Small Steps Nurturing Center-5th Ward
Licensed Center in Houston, Texas. License #864420, issued December 20, 2006.
- Address
- 2902 Jensen Dr, Houston, TX 77026
- Phone
- (713) 236-0330
- Licensed capacity
- 189 children
- Licensed for
- Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 08:00 AM-05:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- swww.ssnc.org
Programs listed with the state: Accredited, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.
The state records conditions on this permit . What these mean.
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 4,040 standards at Small Steps Nurturing Center-5th Ward between January 6, 2022 and September 10, 2026 and recorded 18 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 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 4 | 432 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 442 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 4 | 216 | 0 |
| Activities | 2 | 68 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 74 | 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 | 5 | 376 | 3 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 224 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 1 |
| Transportation | 3 | 132 | 3 |
The table adds up to 4,010 of those standards. The remaining 30, including 11 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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Tell me about new inspections
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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 25 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on September 10, 2026, and 18 citations.
3 of those visits began with Small Steps Nurturing Center-5th Ward 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.
- 10High
- 6Medium High
- 2Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 18. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High August 25, 2026 Correction verified August 31, 2026
746.5617(a)(2): Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information
12 children transported were missing the Emergency Medical Authorization forms in the van.
- Medium High August 25, 2026 Correction verified August 28, 2026
746.3819: Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional
2 children with a diagsnosed food allergy were missing medication that the health care provider says needs to be part of the plan.
- Medium May 20, 2026 Correction verified May 22, 2026
746.203(2): Liability Insurance Requirements - Provide Proof of Coverage Annually by Anniversary Date of Issuance
The policy on file that was documented on 10/16/24 had expired on 9/19/25. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the director entered the updated policy in the on line provider portal account.
- High April 1, 2026 Correction verified April 8, 2026
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
A self-report by the operation was made that a child was left unsupervised in the hallway for a minute.
- Medium November 12, 2025 Correction verified November 14, 2025
746.707: Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
The operation did not complete an incident report or share the report with the parent within 48 hours of the incident.
- High November 10, 2025 Correction verified December 3, 2025
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
One child was left unsupervised in the classroom for several minutes.
- Medium High October 22, 2025 Correction verified October 29, 2025
746.3701(10): Safety - Televisions Anchored to Prevent Tip Over
Two tv monitors in 2 classrooms were unfastended to the children's bookshelf, posing as a tipping hazard.
- Medium High October 22, 2025 Correction verified November 6, 2025
746.3819: Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional
4 out of 6 children with diagnosed food allergies did not have a complete and current food allergy emergency plan. 1 kid is missing Benadryl, 2 kids had expired epi-pens, 1 kid missing medication and authorization form.
- High November 13, 2024 Correction verified November 18, 2024
746.5617(a)(2): Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information
The transportation binder is missing Emergency medical transport and treatment authorization forms for 3 children being transported.
- Medium High November 13, 2024 Corrected at inspection
746.3805(b)(1): Administering Medication - Original Container with Child's Name, Date
8 medications did not have the date received written on the container. Note; this was corrected at inspection when the director wrote on each medication the date it was received from the parent.
- Medium High November 13, 2024 Correction verified November 18, 2024
746.5202(1): Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down procedures
The Emergency Prepardeness Plan is missing the address of the alternate shelter away from the center.
- High October 16, 2024 Correction verified October 22, 2024
745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
2 student volunteers, 1 caregiver and 1 contract vendor were with children without approved background checks.
- High October 14, 2024 Correction verified November 13, 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
- Medium High December 5, 2023 Correction verified December 5, 2023
746.1316(a): Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually
The director did not have current transportation training, the last training was taken in 2021.
- High October 12, 2023 Correction verified December 5, 2023
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
It was determined that a child was left alone for approximately five minutes.
- High September 30, 2022 Correction verified October 28, 2022
746.1203(4): Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children
Caregivers left a child on the outside patio of the classroom.
- High January 6, 2022 Corrected at inspection
746.5617(a)(2): Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information
During review of transportation the operation was found to not have emergency medical information on van used to transport children. This was corrected when the director updated the transportation binder.
- High January 6, 2022 Corrected at inspection
746.3407(12): Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children
During the walkthrough I observed four buckets of disinfectant wipes and spray bottles with cleaning solution in the reach of children. This was corrected when the director removed the buckets and placed the bottles out of reach.
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About this record
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