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San Antonio · Bilingual · Licensed centre

Child care that fits a working week.

Six weeks to twelve years, open 6:00 am to 6:30 pm, meals included, CCS subsidy accepted. Tuition and ratios are published on this site, and the availability board is the first thing on the page — because those are the three things you actually came here to find out.

  • Mon–Fri, 6:00 am – 6:30 pm
  • $58 – $255 a week
  • CCS accepted
  • Ratios at or better than the Texas minimum
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We answer in English or Spanish, whichever you prefer.

What is open right now

Availability last checked: September 2, 2026

  • Infants6 weeks – 17 months

    Full

    Waitlist only. Next expected opening: November.

  • Toddlers18 months – 2 years

    Open

    Two places open now.

  • Preschool3 years

    Open

    Places open now.

  • Pre-K4 – 5 years

    Waitlist

    Waitlist — three families ahead. Places usually open in August.

  • School-age5 – 12 years

    Open

    Places open on all five bus routes.

Ask about a place

Illustrative for this demonstration site. On a live site this board is set by hand by the director, and it is dated so you can see how stale it is.

Parents walking children to the entrance of Bright Start Learning Centre in early morning light
Drop-off, a little after six. The infant room is fully staffed before the first family arrives.

How the day actually works

The parts of a childcare centre that a working parent has to trust.

  • Meals are included, and they are cooked here

    Meals are included, and they are cooked here

    Breakfast, lunch and two snacks every day at no extra charge, from a nut-free kitchen on site. Allergy substitutions are written into the menu, not improvised at the counter.

  • 5 school routes, morning and afternoon

    5 school routes, morning and afternoon

    Our own vehicles, a certified driver and a second adult on board, and a name-by-name headcount getting on and getting off. School holidays and early-release days are covered at no extra charge.

  • Keypad entry, and a pick-up list with no exceptions

    Keypad entry, and a pick-up list with no exceptions

    Only an adult named on your authorised list collects your child, with photo ID, every time — including people we know well, and including a parent who is not on the list.

  • Ratios, training and records you can check

    Ratios, training and records you can check

    We staff at or better than the Texas minimum in every room. Every employee holds a current criminal history and central registry background check, and Texas publishes our inspection record for anyone to read.

Check us on the state’s public search

Five rooms

Pick your child’s age. Flip the card for hours, ratio and cost.

Every card turns over to show the schedule, our ratio next to the Texas minimum, the weekly rate and what is included. Nothing is behind a phone call.

The infants room at Bright Start

Full

Infants

6 weeks – 17 months

Two caregivers, eight babies, one room they stay in all day. Bottles, naps and nappies on your baby’s schedule, not ours.

$255 per week

Infants

Hours
6:00 am – 6:30 pm
Our ratio
1:4Texas min. 1:4 (0–11 months) · 1:5 (12–17 months)
Group size
8Texas max. 10 · 13
Weekly cost
Five days a week: $255Three days a week: $175Two days a week: $130

Included

  • Formula prepared from your labelled bottles, or your expressed milk stored and warmed to your written instructions
  • Nappies and wipes if you would rather not bring them (add $12 a week)
Full details
The toddlers room at Bright Start

Open

Toddlers

18 months – 2 years

The busiest room in the building. Two teachers, fourteen toddlers, and a schedule built around moving, eating and sleeping.

$235 per week

Toddlers

Hours
6:00 am – 6:30 pm
Our ratio
1:7Texas min. 1:9 (18–23 months) · 1:11 (2 years)
Group size
14Texas max. 18 · 22
Weekly cost
Five days a week: $235Three days a week: $162Two days a week: $122

Included

  • Breakfast, lunch and two snacks, included in tuition
  • Toilet learning on your child’s timeline, in step with what you are doing at home
Full details
The preschool room at Bright Start

Open

Preschool

3 years

Letters, numbers and how to take turns — taught in two languages by teachers who use both.

$205 per week

Preschool

Hours
6:00 am – 6:30 pm
Our ratio
1:11Texas min. 1:15
Group size
20Texas max. 30
Weekly cost
Five days a week: $205Three days a week: $142Two days a week: $108

Included

  • Breakfast, lunch and two snacks, included
  • A bilingual day: story time and circle happen in both English and Spanish
Full details
The pre-k room at Bright Start

Waitlist

Pre-K

4 – 5 years

The year before kindergarten. Names, sounds, scissors, and sitting still long enough to finish something.

