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Kids ‘r’ Kids Learning Academy

A licensed child care center in New Braunfels, Texas 78132

2230 Independence Dr, New Braunfels, Texas 78132. (830) 856-2727.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Texas’s risk levels
Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 61 child care providers in Comal County had 4.

20 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 15, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for, at the inspection on Sep 2, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment, at the report to the state on Jul 18, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

9 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

9 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 9, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Caregivers Must Wear Gloves When Handling Blood or Bodily Fluids

    “During the investigation, it was determined that a caregiver did not wear gloves when handling an injury that involved blood.”

    Rule 746.3425(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2026.

Sep 2, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for

    “Neither caregiver in the school-age room provided the correct number of children in care. They both stated they had 29 children when there were 28 children.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 2, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 15, 2026.

Aug 6, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Maximum Group Size 13 or More Children

    “In the school-age room, there were two caregivers with 42 children in care.”

    Rule 746.1609. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 6, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 2, 2026.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “Two out of ten children’s files did not have an up-to-date immunization record available to review.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 13, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 2, 2026.

Jun 17, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “During the investigation, it was found that one staff member who had unsupervised access to children did not have first aid certification.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 7, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 29, 2026.

Aug 26, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “During the DFPS investigation, the operation admitted that the 12-18 month room was left out of ratio several times.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 25, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 26, 2025.

Aug 29, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Label Bottles/Cups

    “Two infant bottles were observed with only the first name. This was corrected when the staff added the last initial.”

    Rule 746.2419(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2024.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “An infant play toy was observed with dirt/dust accumulated on it. This was corrected when the toy was cleaned. A few toy bins in a room were observed to be dirty. This was corrected when the bins were cleaned.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2024.

Jul 18, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    The inspectors’ words, 147 words

    “Based on the video, a child was acting out and as the child was being spoken to by the teacher about this behavior, the child was seen hitting the teacher several times on the back and arm. The caregiver continued to pick up papers off the floor that the child throwing on the floor. The child continued to hit the teacher. When the caregiver turned around towards the child, she tried to grab for the child?s arm that was hitting her but missed and that is when the child hit the teacher in the face, the teacher reacted by swinging her hand that was holding the papers toward the child and the papers hit the child in the face causing a slight red mark on her cheek from the papers only. There was no bruise or bump. NOTE: The operation was proactive by immediately terminating this employee.”

    Rule 746.2805(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 16, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 29, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 31, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “Two purses were found in rooms accessible to children. This was corrected when the purses were put up out of children’s reach.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 31, 2023.

Jan 17, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “An infant saucer was observed in the room to be dirty with no child in it. A bookshelf in a room was observed to have dirt inside of it. There were several plastic containers in two rooms that were cracked and sharp to the touch for children. These were corrected during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2023.

All 33 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 15, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 9, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 2, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 6, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 17, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 26, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Aug 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 22, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 29, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 14, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 18, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 19, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 15, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 13, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 8, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 31, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 25, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 3, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 2, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 25, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 17, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 6, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 18, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 26, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 25, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 27, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 27, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 6, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 20, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 235 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 13 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Texas Rising Star: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 61 child care providers in Comal County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 9.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 61 in Comal County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
The Children’s Courtyard, Inc.10
Kids ‘r’ Kids Learning Academy This child care provider9
The Goddard School6
Lisa Kay BoothNot given
Y School Age @ Veramendi1
Y School Age @ Lamar Elementary0
Jessica Leister1
Gruene Tree Learning Center3
Jabberwocky Journey Learning Academy, LLC1
Through A Child’s Eyes3
Tiffany Hasty1
Early Learning Cottage3

What the record doesn’t say

  • Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
  • Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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