Smart Start Child Care

A licensed child care center in San Antonio, Texas 78210

1514 S Gevers St, San Antonio, Texas 78210. (210) 534-4646.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Bexar County: 5
1 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
7 inspections on record
3-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 768 child care providers in Bexar County had 5.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 18, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher, at the inspection on Apr 3, 2025

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

6 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023												Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov

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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

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.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Feb 3, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

Janitorial duties

“During the course of the investigation, it was determined that a caregiver mops the floor of the classroom while infants are in their highchairs.”

Rule 746.1203(3)(C). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 2, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 11, 2026.

Apr 3, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher

“The fire extinguisher in the car was not secured in the passenger compartment. Note: This was corrected with the director secured the fire extinguisher with a plastic safety strap in the passenger compartment.”

Rule 746.5617(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 3, 2025.
Documented Annual Training- Required Content

“Three out of four staff members did not have the required training topics in the following: Emergency preparedness, preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases, understanding building and physical premises safety and handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials.”

Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 17, 2025.

Dec 30, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

Director Certificate Not Renewed

“Updated director credentials were not provided timely.”

Rule 746.1057. Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 30, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 24, 2025.

Apr 18, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

Required Admission Information-Completed Food Allergy Plan

“One of the four children files was missing food allergy information. One of the four children files was missing special care information. One of the four school age children were missing permission to ride. NOTE: Corrected at inspection”

Rule 746.605(16). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2024.
Children’s Records - Immunizations

“One of the four children files didn’t have an updated immunization record.”

Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 20, 2024. Correction verified: May 9, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years

May 4, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

Orientation-Minimum Standards

“One of the four caregivers files evaluated did not have completed orientation training.”

Rule 746.1303(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 18, 2023. Correction verified: May 17, 2023.
Documented Annual Training - Caregivers of Children Under 24 Months Required

“Two of the four files reviewed did not have the annual SIDS/Shaken Baby/Abusive Head Trauma/Early Brain Development annual training completed.”

Rule 746.1309(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 18, 2023. Correction verified: May 17, 2023.
Documented Annual Training- Required Content

“Two of the four files reviewed did not have the administering medication annual training completed. Three of the four files reviewed did not have the food allergy traning completed. One of the four files reviewed did not have the hazardous materials training completed.”

Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 18, 2023. Correction verified: May 17, 2023.

Sep 12, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric first aid with rescue breathing

“The director’s First Aid card was not current and expired on 08/20/2022.”

Rule 746.1301(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 19, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2022.
Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

“One out of four children’s records evaluated were missing the required address information for the child’s emergency contact. This was corrected at inspection when the director contacted the parent and updated the emergency contact information in the child’s file.”

Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 12, 2022.
Documented Annual Training- Required Content

“Three personnel folders were missing certificates of training for required annual training topics in Handling, Storing, and Disposing of Hazardous Materials.”

Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 19, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2022.

All 10 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Mar 18, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Mar 11, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Feb 17, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Feb 3, 2026	Report to the state	1 deficiency cited
Jun 19, 2025	Report to the state	No violation found
Apr 3, 2025	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Dec 30, 2024	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Apr 18, 2024	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
May 4, 2023	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Sep 12, 2022	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 22, 2007.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 35 children.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

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

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 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: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

Among 768 child care providers in Bexar County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 6.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 768 in Bexar County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Smart Start Child Care This child care provider	6
Green Acres Child Care Center	6
Blessed Sacrament Academy Child Development Center	7
Learning With Grace Educational Child Care	4
Mustard Seed Academy, Inc.	5
La Mision Child Care and Kid Kamp	8
Learning With Grace Educational Child Care #2	8
Highlands Learning Academy	4
Y School Age @ Japhet	3
Y School Age @ Ywla Primary	0
Aimee Barajas	5
Chenise Cook	1
S Presa Head Start	0

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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