$195 per week

Pre-K

Hours
6:00 am – 6:30 pm
Our ratio
1:14Texas min. 1:18 (4 years) · 1:22 (5 years)
Group size
22Texas max. 35 · 44
Weekly cost
Five days a week: $195Three days a week: $136Two days a week: $104

Included

  • Writing their own first and last name
  • Letter sounds, rhyme and syllable clapping in both languages
Full details
The school-age room at Bright Start

Open

School-age

5 – 12 years

Bus to school in the morning, bus back at 3:30, homework done before you get here.

$105 per week

School-age

Hours
Before 6:00–7:55 am · After 3:20–6:30 pm · Full days on school holidays
Our ratio
1:18Texas min. 1:22 (5 years) · 1:26 (6–13 years)
Group size
26Texas max. 44 · 52
Weekly cost
Before and after school: $105After school only: $78Before school only: $58

Included

  • Morning and afternoon transport on five routes, in our own vehicles with a certified driver and a second adult
  • Breakfast before the bus and a hot snack after school
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The decision path

Age, schedule, cost, subsidy, enrolment.

This is the order the decision actually happens in, with a real number on every rung. Nothing on this ladder requires a phone call to find out.

  1. Start with your child’s age

    The age band decides the room, the ratio and the price. Nothing else about your week changes it.

    5 rooms · 6 weeks to 12 years

    Go to this step

  2. Pick the schedule that fits your shift

    Five, three or two days a week. Any hours you like inside 6:00 am to 6:30 pm — we do not charge by the hour.

    12.5 hours a day, one price

    Go to this step

  3. Read the weekly cost

    Every rate is published. Meals, materials and school-holiday cover are already in it.

    $58 – $255 a week

    Weekly tuition, every room and schedule
    RoomFive days a weekThree days a weekTwo days a week
    Infants6 weeks – 17 months$255$175$130
    Toddlers18 months – 2 years$235$162$122
    Preschool3 years$205$142$108
    Pre-K4 – 5 years$195$136$104
    School-age5 – 12 years$105Before and after school$78After school only$58Before school only
    Go to this step

  4. Check whether CCS covers part of it

    Texas child care subsidy pays most of the cost for families who qualify. We accept it, and we will help you apply.

    Parent share capped at 7% of income

    Go to this step

  5. See what is actually open

    Room by room, with the date we last checked. If it is full we tell you that, and roughly when it will not be.

    Updated by hand, not guessed

    Go to this step

  6. Enrol

    A tour, a form, an immunisation record and a start date. Most families finish in under a week.

    4 steps · about 45 minutes of paperwork

    Go to this step

Weekly cost estimator

What would our week actually cost?

The seventh thing we built instead of a cursor effect. Pick a room and a schedule and read the number. Nothing is sent anywhere and no email is asked for.

Read the full rate table instead

First child
Schedule
Optional: check the subsidy cap
Nothing is stored or sent. This only works out the federal 7% cap for comparison.

Estimated weekly total

$235 a week

About $1,018 a month

How that is made up

  • Toddlers$235

Plus a one-off $75 registration fee per child, per year.

How CCS works and how to apply

childcare.texas.gov

Working-parent notes

Tagged with the schedule that family runs.

Not stars. The thing you are actually checking is whether anyone here has your week — a 7 am shift, an after-school gap, three days and a subsidy.

  • Full-time infant · 5 days

    I start at seven. They open at six and the infant room is actually staffed at six, not one person watching the front. That is the whole reason we are here.

    Yolanda R.Nurse, 7 am shift

  • After school + summer · 2 children

    The homework hour is real. My son does not walk in the door at seven with a folder full of nothing. And school holidays are covered, which nobody else on my list did without charging extra.

    Marcus T.Warehouse supervisor

  • Toddler · 3 days a week, with CCS

    Ms. Vásquez sat with me for forty minutes and helped me fill in the CCS application. She did not tell me to go figure it out. I got approved in six weeks.

