First Step
Licensed Center in Longview, Texas. License #515799, issued January 24, 2001.
- Address
- 2307 Kingston Dr, Longview, TX 75604
- Phone
- (903) 295-9999
- Licensed capacity
- 96 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:30 AM-06:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
Programs listed with the state: Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.
Openings
This program has not told us about its openings. We only publish what a program confirms itself, so there is nothing here yet. Ring them to ask.
Texas Rising Star
Texas Rising Star 4-star of a possible 4
A quality rating the state awards after an on-site assessment. Four stars is the highest.
In effect since October 3, 2025. From the state's provider report of October 29, 2026.
Where this is
A map of this address loads when you ask for it. Nothing is requested from the map host until then, so opening this page does not tell anyone which program you were reading about.
The pin is where the US Census geocoder placed this address. About one in eight is interpolated along a street rather than resolved to a building, so treat it as the right block rather than the right doorway. How we source this.
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 3,080 standards at First Step between October 27, 2021 and December 5, 2025 and recorded 4 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 | 2 | 234 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 326 | 0 |
| Personnel | 2 | 306 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 2 | 108 | 0 |
| Activities | 1 | 36 | 0 |
| Infants | 1 | 90 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 1 | 22 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 1 | 19 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Naptime | 4 | 48 | 0 |
| Field trips | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Get well care | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 4 | 52 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 1 | 45 | 0 |
| Health practices | 5 | 564 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 5 | 376 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 225 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 2 | 192 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 1 | 68 | 0 |
| Transportation | 2 | 83 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,048 of those standards. The remaining 32, 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.
Ask about an opening
This goes to First Step and nobody else. They reply to you directly: we do not sit in the middle of it, and we never pass your details on or sell them.
Tell me about new inspections
One short message each time Texas HHSC records an inspection here, saying that it happened and linking to the record. We do not tell you what the inspector found: a finding without whether it was corrected is misleading, and that pair belongs on the page rather than split across an email.
We ask for nothing but the address, and we send a confirmation first. Your list is never shown to this program, never sold, and every message has a link to stop. An inspection is routine: programs are visited on a schedule and after a complaint, and a visit is not a finding.
State inspection record
HHSC records 33 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on December 5, 2025, and 4 citations.
2 of those visits began with First Step 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.
- 1High
- 1Medium High
- 2Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 4. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High January 8, 2024 Correction verified February 8, 2024
746.2429: Covering Infant's Head or Crib
During the investigation video footage was observed showing a caregiver putting blankets over children's heads during naptime.
- Medium January 8, 2024 Correction verified February 8, 2024
746.2905(1): Children Not Required to Sleep - May Not Force Child to Sleep
During the investigation video footage was observed showing a caregiver forcibly pushing children's heads down and patting them a little roughly in order to try to make them lie down on their mats at naptime.
- Medium High January 27, 2022 Corrected at inspection
746.2407: Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps
During inspection two infants were observed in high chairs not strapped in the high chairs. This was corrected at inspection.
- Medium January 27, 2022 Corrected at inspection
746.2905(1): Children Not Required to Sleep - May Not Force Child to Sleep
During inspection a child was observed at nap time on his mat with his blanket covering his head asleep. This was corrected at inspection.
Do you have a child enrolled here?
If First Step confirms you are enrolled, you can tell us what you actually pay. We publish price ranges by city and age so other families know what to expect, and the only reliable source for that is people paying it.
There are no reviews on this site and we are not adding them. We publish the state's inspection record and facts families confirm, not opinions. Your address is never shown publicly; it goes to the program so they can confirm you, and nowhere else.
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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