Verify a Washington Teacher (state certificate) license

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How Washington Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in Washington is licensed by the WA Childcare / Teacher Licensing. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: license_number provider_id license_name facility_type license_status license_type initial_license_date licensed_capacity primary_contact contacts complaints inspections license_history early_achievers hours flags.

Board note: childcare_provider only (teachers are OSPI, not covered). DCYF Child Care Check (Salesforce Visualforce, plain httpx, no captcha): GET /PSS_Search?q= carries the per-load Visualforce remoting tokens; POST /apexremote PSS_SearchController.getSOSLKeys(searchBy, facilityTypes, providerTypes ['DEL Licensed'], …) -> Account ids, queryProviders(ids) -> provider rows; GET /PSS_Provider?id= prints License Name/Number (PL-nnnnn), Provider ID, Facility Type, License Status/Type, contacts, complaints, inspections, licence history. The search box matches name / Provider ID / phone / city / zip, NOT licence numbers (an unmatched alphabetic term answers the whole register, 7,165 ids), so PL- numbers are found by searching the surname and matching the printed number. TLS chain lacks the GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 intermediate: shipped next to the connector. data.wa.gov was8-3ni8 lacks family homes, so the site is the primary. Holder rule: own-name home or printed Primary Contact -> verified; centre with a stranger -> ambiguous_match. Live 2026-11-04.

What a Teacher (state certificate) license check returns

Field check	Passes when
`license_number`	Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
`name`	Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
`license_type`	The record is a Teacher (state certificate) license, strictly (no near-miss types)
`status`	The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
`expires`	Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
`disciplinary_actions`	Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Verify a Washington Teacher (state certificate) license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "WA", "profession": "teacher", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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