Northwest KinderCare
Licensed Center in San Antonio, Texas. License #189605- 747, issued February 5, 1987.
- Address
- 8980 Guilbeau Rd, San Antonio, TX 78250
- Phone
- (210) 680-4077
- Licensed capacity
- 100 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:30 AM-06:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
- Website
- kindercare.com
Programs listed with the state: Meals Provided, Snacks Provided, Drop-In Care, 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 3,636 standards at Northwest KinderCare between November 29, 2021 and August 5, 2026 and recorded 25 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 | 242 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 339 | 1 |
| Personnel | 3 | 472 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 4 | 216 | 1 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 74 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 4 | 80 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Get well care | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 2 | 26 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 4 | 179 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 339 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 232 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 2 | 150 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 2 | 135 | 0 |
| Transportation | 2 | 98 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,533 of those standards. The remaining 103, including 22 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.
What Northwest KinderCare says about itself
Discover KinderCare’s daycare, childcare, and preschool programs. Find a location near you and schedule a tour today.
Quoted from kindercare.com, read on October 25, 2026. These are the program's own words, not ours, and we neither check nor endorse them.
Ask about an opening
This goes to Northwest KinderCare 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 55 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on August 5, 2026, and 25 citations.
11 of those visits began with Northwest KinderCare 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.
- 6High
- 9Medium High
- 10Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 25. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High July 20, 2026 Correction verified August 5, 2026
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
During the investigation, it was determined that a child who swallowed a quarter was kept in care, even though they were vomiting repeatedly.
- Medium April 9, 2026 Correction verified April 22, 2026
746.3809: Medication No Longer Used
There were two medications that were expired.
- Medium High April 9, 2026 Correction verified April 22, 2026
746.3805(b)(1): Administering Medication - Original Container with Child's Name, Date
There were two children's medication that were not labeled with the date brought into the operation.
- Medium High April 9, 2026 Correction verified April 15, 2026
746.3401(a): Annual Sanitation Inspection
There was no updated annual sanitation inspection. Last health/sanitation conducted 04/01/2025.
- Medium April 9, 2026 Correction verified April 13, 2026
746.1309(e): Documented Annual Training- Required Content
There were 2 out of 10 staff's files audited that were missing annual trainings for Communicable Diseases. There were 1 out of 10 staff's files audited that was missing the annual training for Building Safety.
- Medium High May 1, 2025 Correction verified May 19, 2025
746.3407(8): Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner
The playground was observed with a wasp nest, multiple ant piles, and garbage on all three playgrounds while children were present.
- Medium May 1, 2025 Correction verified May 19, 2025
746.603(a)(3): Children's Records - Health Statement
Ten files were audited, 2 are missing current health stamens available for review during an inspection.
- Medium High March 17, 2025 Correction verified March 27, 2025
746.1315(a): Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.
At time of incindet a caregiver did not have a current CPR/First Aid certification.
- High October 28, 2024 Correction verified November 7, 2024
746.1205(a)(2): Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for
At time of inspection a PreK caregiver stated the class had ten children when their were eleven. This was corrected at inspection.
- High June 27, 2024 Correction verified August 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
Operation staff failed to ensure adequate supervision of all children in their care when a child exited the building and was on the playground unattended for at least one and a half hours.
- High June 27, 2024 Correction verified August 15, 2024
746.1201(4): AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited
This standard was found deficient as part of a DFPS Investigation.
- Medium High June 27, 2024 Correction verified August 15, 2024
746.1203(10): Responsibilities of Caregivers - Share Information with Incoming Caregivers
During a DFPS investigation, it was determined that operation staff failed to ensure that staff were informed of the number of children that should be present in a classroom when they came to assist during naptime, resulting in the operation failing to identify that a child was missing for over an hour and a half.
- Medium June 3, 2024 Corrected at inspection
746.1613(a): Reduction of child/caregiver naptime ratio by 50% allowed, If 13 or more children in care, children are 18 mo. or older and other standards met
During naptime in the Infant C classroom one caregiver was supervising seven children with the youngest being 16 months and the oldest being 19 months old. NOTED: This was corrected when the 16-month-old was moved to the mobile infant classroom.
- Medium June 3, 2024 Correction verified June 4, 2024
746.603(a)(4): Children's Records - Immunizations
One of the ten children files didn't have an updated immunization record.
- Medium June 6, 2023 Correction verified June 22, 2023
746.603(a)(4): Children's Records - Immunizations
During inspection, two out of ten children files needed updated immunization records.
- High May 22, 2023 Correction verified June 1, 2023
745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
On 5/22/2023, there were two people present at the operation pending background checks and in care of children. One person was in the infant classroom and the other was in the 2 & 3 year old classroom.
- Medium High January 2, 2023 Correction verified March 1, 2023
746.1203(3)(C): Janitorial duties
Based on the information gathered and interviews conducted at the time of the incident the caregiver was wiping down shelves, cleaning and sweeping not directly involved with teaching, care and supervision of the children.
- Medium High July 20, 2022 Correction verified August 12, 2022
746.4907(d): Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained
The Pre school and toddler playground were inspected to have less than 6 inches of mulch and rubber tile pieces.
- Medium High July 20, 2022 Correction verified August 2, 2022
746.1203(5): Responsibilities of Caregivers - Children in Control
The PreK 4 classroom children were observed out of control as children were running, hitting/throwing pillows at friends, not keeping hands to themselves, child flipping on the carpet, stuffing the sink with paper towels as the caregiver was getting ready to pass out snack. In addition to the caregiver passing out skittles for showing good behavior, and cleaning up the classroom.
- Medium July 20, 2022 Corrected at inspection
746.4135(b): Children's Products- Annual Certification
The Consumer Product Safety was last certified on 1.1.21. NOTE: This was corrected when the website was reviewed a CPS form was posted.
- Medium May 24, 2022 Correction verified June 22, 2022
746.701(5): Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk
An incident report was not used to document this prohibit item that was left in a child's bag and brought into the center to be unsafe.
- High November 29, 2021 Correction verified December 13, 2021
746.1203(4): Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children
Based upon information gathered and interviews conducted supervision was determined to have occurred after a three-year child was found in the kitchen unsupervised.
- Medium November 29, 2021 Correction verified December 3, 2021
746.701(5): Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk
Based upon information gathered as a result of this investigation and interviews conducted it was determined a Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form 7239 was not available for review.
- Medium November 29, 2021 Correction verified December 3, 2021
746.707: Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
Based upon information gathered as a result of this investigation and interviews conducted it was determined that the operation failed to share an incident report for a parent signature of the incident.
- Medium High November 29, 2021 Correction verified December 13, 2021
746.307(b)(4): Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
Based upon information gathered as a result of this investigation and interviews conducted it was determined that the operation failed to immediately notify the parent on the situation that placed the child at risk.
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About this record
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