

Listed on 3 of the 20 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Alignable | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Not listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Facebook | Listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Listed |


## Questions people ask


### membership, worth it or not


### Are the hours on Google right for Montclair Community Play in Oakland?


### cheaper than Montclair Community Play in Oakland without it being sketchy?


### do they shut Saturdays


### best preschool in Oakland


### how much is a first visit around here


### torn between this place and Open Minds Early for Play-based preschool education?


### Calling Montclair Community Play, or is there a better way?


### does this place ever have cancellations


### anything I should sort out before a first class at Montclair Community Play?


### people keep recommending Montclair Community Play, what for?


### paying in instalments, is that possible here


### Coffee near Montclair Community Play on Thornhill?


### address for this place, anyone have it?


### where does this place post updates


## The AI Score: 23 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Oakland preschools run 23 to 34. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Montclair Community Play scores 23. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Montclair Community Play |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 39 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 36 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Poor |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 58 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 31 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 81 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a preschool: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Montclair Community Play |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Montclair Community Play Center (MCPC) | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.mcpckids.org/ | Subject of this page |
| Thornhill Dr, CA | Person | #team-thornhill-dr |  |  |
| Oakland, California | City | #city |  | City Montclair Community Play is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the preschools in Oakland, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best preschools in Oakland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/oakland/preschool
- Best businesses in Oakland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/oakland


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJLU25fIeHj4ARybsx_QQVF_M (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [2] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/turtle-camp (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [3] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/apply (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [4] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/covid19 (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [5] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/diversity (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [6] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/contribute (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [7] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/enroll (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [8] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/facilities (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [9] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/land-acknowledgement (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [10] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/online-auction (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [11] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/toddler (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [12] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/alumni-list (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [13] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/parentparticipation (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [14] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/philosophy (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [15] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/preschool (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [16] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/program-introduction (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [17] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/programs-header (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [18] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/spanish-teacher (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [19] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/summercamp (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [20] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/summer-camps (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [21] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/super-bowl-numbers (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [22] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/teachers (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [23] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/toddler-notes-f23 (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [24] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/toddler-parent-ed-current (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [25] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/toddler-parent-ed-current-1 (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [26] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/toddler-parent-ed-spring24 (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [27] mcpckids.org, https://www.mcpckids.org/toddler-parent-ed-w24 (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [28] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 21, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [29] mcpckids.org, http://www.mcpckids.org/ (accessed Sep 21, 2026)