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Terry Mendoza

A registered child care home in San Antonio, Texas 78251

8515 Wood Arbor, San Antonio, Texas 78251. (210) 529-2663.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 13 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: Medium 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?

13 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

4 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 21, 2026: 3 deficiencies cited.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

13 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

13 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 21, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The emergency practice drill form indicts the last fire drill was done in June 2026.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 15, 2026.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “One out four admission forms reviewed was missing the emergency contact information.”

    Rule 747.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 15, 2026.

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “The operational policy was missing the parents’ rights information.”

    Rule 747.501(9). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 15, 2026.

Aug 30, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The fire drill has not been practice or recorded on the form 7263 used for emergency practices.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2024.

  • Sheltering drill for Severe Weather- 4 times in a calendar year

    “The severe weather drill has not been practice or recorded on the form 7263 used for emergency practices.”

    Rule 747.5005(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2024.

  • Lock-down drill 4 times in a calendar year

    “The lock-down drill has not been practice or recorded on the form 7263 used for emergency practices.”

    Rule 747.5005(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 20, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 12, 2024.

  • Must Have at Least One 3A-40BC Dry Chemical Fire Extinguisher or Fire Extinguisher Approved by Fire Marshal

    “The fire extinguisher at the operation was not the correct size.”

    Rule 747.5103. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 12, 2024.

Dec 22, 2023: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Written Operational Policies - Safe Sleep for Infants

    “The operational policies did not include information on safe sleep practices.”

    Rule 747.501(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement

    “Two children’s records had incomplete special needs statements.”

    Rule 747.605(13). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 28, 2023.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “One child’s record had an incomplete emergency contact.”

    Rule 747.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 28, 2023.

  • Primary Caregiver Annual Training - Required Special Topics without specific hours

    “The primary caregiver lacked training in the following required training topics: Emergency Preparedness, Preventing and Controlling the Spread of Communicable Diseases, Preventing and Responding to Emergencies Due to Food Allergies, Understanding building and physical premises safety, Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials”

    Rule 747.1309(d). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 31, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 29, 2024.

  • Household Members Qualifications - Orientation

    “A household member did not have orientation to the Registered Child Care Home”

    Rule 747.1401(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 28, 2023.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The operational policies did not include the promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity.”

    Rule 747.501(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Dec 30, 2021: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Primary Caregiver -30 Hours Annual Training

    “The primary caregiver care was missing 11 of the 30 required training hours.”

    Rule 747.1303(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 14, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2022.

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, Relocation and Sheltering Procedures

    “The emergency prepardness plan was not available for review.”

    Rule 747.5003(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 4, 2022.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The fire drill was not done for the month of November. Note: This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver completed a fire drill with the children.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 30, 2021.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “Three children did not have emergency care facility information.”

    Rule 747.605(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2022.

All 4 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 21, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Aug 30, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Dec 22, 2023Inspection6 deficiencies cited
Dec 30, 2021Inspection4 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Registered Child-Care Home, permit issued Aug 18, 2009.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 12 children.
Source:

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.
  • 0 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

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 13.
Source:

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
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Terry Mendoza This child care provider13
Little Leaps Academy7
United Kidz Academy San Antonio11
Pinnacle Kids Academy6
T.o.p. Learning Center24
Bree Avilez0
Elizabeth C. Hutchinson5
Amal Hatim Midhat12
Life Church Learning Center - West Campus12
Evers Head Start Elementary School3
Little Treehouse Early Learning Center #213
Lashonna Vallare2
Tiny Treasures Daycare & Learning Center1

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 Nov 5, 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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