Tinker Haus Early Learning Depot
Licensed Center in New Braunfels, Texas. License #1786382, issued February 7, 2024.
- Address
- 961 W County Line Rd, New Braunfels, TX 78130
- Phone
- (830) 312-7155
- Licensed capacity
- 107 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:00 AM-05:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- tinkerhausnb.com
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, 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
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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 4,163 standards at Tinker Haus Early Learning Depot between September 19, 2023 and July 28, 2026 and recorded 11 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 | 360 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 336 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 467 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 108 | 0 |
| Infants | 4 | 360 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 57 | 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 | 135 | 0 |
| Health practices | 4 | 452 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 4 | 310 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 225 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 84 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 202 | 0 |
| Transportation | 4 | 196 | 0 |
The table adds up to 4,117 of those standards. The remaining 46, 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.
What Tinker Haus Early Learning Depot says about itself
Tinker Haus Early Learning Depot, serving the New Braunfels community with Preschool for Infant through 5 years.
Quoted from tinkerhausnb.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
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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 27 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on August 10, 2026, and 11 citations.
One of those visits began with Tinker Haus Early Learning Depot 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
- 4Medium High
- 1Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 11. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium December 17, 2025 Correction verified January 29, 2026
746.707: Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
An incident report was not completed at the time of the incident.
- High December 17, 2025 Correction verified January 29, 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
Two staff did not conduct a name to face while lining the children up to go outside while in the room before opening the door and when outside on the porch area to ensure all children were accounted for before going out on the playground. This resulted in a child being left inside the classroom unsupervised for an undetermined amount of time.
- High December 17, 2025 Correction verified January 29, 2026
746.305(a)(6): Report Situation Placing Children at Risk
The operation did not notify Child Care Regulation when a child was unsupervised for an unknown amount of time in the classroom. The camera was reviewed by the director when the incident occurred, and the child was seen playing in the classroom under no distress.
- High December 17, 2025 Correction verified January 29, 2026
746.307(b)(4): Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
The operation did not inform a parent immediately when a child was left in the classroom for an undetermined amount of time.
- High August 19, 2025 Correction verified September 2, 2025
746.2426(a)(1): Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device
A six month old was observed sleeping in a swing which is a restrictive device upon entering the room. This was corrected when the director moved the infant out of the device.
- Medium High August 19, 2025 Correction verified September 2, 2025
746.3317(6): Food Service and Preparation Requirement - Use Sanitary Holders
The 12-15 month room was observed serving food on a bare group table setting with no individual plates/bowls.
- Medium High August 12, 2025 Correction verified October 7, 2025
746.2419(6): Requirements for Feeding Infants - Label Bottles/Cups
During the course of the investigation, it was determined that all bottles and cups were properly labeled. However, a caregiver failed to ensure that the correct bottle was given to the right child, resulting in an infant being fed another child's mother's breastmilk. Note: This caregiver is no longer employed.
- High February 28, 2025 Correction verified March 31, 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
Operation staff did not do a name to face count or a sweep of the playground when transitioning from outdoor play to indoors, resulting in a child being left unattended on the playground for approximately 9 minutes. The operation terminated the caregivers responsible for the incident.
- High February 11, 2025 Correction verified February 24, 2025
746.1205(a)(2): Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for
At the time of inspection, the caregivers in the infant room did not know how many children were in their care. She stated there were 7 in care when there was 8.
- Medium High February 11, 2025 Corrected at inspection
746.2419(6): Requirements for Feeding Infants - Label Bottles/Cups
A few bottles were missing the first name last initial. This was corrected when the bottles were labeled.
- Medium High July 29, 2024 Corrected at inspection
746.3701: Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
A pair of scissors was found on the diaper changing table accessible to children. This was corrected when the scissor was put away.
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About this record
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