Just Kids
Licensed Center in Gilmer, Texas. License #1218206, issued November 18, 2011.
- Address
- 7819 Gardenia Rd, Gilmer, TX 75645
- Phone
- (903) 801-0462
- Licensed capacity
- 51 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:00 AM-06:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
Programs listed with the state: Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Part Time Care.
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
No Texas Rising Star rating
Texas Rising Star is voluntary, and a program joins it by applying. It is tied to accepting child care scholarships, so most programs that are not in it never applied rather than failed. Roughly three in five licensed programs in Texas have no rating.
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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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 3,719 standards at Just Kids between November 29, 2021 and August 13, 2026 and recorded 37 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 | 3 | 363 | 4 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 327 | 18 |
| Personnel | 3 | 436 | 2 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 1 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 2 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 3 | 134 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 338 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 222 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 224 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 132 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,708 of those standards. The remaining 11, including 10 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 6 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on August 13, 2026, and 37 citations.
- 7High
- 8Medium High
- 18Medium
- 4Medium Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing the 25 most recent of 37. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High August 13, 2026 Correction verified August 24, 2026
746.605(11): Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization
At the inspection, two out of four children's records did not have the emergency care authorization complete with name, address and telephone number.
- Medium High August 13, 2026 Correction verified August 24, 2026
746.605(6): Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact
At the inspection, two out of four children's records reviewed did not include the address to the emergency contact.
- Medium August 13, 2026 Correction verified August 24, 2026
746.503: Provide Parents With Copy of Policies
At the inspection, the parent did not comply on the admissions paperwork to have received a copy of the operational policies.
- Medium High September 4, 2025 Correction verified October 23, 2025
746.1301(a)(6)(A): Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 30 Annual Training
At the inspection, the director had not clocked any training hours for the prior training year.
- High September 4, 2025 Correction verified September 24, 2025
746.5101(a): Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
At the inspection, the last fire inspection has expired and was conducted10/ /2023.
- Medium September 4, 2025 Correction verified September 17, 2025
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
At the inspection, two infants feeding instruction forms were out of date and have not been updated within 30 days.
- Medium High September 4, 2025 Correction verified October 23, 2025
746.1301(a)(5)(A): Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training
At the inspection, 4 staff training records were reviewed and staff did not have clocked training hours for the prior training year.
- High September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 10, 2024
746.901(8): Required Personnel Records - Proof of Request for background check
At the inspection, 2 out of 5 personnel records reviewed did not include the proof of the background check results.
- Medium September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 14, 2024
746.501(a)(30): Written Operational Policies - Support inclusive services
At the inspection, the operational policy was reviewed and did not include information related to supporting inclusive services to children with special needs.
- Medium September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 15, 2024
746.1311(a): Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required
At the inspection, the director's training certificates were not available for review.
- Medium Low September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 10, 2024
746.901(4): Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)
At the inspection, 1 out of 4 personnel records did not include a notarized affidavit.
- Medium High September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 10, 2024
746.605(13): Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement
At the inspection, one out of five children's records reviewed did not have the special care statement in the admissions paperwork.
- Medium Low September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 10, 2024
746.901(7)(B): Required Personnel Records - signed dated statement that employee received personnel policies
At the inspection, 1 out of 4 personnel records did not include the signed employee statement receiving personnel policies.
- Medium September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 10, 2024
746.901(7)(A): Required Personnel Records - signed dated statement that employee received operational policies
At the inspection, 1 out of 4 personnel records reviewed did not include the signed employee statement regarding receiving the operations policies.
- High September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 10, 2024
746.605(12): Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization
At the inspection, 2 out of 5 children's records reviewed did not include the information required for the emergency care aurthorization and needed address and telephone numbers.
- Medium September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 10, 2024
746.605(11): Required Admission Information - Physician Information
At the inspection, 2 out of 5 children's records reviewed did not include the health care information.
- Medium September 24, 2024 Correction verified October 15, 2024
746.1309(a): Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required
At the inspection, the staff training records/certificates were not available for review.
- Medium High November 6, 2023 Correction verified December 15, 2023
746.1301(a)(5)(A): Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training
At the inspection, annual training for the staff has not been completed for the training year.
- High November 6, 2023 Correction verified November 28, 2023
746.501(a)(29): Written Operational Policies - Unassigned Epinephrine Auto-Injectors
At the inspection, the operational policy did not include information related to using unassigned epinephrine auto-injectors, in case of an emergency.
- High November 6, 2023 Correction verified December 6, 2023
746.5101(a): Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
At the inspection, the current fire inspection is dated 1/ 22/2022 and expired in January of 2023.
- Medium November 6, 2023 Correction verified November 28, 2023
746.501(a)(18): Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity
At the inspection, the operational policy did not include information related to the promotion of physical activity and did not include A-G from the minimum standards.
- Medium November 6, 2023 Correction verified November 27, 2023
746.501(a)(30): Written Operational Policies - Support inclusive services
At the inspection, the operational policy did not include procedures for inclusive services to children with special needs.
- Medium High November 18, 2022 Correction verified December 12, 2022
746.605(13): Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement
At the inspection 5 out of 5 children's records reviewed did not include a special care statement.
- Medium High November 18, 2022 Correction verified November 18, 2022
746.2507(1): Activities for Toddlers - Outdoor Play
At the inspection, the teachers explained the opportunity to go outside is not given to the youngest group of children. The operation corrected at inspection by taking the children outside in the afternoon.
- Medium November 18, 2022 Correction verified December 12, 2022
746.801(5): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Employees' Attendance
At the inspection 4 out of 4 personnel records reviewed did not any attendance records.
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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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