Verify a Missouri Teacher (state certificate) license

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Live. We query the board directly for every check and the nightly canary is passing.

How Missouri Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in Missouri is licensed by the MO 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 name license_type status issued anniversary capacity ages address city county phone reports.

Board note: childcare_provider via MO-OOC-CHILDCARE: DESE Office of Childhood Child Care Facility Search on healthapps.dhss.mo.gov (ASP.NET WebForms behind Imperva; plain httpx with a browser UA answers). Name search → dgSearchEngine grid (DVN per row) → Facility.aspx?LID=<DVN> detail (type, License Effective / Anniversary date, capacity, inspection reports). Number claims go straight to the detail page. Family / group homes are in the person's name: verified only in the claimant's own name; centers → ambiguous_match; '6 OR FEWER' / exempt listings are not licences. Teachers are DESE educator certification (not covered).

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 Missouri Teacher (state certificate) license by API

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

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