    Brenda M.Studying, part-time job

  • Pre-K · 5 days, then kindergarten

    She walked into kindergarten writing her whole name and switching between English and Spanish without thinking about it. The May summary they gave us went straight to her teacher.

    Alicia & Jorge C.Both parents work rotating shifts

  • Preschool · 5 days · food allergy

    Peanut allergy. His card is on the kitchen wall, his EpiPen is in the room not the office, and every substitute teacher knows before they walk in. I stopped worrying about lunch in the first month.

    Denise W.Single parent, office job

  • Before school only · 1 child

    Fifty-eight dollars a week so I can be at work before seven. Breakfast, and the bus takes him. That is the cheapest problem I have solved in years.

    Sandra P.Hospital, 6:45 am start

Illustrative for this demonstration site. There is no star rating and no aggregate score anywhere on this site, because an invented average is a specific kind of lie.

Questions parents ask

The six that come up first.

What time do you open and close?

Bright Start is open Monday to Friday, 6:00 am to 6:30 pm, and closed at weekends. There is no early-drop or late-stay surcharge inside those hours — one price covers the day, whether your child is here for six hours or twelve. After 6:30 pm we charge $1 a minute, which exists to protect our staff’s evenings rather than to make money.

How much does it cost?

Weekly tuition at Bright Start runs from $58 for before-school care to $255 for full-time infant care, and every rate is published on the schedules and tuition page. Meals, snacks, materials and school-holiday cover are included. The only extra charges are a $75 registration fee once a year, optional nappies at $12 a week, and late pick-up.

Do you accept CCS, the Texas child care subsidy?

Yes. Bright Start accepts Child Care Services (CCS), the subsidy programme funded by the Texas Workforce Commission and administered in Bexar County by Workforce Solutions Alamo. If you are approved, the board pays the provider directly and your family pays a parent share of cost set on a sliding scale — federal rules cap that share at 7% of household income. You apply through the local board, not through us, but we will sit down with you and help you fill it in.

What are your staff-to-child ratios?

We staff at or better than the Texas minimum in every room: 1:4 with infants, 1:7 with toddlers, 1:11 in preschool, 1:14 in Pre-K and 1:18 with school-age children. Texas would allow 1:9 for eighteen-month-olds and 1:18 for four-year-olds. The full state table, alongside ours, is on the safety and licensing page — and you can check any Texas centre’s standards and inspection history yourself at the state’s public search.

Who is allowed to collect my child?

Only an adult named on your authorised pick-up list, and only with photo identification, every time, including people we know well. You can add or remove names in writing at any time. We will not release a child to an adult who is not on the list — including a parent — and if a court order restricts contact we need a copy on file. If we have a genuine concern about someone’s ability to drive, we will call another authorised adult, and we will not make that a negotiation at the door.

Do you collect from my child’s school?

We run morning and afternoon routes to five nearby elementary campuses in our own vehicles, with a certified driver and a second adult on board, and a name-by-name headcount on and off. If your school is not on the list, call us — if there are enough families we will look at adding a route.

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Notes for parents

Written to be useful, not to rank.

  • Texas child care ratios, explained

    Texas child care ratios, explained

    Texas sets a minimum caregiver-to-child ratio and a maximum group size for every age band — 1:4 for babies under a year, 1:11 for two-year-olds, 1:18 for four-year-olds. They are minimums, not targets, and a centre is allowed to sit exactly on them all day.

  • How to apply for CCS child care assistance in Bexar County

    How to apply for CCS child care assistance in Bexar County

    Child Care Services (CCS) is Texas’s child care subsidy, funded by the Texas Workforce Commission and run locally by your workforce board — in Bexar County, Workforce Solutions Alamo. If you are approved, the board pays your provider directly and you pay a share of the cost, capped at 7% of your household income.

  • Getting ready for kindergarten: what actually matters

    Getting ready for kindergarten: what actually matters

    Kindergarten readiness is mostly not academic. A child who can sit for fifteen minutes, follow a two-step instruction, manage a zip and a lunchbox, and separate from you without a scene will have an easier September than a child who can already read.

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Come and see the room your child would be in.

No appointment needed. Come during the day when the rooms are full, ask what the ratio is right now, and take the answer with you.

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