Kids Zone Salado
Licensed Center in Salado, Texas. License #1775398, issued October 16, 2023.
- Address
- 1025 Soaring Eagle Way, Salado, TX 76571
- Phone
- (254) 271-5700
- Licensed capacity
- 126 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:00 AM-06:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Skill Classes, 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 2-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 22, 2025. From the state's provider report of September 12, 2026.
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 5,641 standards at Kids Zone Salado between May 25, 2023 and August 18, 2026 and recorded 6 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 | 5 | 596 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 4 | 445 | 1 |
| Personnel | 4 | 617 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 5 | 270 | 0 |
| Activities | 5 | 180 | 0 |
| Infants | 5 | 450 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 4 | 88 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 76 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 4 | 80 | 0 |
| Naptime | 4 | 48 | 0 |
| Field trips | 4 | 44 | 0 |
| Get well care | 4 | 108 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 4 | 180 | 0 |
| Health practices | 5 | 565 | 2 |
| Safety practices | 4 | 308 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 5 | 375 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 5 | 480 | 0 |
| Pools | 4 | 102 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 4 | 271 | 0 |
| Transportation | 5 | 245 | 0 |
The table adds up to 5,627 of those standards. The remaining 14, including 2 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
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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 15 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on September 15, 2026, and 6 citations.
2 of those visits began with Kids Zone Salado 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
- 5Medium High
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 6. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High August 18, 2026 Correction verified August 31, 2026
746.605(15): Required Admission Information-Child's allergies and Completed Food Allergy Plan
Required admission information regarding child allergies were missing for 4 children enrolled.
- Medium High October 8, 2024 Corrected at inspection
746.1301(a)(1)(A): Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Orientation
Two employees did not have the required orientations in their files. Director printed them out and put into the files.
- Medium High February 15, 2024 Corrected at inspection
746.3417(3): Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering
During the monitoring inspection it was observed that a caregiver was changing diapers and not having the children wash their hands afterwards. This was corrected at inspection when the correct steps were explained to the caregivers and the caregiver begin to follow them.
- High January 31, 2024 Correction verified February 15, 2024
746.2805(8): Prohibited Punishments - Restrictive device for time out
During the investigation it was found that the operation was putting children in a high chair, for 1-2 min, as a form of discipline.
- Medium High October 2, 2023 Corrected at inspection
746.3417(4): Children Handwashing After Outdoor Activities
During the 3rd initial inspection it was observed that a classroom of children came inside, after playing outside, and did not wash their hands before being seated in their high chairs for lunch. This was corrected at inspection when the caregivers washed their hands after Child Care Licensing Inspector asked them to.
- Medium High July 19, 2023 Corrected at inspection
746.3421(b): Infant Handwashing - Raised to Sink
After an infant's diaper was changed they were not raised to the sink to wash their hands with soap and running water until after Child Care Regulation asked them to do so, once asked, infant did wash their hands at the sink. Corrected at inspection.
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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 7, 2026. Full methodology.
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