Fernandez Elementary Head Start
Licensed Center in San Antonio, Texas. License #1493466- 6151, issued August 23, 2012.
- Address
- 6845 Ridgebrook St, San Antonio, TX 78250
- Phone
- (210) 397-1944
- Licensed capacity
- 54 children
- Licensed for
- Pre-Kindergarten
- Hours
- 07:30 AM-04:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
- Website
- family-service.org
Programs listed with the state: Meals Provided, Snacks Provided.
Openings
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This says nothing about the quality of this program. What the state has assessed about it is the inspection record below.
Where this is
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What inspectors checked
Texas HHSC records how many individual standards it evaluated in each area of the rules, and how many it found violated. Across 22 areas it checked 3,880 standards at Fernandez Elementary Head Start between December 9, 2021 and September 17, 2026 and recorded 5 violations. Those correspond to the citations listed above that were recorded from 2021 onward; anything older than that is in the citation list but not in these counts.
The 22 areas, one by one
| Area of the rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 4 | 481 | 1 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 326 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 441 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 4 | 88 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 72 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 4 | 44 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 2 | 26 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 4 | 179 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 337 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 210 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 4 | 298 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 2 | 136 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 117 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,871 of those standards. The remaining 9, including 4 of the violations, were recorded under the state's own catch-all heading, “Individual Standards Evaluated”, which names no area. They are reported here rather than folded into an area above, because the state did not say which area they belong to and we are not going to decide for it.
A high number of standards checked is not a compliment and a low one is not a criticism: how many apply depends on a program's size, its ages served and what the inspector was there to look at. We publish the two counts the state published and do not turn them into a score. This data begins in 2021, which is later than the inspection history above it.
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State inspection record
HHSC records 14 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on September 23, 2026, and 5 citations.
2 of those visits began with Fernandez Elementary Head Start reporting something to the state itself rather than HHSC finding it. We publish that because it is part of the record and the state records it separately, not because it is good or bad: a program with none may have had nothing to report. 3,674 of the 12,933 programs listed here have at least one.
- 2High
- 2Medium
- 1Medium Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 5. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium September 23, 2025 Correction verified October 13, 2025
746.501(a)(18)(B): Written Operational Policies - Duration
The operational policy was reviewed to be missing a written statement regarding promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity: The duration of physical activity at your operation, both indoor and outdoor. The type of physical activity (structured and unstructured) that children may engage in at your operation. Each setting in which your physical activity program will take place. The criteria you will use to determine when extreme weather conditions pose a significant health risk that prohibits or limits outdoor play. A plan to ensure physical activity occurs on days when extreme weather conditions prohibit or limit outdoor play.
- Medium October 15, 2024 Correction verified November 7, 2024
746.1309(e): Documented Annual Training- Required Content
At time of inspection five out of five staff files did not contain the following required annual topics: Emergency preparedness, Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials, and preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases.
- High April 12, 2024 Correction verified May 15, 2024
746.307(b)(4): Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
Operation failed to report to childs parents immediately after leaving child unspervised on 4.11.24, parents were notified until 4.15.24.
- High April 12, 2024 Correction verified May 15, 2024
746.1205(a)(4): Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
During the investigation, it was verified a child was found unsupervised in the hallway on 4.11.24.
- Medium Low January 19, 2024 Correction verified January 19, 2024
746.303(b): Report Number of Employees
Operation did not enter information by due date 1/15/24.
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About this record
Every figure on this page comes from the Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation open data published at data.texas.gov, reproduced as the state recorded it. We do not grade, score or rank programs. A citation is a finding by a state inspector on a given day; it is not a judgment about a program today, and the correction status beside each one is part of the record. This page reflects data retrieved on November 8, 2026. Full methodology.
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